3rd Stop: Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jeresy

A multi-faceted visit.

For the previous two stops, we stayed at forgettable cheese-box hotels, due to lack of any reasonable alternatives.  For Six Flags Great Adventure, we had the opportunity to stay someplace fun: the Inn at Laurita Winery in New Egypt, New Jersey.

This is a lovely B&B, and our host Janis Bonavito made us feel right at home, starting with a freshly-made picnic lunch and a suggestion to visit a nearby historical "mill village" called Walnford.  We had our lunch there, featuring Ms. "Don't take my picture, I'm eating:"









The old mill village was quite interesting. Its heyday was the mid-1800's, at which time about 50 people lived and worked there. Patricia found a friend in the mill house.

She was to find more "kitties" the next day.

That evening, we enjoyed pizza and wine at sunset at the local Laurita winery, just down the road from the Inn.

Now it's Saturday, and what are we here for? Roller Coasters!

Batman was a very twisty track. Maybe too twisty. A bit too rough in Gordon's opinion.

We enjoyed Nitro (three times). Superman was fun. This is a ride where you are strapped in and rotated so your body is parallel with the (overhead) track, so you really get a sensation of flying as you whizz around the track.



There is an inversion element that is fantastic.  Just after that is the photo cam, where it caught us having lots of fun as it shot us against the sky.

A surprise to us was a Safari through a wild animal park. We didn't even know they had the animal park there! We found some new friends on the hour-long ride.

More "kitties" (lion cubs!) for P:

But the best was still to come. We had read reviews that called "El Toro" not only the best wooden roller coaster in the country but the best 'coaster of any kind in the country.

The verdict?   IT WAS FANTASTIC!  A perfect combination of a killer drop, speed, many, many radical "airtime" moments, and incredible G-turns. Such a delight we rode it three times.  I think our expressions say it all:

Yet another great roller coaster day.  We will come back to Six Flags Great Adventure again someday!