Midwest coaster trip. Part #1 Holiday World

This year for our annual June coaster trip we decided to hit some parks in the Midwest. With so many parks to choose from, time and money played a huge role in determining what parks to attend. The earliest we could leave was 2:00 am early Saturday morning on June 9th and had to be home at 3:00 pm Thursday afternoon June 14th. I also had a $2,000 budget, we still need to hit Hershey, Canadas Wonderland, and few smaller parks this year. So 3 of my kids and I packed up the minivan, played Holiday Road, and headed west.
We arrived at Holiday World at 9:00 central time. It gave us a half hour to park, buy our tickets and wait for the rope drop. Now usually I will not attend a park on a Saturday, but we really didn't have much of a choice. The park was very crowded in the morning. This was my 4th time at Holiday World, it was the kids' first time. So we made The Raven our first ride.
We took a front seat ride for the first ride of the trip. Later on we rode the back seat twice. The Raven is running good. It's been very consistent in the Times that I visited HW. We all agreed that the back seat was much better than the front. The one thing that has always impressed about The Raven is the speed it carries all the way to the end. That's pretty unusual for a coaster that size. We all really enjoyed it.
Next was a front seat ride on The Legend; we added another front seat ride later on in the day. These were the best 2 rides I have gotten on The Legend. The laterals were incredible. The one air time hill was great. The coaster was running so aggressive, I couldn't believe it was The Legend. All 3 kids loved it, even more than The Voyage. That's how good it was running. I still have The Voyage way in front, but The Legend climbed way up my wooden coaster list after those 2 rides.
Now it was time for The Voyage. We grabbed front seat for our first ride. We rode the front one more time and the back seat 4 times, for a total of 6 rides. The Voyage is running great. Now at the very end, the last few turns, it is starting to get jerky. They will have to address that in the near future. If it does get any worse, they'll start to hear the complaints. The first hill, second hill, third hill, the spaghetti bowl, the triple down, and everything before the very end, is silky smooth, lightning fast, and air time filled. It's running great. The back seat was coaster heaven for me.
As the day went on the lines got shorter. Not only did we ride the coasters but we got to enjoy some of the flats. We rode Turkey Wirl, which is a Tilt a Wirl, but the cars are in a shape of a turkey. Gobbler Getaway is a fun house, shoot em up ride. Revolution, which is a Round Up type ride. We also rode Eagles Flight. I love those flyer type rides.
We did not do the water park, but we did ride Pilgrims Plunge once and the kids rode Raging Rapids. The kids also got a credit on The Howler kiddie coaster.
All in all it was a great day. All 3 kids loved the park. We left the park at 6:00pm, drove to Mount Vernon IL, and got some sleep.