This was taken at a place most of you know- Cedar Point. Despite the fact I am an avid roller coaster rider/lover, sometimes even I scream with pure terror while on a particularly breathtaking ride. It just so happens this was taken on Magnum, a ride which, I thought at the time, was a lazy little kiddie coaster. Why did I come to this conclusion, you ask? Because, being the coaster aficionado that I am, I saw small lapbelt, the man wearing his hat on the ride (a big no no for intense coasters unless you really hate the hat and want to lose it) and the apparently small circle of tracks followed by the smallest drop ever. So, I get on the ride with the assumption I'm in for a relaxing 2 minutes.

Then the ride started. We went around the circle, as slow as I thought it would be. We went over the tiny drop. Yawn. And then suddenly we were going up- slowly, yes, but much higher and higher and then...we came to the realization that this was a bit more than we had bargained for. I tore my sunglasses off and managed to stuff them into my pocket before we tore down the rather steep drop and zoomed off for a breathless minute ride, tearing up and town, around, and even into a few tunnels. Right before said tunnel was the official spot of the picture.

Now, to explain the face...scary roller coasters just down frighten me. Unless you happen to be blindsighted, in which case catching your breath is impossible. I was screaming, gasping for breath, and screaming again, to the point where my scream was noiseless. It was in the middle of that breathless scream that this picture was taken.