Busch Gardens, Williamsburg

We all know what a huge Disney Nerd I am.  But before I loved Disney, I cut my theme park teeth on another outstanding park, Busch Gardens Williamsburg.  Rob and I went once before when the kiddos were babies, but he has no memory of that trip, so it was like a first for all three of them.  A lot of what I love about Disney is present at BG.  Beautiful theming, good food, fun rides.  Plus, BG gives military 1 free day a year in one of their parks.  Thank you!

So here are the highlights of our day at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.  Enjoy!

First ride of the day, parking tram!

All these new rides!

Driving RC cars in the Canada, I mean, New France section of the park.

Panning for gold, a Schneider Family vacation staple.

Mommy is always up for the Scrambler!

Land of the Dragons. I remember when they added this section. Now I have kids that played there. Isn't life weird?

This was our first ever theme park trip without a stroller. It was exhausting.

With the dancers in the Festhaus.

Ryan, a future engineer, was trying to figure out how the bumper cars worked.

We really loved our day at Busch Gardens.  Not pushing a stroller was a huge plus, and the kids did well walking.  Anne and Ryan are still too short for all the roller coasters and I missed the Big Bad Wolf, which is the first roller coaster I remember riding.  But BG has plenty for the shorter set to enjoy.  And since it the Food and Wine Festival was going on (how did I not get any pictures of that?) we had a lot of good snacks.  Hopefully we can go back the next time we are in Virginia!

This day, May 31st, was also our last day at our awesome camp site at Cheatham Annex.  The next day we were moving to a beach front campground!

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