Thursday means Kennywood

Welcome to Kennywood! 

Thursday was a day of disappoinments. Having become all to used to fine eggs and bacon and some light toast with syrup for breakfast, we left our Holiday Inn on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, PA, sure that we would find a welcoming diner in the suburbof West Mifflin where we would also find our fourth park - Kennywood. We drove around for some time and were forced to take refuge at the Golden Arches. An unpopular and desperate choice but one we were forced to make - a theme park does not cater for breakfast. We also discovered one of many clues as to why so many Americans are obese: the healthy option at McDonalds, the apple and walnut salad, somehow contains 13gms of fat!


George ponders Phantom's Revenge 

Still, maybe Kennywood would lift our spirits. It was not to be. Kennywood is a local theme park with a couple of rides worthy of notice. And they are bold efforts. The designer used the steep cliffs above the Ohio river to create a couple of heart-stopping drops but these are small beer in a disappointing park which is in dire need of a revamp and general re-thinking. The management have made one attempt to modernise with the addition of 'Garfield's Nightmare' which is a puerile effort mainly for Garfield fans. Furthermore, our estimation of our fellow coaster enthusiasts took a dive at Kennywood. We had a nasty suspicion that it was incest day at the park as we seemed to be the only customers who were not offspring of a brother and a sister.


The root cause of obesity 

So we left Kennywood feeling downcast but our spirits were soon raised by three happy thoughts: retail therapy at Grove Park Outlet City (main puchases: timberland shoes, polo shirts, shorts from GAP), we were about to enter a new state and the fact that on Friday we would be visiting the grandaddy of them all, the greatest theme park in the world. Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio.


The day comes to an abrupt end after experiencing King Kahuna