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We’ve Celebrated Summer with the Indianapolis Indians

Come Celebrate Summer with the Indianapolis Indians

Our family has gone to more Indianapolis Indians games this season than I think we have every other season combined perhaps. This week, we attended three games and enjoyed every one of them, even though the Indians lost two of them closely to the Columbus Clippers. Our first game this week was on Tuesday night, the Indians trailed the entire game. Then, in the last inning with two outs, the Indians pulled together a string of hits to tie the game and force extra innings. They eventually rallied to win the game. Many fans left early. It was kind of chilly and breezy all evening and thinking it was over, the ballpark had almost emptied. My family and I hung around. For me, for a variety of reasons, the least of which wasn’t the fact that if I go to an event like this, I stay until the last out, the final minute, the ending bell.

We’ve taken advantage of the Knot Hole Kids Club, so that our kids get in free or we upgrade their seats to box seats for a small price. By taking advantage of this and other ticket deals like 2-for-1 Tuesdays with McAlister’s and other ticket promos, it makes for a good 3-4 hours together as a family and lots of fun at an absolutely gorgeous Victory Field ballpark.

We’ve been laughing a bit amongst ourselves though because as much as we love the Indians, it appears we just can’t get any love from them! They do a Twitter photo promo during the game where you send a picture of yourself having fun at the Indians game and tweet it to their Twitter account @IndyIndians with the hashtag #ComeCelebrateSummer. We do this every game and we’ve yet to get our photo on the big screen! Apparently my face is just too hideous to be enlarged onto the jumbotron. Here are a couple of the photos we’ve posted that haven’t been chosen.

 

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The New Gatekeeper Coaster Coming to Cedar Point

Gatekeeper Roller Coaster at Cedar Point

I'm a fan of roller coasters. If I had the funds I would travel to every amusement park there is and try every coaster at least once. If you're a fan of roller coasters like myself, then you're probably aware that Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio is a roller coaster lovers nirvana.

Earlier this week when I received a text from Cedar Point letting me know about a new coaster coming to the park in 2013 I had to check it out. It's called "Gatekeeper" and will be a visual that welcomes park guests into the park as it sails over their heads as they walk through the front gates.

The coaster is almost 4200' long and has 164' drop. It will also have the highest inversion of any other coaster on the planet at 170'. All those numbers add up to a whole-lot-of-fun if you ask me!

After watching the videos below, I then had to also share it with everyone on my blog.

What's your favorite coaster? What's your favorite theme park?