Canada's Wonderland, Toronto, ON

Canada's Wonderland opens tomorrow.

Canada's Wonderland is Canada's premier theme park and features over 200 attractions, more than 60 thrilling rides, North America's greatest variety of roller coasters, and Splash Works, a 20-acre water park.

Today it was open for employees of the company I work for. We hadn't been in years. It was great because the lines for the rides weren't all that long.

I don't like scary rides. I'm a big chicken! We went on a couple Moderate Thrill Rides:

• Spinovator - In playfully designed, two-seater baskets, Spinovator will spin riders into a twirling frenzy of unstoppable giggles.
• Swings of the Century - Soar through the air on the high-flying Swings of the Century; an attraction ideal for the whole family.

But the Swings scared me! I kept my eyes closed through most of it! Never again! But at least I tried it.

At the end of the Spinovator ride

Gord went on some Aggressive Thrill Rides:

• Drop Zone - Riders sit on a high-speed transport lift that travels over 16 feet per second, 230 feet in the air. At the top of the tower, guests have but moments to take in the panoramic view of the Park before it registers that what goes up must come down. Free falling at more than 100km/h, 23 stories flash by as the ground races up and catches riders in a silent, smooth stop.
• Top Gun - Top Gun is Canada's only inverted looping jet coaster. This mega coaster simulates flight with speeds of 90km/h, exhilarating 90-degree vertical climbs, barrel rolls, inverted wing loopovers, a 270-degree after burn and a complete snap roll over. Riders take flight in a fully open cockpit suspended beneath the coaster's steel track as the sky races below.
• The Mighty Canadian Minebuster - The Mighty Canadian Minebuster is the largest and longest wooden coaster in Canada. Its immense wooden track is full of side-winding turns, stomach lifting camel humps and breath-taking drops. The Minebuster reaches astounding speeds of more than 90km/h on its 4000 feet of serpentine designed track.

I waited in line with him and held his hat when he was on the rides. That was daring enough for me :)

Getting ready on the Drop Zone

Up he goes ...

And there he is ... waaaaaay up at the top!

Getting psyched on Top Gun

And on Minebuster

You'll be screaming in a few seconds!

There is a stream running through the park with thousands of koi trying to swim upstream.

It was a fun day!