...all to us!



When it is just the two of us I let Bond choose what we do and where we go as the trip is all about him.  One afternoon (SDC was open from 1-9pm during our visit) when the park opened Bond wanted to camp out on Powder Keg.  When the ropes dropped  we had to keep from getting ran over by scooters speeding down "cardiac hill" before ending up getting Powder Keg all to ourselves.



We didn't have every lap on Powder Keg to ourselves as a few people would join us here and there for a ride before heading elsewhere in the park.  Still it wasn't hard ending up with the train with no one but Bond and myself on it.



I sat off a lap to get a few pictures of Bond on Powder Keg and he ended up with another "Zen ride" on it. 



It is fun riding and having a trainload of friends and screaming people along with you on a coaster but there is something really peaceful just having the only scream that you can hear coming out of your mouth and having a multi-million dollar thrill machine all to yourself.  

Those moments when it is just Bond and myself speeding around, being twisted, inverted and ejected from our seats I can always look at him and see in his eyes how important it is that this time with me is.  Life isn't about money, it isn't about stuff.  It's about how much we mean to each other.  Moments like there are what real wealth is.  It is what I will take with me when I go and it is what Bond will take on with him as he goes on through his life.



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