• 28Nov 08

  Went to Six Flags: Magic Mountain AGAIN!!!

  Ok so this is like two or three years from my last Six flags trip and this year it was on Thanksgiving so there were hardly any people there, go figure, is everyone at home eating!?

  I woke up at 5AM and was picked up by three friends (that I don't even know that well) and we met with 5 other firends (didn't know them much either) at someones house and left to six flags in two cars at 6 in the morning. Leaving from San Diego it took about 3 hours but we did stop at a restaurant for about an hour and ate waffles...and good waffles they were.If I didn't have to listen to Fallout Boy or Metro Station I would say the ride was enjoyable.

  The park opened at 1030 and we were there at the front of the gates,...it wasn't difficult. When we got there we quickly found other people we knew and met up with some other groups of friends that came from San Diego as well. Throughout the day are humble group of nine people at one point reached over thirty friends, both locals and out of town. There were more people we knew but I think that was the most in the same place at one point. No, I didn't take pictures, someone else did but if I get my hands on the copies I will try to post them.

  Our group semi-leader Ivan (our driver too) was able to keep us pretty organized amidst the very frequent friend encounters. Our objective of course was to ride all the rides. We met that goal minus a few rides like Deja Vu and Superman because they were closed for the day. The lines were very short and for most rides we were able to stay on them a few times. We went towards Goliath first because everyone runs to X2 since its new upgrades - It has gigantic flamethrowers that go off during the ride!!! There is also something very special that happened during X2 but I will save that for another time cause it is completely off the subject but it has got me really excited.

  Anyways, Afterwards our group and a few others went out to eat at the local Denny's (only place open on thanksgiving where they serve you.) and just talked and instead of eating waffles I had French Toast. 

  The ride home wasn't very interesting, Ivan threatened that if we didn't stay awake to keep him from getting sleepy he would open all the windows. None of us wanted that but we all fell asleep anyways. We arrived home with all windows thankfully still up and I crashed on my bed knowing that was one of the best days on my life, though I probably said the same thing about the last trip too.

   

  • Posted Nov 28, 2008 9:24 pm PT
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• 29Jul 08

  Xam'd Review

  I just recently watched the first two episodes of this new anime because I was curious as to what type of anime could possibly make a debut on the Playstation Network. I watched it in HD and much to my surprise it exceed my already high expectations, at least the first episode did. The second episode while still good, felt weird with many things going on at once and I thought the animation quality dropped a little compared to the first episode.
  
  I was impressed with the characters thankfully due to the amazing animation and good dialogue. The main character, Akiyuki, is a pretty normal guy due to having good parents (That doesn't happen very often in Anime). They are however going through a divorce which has added a nice touch to the show. I'm sure it will be more important down the line.
  
  Akiyuki has two friends that go to the same school. The first is a girl named Haru and the other is a guy whose name I can't remember. Both these friends do some kind of martial arts training, Haru being the better of the two. GIRL POWER, lol.
  
  The first episode is meant to be somewhat mysterious so I want spoil anything. The bottom line is: The first episode is really good, but the series is a bit geared more towards the male crowd, but not by much. I'll keep track of this show as best I can to see if its worth watching all the way through.

  • Posted Jul 29, 2008 8:54 am PT
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• 1Dec 05

  Six Flags: Magic Mountain

  I went to Six Flags: Magic Mountain on November 12 so it took me a while to write about it. I'll try to sum most of it up.
  
  It was a typical Saturday morning except I was awake at three o'clock in the morning getting ready for the three times postponed trip to Six Flags: Magic Mountain. I went with my 2 years younger sister along with 22 other people ( I almost knew everyone there). We split up into five car groups and left for our 3 hour road trip at 6:00 A.M.we went to the Six Flags near Los Angeles. Each car group had a communicator so we messed around with that for like the first twenty minutes of the road trip. I really didn't like the car group I was in because they weren't any of my close friends (actually I wasn't able to bring my friends cause they were scared of roller coasters or had SixFlagsaphobia) anyways, I also couldn't talk to them much because of the extremely loud screaming rock music that a four-teen-year old and a twenty-six-year old seemed to enjoy. Well I lasted those three hours and made it to Six Flags with my full hearing ability, miraculously.
  
  We finally arrived at about 10:00 A.M. due to various stops at fast-food restaurants and bathroom breaks. When we get there we notice that vast amounts of people are already here and probably half of them were on school/club field trips. Well to move things on a bit faster I'll just say that I rode about 6 rides, X (Xperience the Xtreme), Goliath, Viper, Colossus, Spin-Out, and Buccaneer swing. The best ride was of course X but I had to wait in line for 4 HOURS!!! Believe it, the ride was scheduled for maintenance on that day (who knows why they would do that on a Saturday) so it was already a long wait as it was before it broke down while we were in line. I was with about ten other people that I was more familiar with so that the wait wasn't that bad, but no ride, I repeat NO ride is worth a 4 hour wait...the ride lasted about 30 seconds.
  
  At about 9:00 P.M. we left and all went to Carl's Jr. cause Wendy's was packed! Then we went to fill up on gas, and made a few rest stops along the way. It was the same story in the car going back home as it was going to Six Flags, more loud music. Regardless I was able to catch some z's and get back home at about 1:30 A.M. I know I sounded negative but I still had a good time, though it could have been better. I do have pictures but the ones with me in them look bad...go figure.

  If you read that whole thing...wow.

  • Posted Dec 1, 2005 6:41 pm PT
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