Story Land
I'm on vacation this week having fun with Jorie for the week between school and summer day camp. Sam's got a new job and doesn't get any vacation for a while, so it's the two of us. Today, since the weather was likely to be the best of the week, we took an ambitious day trip to Story Land, a kid-oriented amusement park way up near North Conway, NH. It seems to have started out as a small nursery rhyme/fairytale-themed attraction similar to the Story Book Land place in Virginia I remember from my own childhood, then gradually added rides and other stuff.
This was perfect for Jorie. She's at the age in which she'll be equally fond of small roller coasters and meet-and-greet with Cinderella. Other highlights included swan boats kids can steer, a pirate-themed mini-cruise, and a domed area called the Loopy Lab that was basically just full of devices for shooting foam balls in all directions (I did feel like swimming in hand sanitizer afterward, since it unavoidably involves handling these balls that everyone steps on).
The one "credit", as coaster fans call it, was the Polar Coaster, a small Hopkins terrain coaster that basically consists of a series of switchbacks down a hillside and a single helix. For thrills I would probably place it below Hersheypark's Trailblazer (though above the Dragon at Canobie), but Jorie declared it her new favorite and we rode it three times, front seat, middle and rear seat. Anything that has an actual chain lift is the big time as far as she's concerned. It does make nice use of the existing hill.
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This was perfect for Jorie. She's at the age in which she'll be equally fond of small roller coasters and meet-and-greet with Cinderella. Other highlights included swan boats kids can steer, a pirate-themed mini-cruise, and a domed area called the Loopy Lab that was basically just full of devices for shooting foam balls in all directions (I did feel like swimming in hand sanitizer afterward, since it unavoidably involves handling these balls that everyone steps on).
The one "credit", as coaster fans call it, was the Polar Coaster, a small Hopkins terrain coaster that basically consists of a series of switchbacks down a hillside and a single helix. For thrills I would probably place it below Hersheypark's Trailblazer (though above the Dragon at Canobie), but Jorie declared it her new favorite and we rode it three times, front seat, middle and rear seat. Anything that has an actual chain lift is the big time as far as she's concerned. It does make nice use of the existing hill.
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