I was at Carowinds Thursday afternoon, my first trip there since about 1996. I found the park to be very pleasant, and most of the employees were genuinely nice, even if a couple seemed a bit uninformed. I got a laugh out of a young man working on Thunder Road. I told him as we were waiting to board that I remember well riding Thunder Road the year that it was built, to which I got a very shocked look. After the ride, as I was getting out of the train he asked me if the ride has changed much in all those years, to which I replied that it actually had not but that I definitely had! I still enjoyed Thunder Road immensely, but the cars seemed a lot smaller than they did 'way back when...
I only stayed in the park about two hours, and frankly I did not see a great deal of it, but I liked what I saw. Very clean, with a well-kept appearance. Since I had not been there for a number of years (over a decade!), it was very different than I remembered, but still an extremely nice park. I'm glad I didn't stay long enough to have to eat while there...the prices were shocking for food and beverages! :angry:
