A day at King's Island

Part 12

Mick removed his hat and shook his head. He reached up and squeezed the water out of his ponytail as everyone came up beside him.

"Now what?" Lindsey asked.

"There's one more little log jam between here and the water park." John said. "Anyone wanna go on that?"

"How little?" Stevie asked.

"Well, I can't tell you the exact length from the map, Stevie, but from the looks of it. It's not too long."

"I don't mind if you guys don't mind. I'm wet now so more water won't make a difference, especially if we're going to the water park afterwards."

"You don't mind log jams, Stevie?" Lindsey said. "I thought you didn't like coasters. Log jams have those long, steep drops you know."

"True, but you aren't going as fast as you would on a coaster." Stevie said. "It's the speed you're going that I don't like especially since that little coaster you got me on made my butt go up off the seat."

"That's only on the non-loop ones, Steves." Lindsey said. "Now on the looped ones, they fasten you in, so you don't do that."

"Well, that's nice that they do that, but don't start trying to convince me to go on a looped coaster just because of that."

"I wasn't trying to convince you. I was just explaining the difference."

"Okay...then, just letting you know I'm done with coasters."

"Alright, alright, I understand. No more coasters for you. Sheesh." Lindsey said, rolling his eyes.

Stevie pinched his cheek as Lindsey put his arm around her and they headed off towards the log jam.

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After a fifteen minute wait, all of them quickly got into a narrow log car. Lindsey got in front, followed by Stevie, John and then, Mick. Lindsey grabbed onto a metal loop in front of him as Stevie grabbed him around the middle, John grabbed Stevie and Mick grabbed John. They settled in as the car rounded a bend and went up a hill.

Reaching the top, they went down a very short hill and sped up as they went around a winding pipe.

"Weeeeeeee!" Lindsey said, as they lightly hit the sides of the pipe.

He looked back at John and Mick and grinned.

"If everybody had an ocean across the USA!" he sang. "Then everybody'd be surfing...like Californiiiiiayyyyyyy!"

"Oh God, don't sing." Stevie said, looking up at him.

She sighed as Mick and John joined in on the song as they sped along the pipe.

"I really can do without The Beach Boys karaoke at the moment." Stevie said, shaking her head.

"Hey, we're just trying to get into the mood. It kinda feels like we're surfing the waves at the moment. Doesn't it, guys?"

"Yup!" Mick and John said.

Lindsey grinned at Stevie and leaned down into her face.

"Everybody's gone surfing....Surfing USA!" he sang.

He let out an "Oof" and Stevie giggled as the boat suddenly hit another hill and began to climb higher.

"Thank God, that stopped you." Stevie said.

"I'll start up again when we get up the hill." Lindsey said.

"Oh joy, I can hardly wait!" Stevie said, rolling her eyes.