Day 32: Adventure x 32

As these days have gone on, especially while all the collages were being given, I thought that things got a little boring and predictable. While we were on vacation it was tough to be creative so I wanted to spice things up a little bit. Day 32 was the perfect opportunity. I asked her to take the day off without providing any details as to what we were doing. After breakfast we started our day to conquer 32 different adventures. Kings Dominion was the perfect place!!!

We couldn't have asked for a better day as the skys were mostly overcast, temps in the low 80's, and the park wasn't very crowded at all. I didn't inform her of my plan of 32 adventures right away as I thought that it would be tough to accomplish
in less than ten hours. The day started out perfect for her as immediately when we walked in she saw her true love, and had to get her picture taken with him. While a little soggy about it, Sponge Bob graciously obliged. From there we started hitting the rides and with my phone, I took a picture of every one for documentation if everything worked out. It was looking sort of grim when we walked back out to our car to have a picnic lunch around 2:30 and only had 9 adventures under our belt. I was thinking, how can we possible get in 23 more. It was then that I told her of the plan to accomplish 32 Adventures for Day 32 and that I wasn't sure it was going to work out.

After lunch we came back on a mission!!!! We worked the park like a single man works a dance club, circling to check out everything. Around 8:05 we were both starving and we had 25 adventures in the book. All I could think of is how we were going to get 7 more adventures in and have dinner in 115 minutes. We actually did enjoy our pizza but I also let her know when we were almost finished, that a 40 year old woman wouldn't walk out of the park without completing the task. In her youthful spunk she perked up and said, "lets go, we can do it!!!"

We hit the bumper cars and wouldn't you know it, the line was moving slowly. We finally made it, I got rocked, and we moved on. 26 down...... Quickly, we moved to the Drop Tower again so we could experience it at night (completely different experience). 27 down..... While waiting at the Drop Tower we decided to visit one of her favorite rides, The Richoet. The line wasn't bad, however, time wasn't on our side. 4 to go and only 30 minutes....... We were going to save the Ferris Wheel for last to close our our great day while looking over the neon lit park, but since it was on our way we jumped on for Adventure 29. Unfortunately, we waited for 15 minutes to do it, 3 more and 15 minutes.......We brisked over to the Shockwave which had no line so we still had a shot, 10 minutes, 2 more........ I told her that she could still do it at 40 and we power walked/slight jog over to the Dominator roller coaster. There was a line but we made it in before they closed the gate for the evening. We finished on the ride exactly at closing!!! 31 down.....She thought we ended up one short, however, every great day with my wife ends with a good bowl of ice cream. While unintended, it was an adventure to try and find an open ice cream stand, but with aching feet and tired legs we were determined. A bowl of swirl was found and we had accomplished Adventure 32!!!!

Day 32: Adventure x 32

Friday, August 7, 2009

Only 8 left!!!!!!!!!!!