The day after our trip to Universal Studios, we once more headed for another theme park and this time in the city of Buena Park in Orange County south of Los Angeles. This is to the home of our beloved Charlie Brown and Snoopy of Peanuts in Knott's Berry Farm. I had never been to this park before and so I made sure that it is part of our 2010 tour itinerary. And fortunately, my aunt had free passes for 4 of us for that day.
And so aside from my own family, my mom and sister joined us, as well as Angel and her mom, and my aunt's whole family. We went there with two cars. But then even before we headed to the park that morning, we were already having second thoughts if we should proceed or not. Because like the rainy day ahead, it was also a bit wet that morning.
But since my aunt drove all the way through from San Diego for this and the rain stopped a bit that morning though still wet, we decided to head for it.
The park is huge and it is not easy to find as it is visible from the nearest interstate highway. And with it's classic style roller coaster where the tracks run on wooden planks that surround the park, it is very eye-catching. I remember the first time I saw this park was in 2004 when my parents' brought me to Disneyland and we took a public bus which passed through the park. Disneyland is not too far away from Knott's Berry. And this time we drove to the park.
Knott's Berry has a lot of thrilling rides like roller coasters. Well they had 9 roller coasters in the park. But since the place is mostly wet, we mainly skipped these rides. Though I feel like I wanted to ride some of them, the occasional drizzle discouraged us. But this did not stop my 2 cousins and their dad to try the Silver Bullet. Silver Bullet is the park's suspended coaster which is not like regular coasters that run on rails. For this one, the seats are attached on an overhead rail and your feet dangles freely throught the twists and turns of the ride.
Like other theme parks, Knott's Berry is also divided into different sections. They had this section that looked like the wild west, there is this mountain that depicts a miners' mountain, and they have a steam train running through the center of the park.
They've got very thrilling rides like the Screamin' Swing where a swing swings 360 degrees, Rip Tide where guests sit on a platform that is being swirled 360 degrees while being raised and dropped by a lever, La Revolucion which is like a swing and ferris wheel combined. And among their rides, four were very similar to the rides present in the Enchanted Kingdom in the Philippines. These are the Dragon Swing, Boomerang, Bigfoot Rapids and Timber Mountain Log Ride which are the same as the Anchors Away, Spaceshuttle, Rio Grande Rapids, and Log Jam rides in Enchanted Kingdom.
Well we didn't ride most of them but we took the opportunity to watch the Christmas show in the Snoopy Theatre. The show presented Snoopy and Charlie Brown with the gang in a ice skating show. It was a beautiful show.
And due to the rain, we really have not gone to much of the rides in the park but instead took the time walking around the park while hiding from the rain and take some good pictures. May one day we'll come back here and I hope the weather is a lot better.
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