Wildwood is one of NJ's best beach resorts. It's the best beach I've ever been too plus the boardwalk and Morey's Piers add to that. Many people from NJ, Pennsylvania, and Quebec vacation in Wildwood and my family's been doing it for a long time.
Here was the view from my room.
Vekoma boomerang SeaSerpent and Giant wheel
"It" KMG Fireball which has tons of great airtime in the right seats. My cousins are next to me.
Great White. Some airtime in the back on the drop and bunny hops but not a lot.
The Great Nor'easter, my favorite thing here even though it's just an SLC. It does have smoother trains though!
I'm on the left with black hair so you can remember.
Other than these rides I also went on many more fair type rides with a 140ft drop tower, and KMG Move It 24.
On July 4th I went to Coney Island to see the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest in person. I left Wildwood with just my father and brother just after 7 o'clock and drove 150 miles North racing against Hurricane Arthur which we were able to hold of. It took only 2 hours flat, much faster than I would ever have anticipated. We were in the crowd by 10:15 waiting for the Women's contest which was first at 11:15.
2hrs and 22 minutes to go with some ThunderBolt zero g roll. I never expected to get so close, it was great.
The entertainment before the contest every year is always horrible, it's a complete joke. Miki Sudo became women's champion defeating Sonya Thomas with a horrible 34 hot dogs when it was barely raining, just a few drops. The horrible woman have no excuse especially after qualifying with 40 hot dogs.
After this, Joey Chestnut made a surprise proposal to his girlfriend.
It was to hard to take pictures of the actual contests because that's what everyone was trying to do at the same time + the umbrellas. It started raining right before the mens contest but started to decrease during it. I was surprised by the high numbers in the bad weather but even more surprised by Matt Stonie when he was beating Joey Chestnut with 2 and a half minutes to go, even though he really wasn't because he was deducted 2 hot dogs at the end anyway.
It was the most exciting eating contest I've ever seen in person. Here's Joey after wining for the 8th consecutive year with 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
And in case your actually interested, here is full contest footage. I'm in the crowd with my dad at 8:41 of the video on the right side of the screen wearing a white poncho. It's hard to tell that it's even raining besides the drops that are on the camera.
After this I went on ThunderBolt for the first time which was $10 a person!!! It was still mildly raining at the time and it hurt me like hell. You could not even open your eyes. I sat in the front which was a mistake because of the rain but it was still very enjoyable. The drop and bunny hills had great airtime while the loop, zero g roll and turnaround inversion thing had sick hang time. It was very rough though. Even though it could be better than some eurofighters if I had to buy either one I would choose a eurofighter because they provide a safe thrill instead of a cheap, rough, dangerous thrill. ThunderBolt is a cheap, dangerous thrill because of the lap bars where the rubber is movable and can tilt up and down, this is while the lap bar is far down on your thigh toward your knee which is the only reason why the hang time is so good.
After this I went to my first ever Nathan's drive through and got 2 hot dogs for lunch. Then went back to Wildwood for the second half of my vacation.
The last thing I have to show from my Wildwood vacation is my first ever restaurant challenge. It was a cheeseburger with 2 lbs of beef, with fries and a pickle. There was no time limit which I thought was crazy. It took me less than 20 minutes to eat it anyway. It was very easy except for the flavor because it tasted awful. It was a ridiculous $20 but I did get the free shirt for finishing.
I will post my KD and KI/CP trips another day because I'm too distracted by people right now.
