Negative-G - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 2024 Page One

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Tampa, Florida
August 5, 2024
Page One

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We had the most perfect long Florida weekend planned. Carrie, Bond, Dru, and myself flew down to Tampa on a Thursday. Friday and Saturday was to be spent with family celebrating my Stepfathers 70th birthday. Sunday we were going to head back down to Tampa to stay at a beach resort. Monday Bond and I would head to Busch Gardens for a day. Finally on Tuesday we would fly back home.

The plans were perfect...before Hurricane Debby decided to crash the party.

Needless to say we got the full Florida treatment during our long weekend. We got to see swamps, beaches, had amazing food, partied with family, got to experience a hurricane from the beach (our resort was not evacuated), and on Monday right after the storm Bond and I headed to Busch Gardens for what we hoped would be a day filled with lots of rides.

We didn't get the call that Busch Gardens was going to open until noon so we didn't arrive until one.

With most of the rides down due to a recent line of thunderstorms when we arrived Bond and I worked our way around to Shekra as my boy was keen to add that ride to his count due to it being down for maintenance during his last visit here.

Despite a ton of rain and hurricane force winds Busch Gardens looked amazing like Debbie had never happened.