Europa Park

Today I spent the entire day riding roller coasters with Mark, and it. was. AWESOME.

We went to Europa Park in southern Germany. The whole park’s like a low-budget rip-off of Disney World, complete with a princess parade, a giant Epcot ball with a “Space Mountain”-like ride inside, “Pirates of Batavia,” and — wait for it — even a giant gray mouse (“Euromaus”) as its mascot. But on top of all of that, it also has the extreme high-speed coasters of a park like Six Flags or Busch Gardens. And all for about half the price of Disney World — transportation included!

Today was particularly great because it was a weekday, so the lines were really short. We just kept jumping off and running back around to ride our favorite coasters over and over and over again. We loved the Silver Star best, and rode it four times — amazing, even if it is going to take me hours to detangle my hair!