Six Flags Great Adventure: New Jersey

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that last Tuesday Josh and I took a day trip to Six Flags in New Jersey. 

I have been to the Six Flags in MD/DC but neither of us have even been to Great Adventure.  Great Adventure is definitely better!  We pretty much only rode roller-coasters because that's what we like.

Unfortunately Kingda Ka (green on in the above picture) was closed because they're doing work on a new ride that will be inside of it (the three orange things you see).  Kingda Ka is the worlds tallest and second fastest roller-coaster, so we were pretty disappointed, but that's OK, we just have to go back!

Our favorite rides were Nitro, Superman, and Batman.  Nitro was definitely my favorite of the day!

 
Nitro is rated in the top 25 best roller-coasters and I totally see why!  The drop was insane, it was a smooth ride and an all around awesome ride!

We ate lunch at Granny's Country Kitchen which was good and very overpriced (as it is with most amusement park food).  It was basically southern food.  Me and Josh got the bowl which had fried chicken, corn and mashed potatoes with gravy.

After lunch I needed to do something slow before getting back on roller-coasters, so we decided to check out the Safari Off Road Adventure.  I'm 5 years old so this was totally the highlight of my day. After the Safari we did two more roller-coasters and called it a day around 6pm.  We would have stayed longer but I had to be up a 5am for work the next day.

*all photos were taken on my Iphone so they're not the best quality.

The Battleship NJ: Part 3: Camden, NJ

Previous Posts:
Part 1, Part 2

The Battleship New Jersey

This final installment of our BSNJ tour is going to be a photo dump.  Otherwise, I'd be posting about this for a month!

 The huge missiles you've been seeing throughout these posts are Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. These Missiles are long range precision strike weapons used against both surface and land targets.  Each Mark 143 Armored Box Launcher holds four Tomahawk missiles in their canisters.  Once the launchers are fired, they can only be reloaded in port.   A nuclear tipped Tomahawk has a range of over 1,500 miles.  That means that if it were launched where it currently sits, it could hit any location east of Dallas, TX and as far South as Cuba!

I sent Josh to the Brig!! The Brig is the Navy version of prison.  Sailors were sent here for bad behavior and during WW2 it was also used to hold Japanese prisoners.

And that concludes our day at the Battleship New Jersey!  If you like history and are looking for something to do in the Philadelphia area, I highly recommend taking a trip to the BSNJ and doing a self guided radio tour!  It was such an interesting site to see and there is so much more than when I've posted about - I really had to weed out pictures!