With the Pennsylvania leg of our big East Coast trip done, it was time to head from Cleveland to New Hampshire. On our layover in Philadelphia, we got to deplane outside!
Then when we landed in New Hampshire, it was only appropriate that we went to the Airport Diner. It’s a tradition!
Waldameer, in Erie, PA, was our last park in Pennsylvania!
This is Comet, one of their five credits…
…and Ravine Flyer II, my favorite coaster there! (Mommy thought it was a concusser.)
And here I am intentionally looking away because I’m being photographed next to a sign.
After we left the park, we looked for a restaurant for dinner, and Daddy sat next to Lisa Simpson for some reason…? Anyway, on to New Hampshire!
Next, we headed to West Mifflin, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh, to go to Kennywood!
We rode both sides of Racer, an amazing woodie…
…an appropriately named flat ride called Whip…
…the super fun Turtle, the last operating ride of its kind…
…and, of course, much much more, including this over-100-year-old wooden coaster, Jack Rabbit. It was very fun, but it’s double down was not as intense as I’d heard.
One of the coolest places we stayed in was the Golden Eagle Inn in Bedford, PA. It was built in 1794! It’s very old and cute and weird.
Knoebels is a family-owned, almost-100-year-old park, and it was fantastic!
The wooden coaster, Phoenix, was amaaaaazing! There was so much air time, I can’t believe I was even allowed to ride that thing.
Here is a video account of all the rides we did. Important note: I said I liked Twister in the beginning of the video, but by the end of the video, I changed my mind. I DO NOT LIKE TWISTER.
After Nana’s birthday party, we went to the playground across the street and had a ton of fun. Buckle up, because you’re about to see lots of play time!
We like picking up food at Oregon City Brewing Company, which we’ve gotten in the habit of calling “Corner 15.” It’s filled with food carts and all outdoors, so it can get cold while we wait for our food! Thankfully, they have FIRE.
Kenji and Sakura were supposed to leave today, but it snowed and got really icy. So we got to keep them for an extra day!
Kenji and Sakura are here! We have so much fun together. And we even got to celebrate the third night of Hanukkah with them!
