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[chittlins]

"That trip has to more than 50% cultural/historical or the wife will revolt."

I'm going to Europe again next year but I cannot even think about going to a amusement park with all the great historical and natural sites to see. I'm with your wife on this one.

There's a balancing act to be had but the kids and I will hit some parks to cut lose a bit. Plopsa De Panne is right there where we'll be showing them Flander's Fields and focusing on WWI. Efteling and Phantasialand are simply incredibly well themed and happen to have some neat lodging.

Efteling has some nice cottages that we can base a couple of days out of




We plan for the early part of June as most of Europe doesn't end their school and thus Holidays till late June.

We are  planning on either 14 days or 21 days. That's with or without Italy.

[StaceySue]

I'd love to go to Europe someday! 

I thought this list looked fun.  I'll do mine.  We can include aquariums and zoos?  I usually forget to look at all of the forums, so I'm glad this thread was revived.

Bell's
Big Splash
Carousel Park
Celebration City
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo- Colorado Springs
Cypress Gardens
Deana Rose Farm
Dickerson Zoo- Springfield
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney's Epcot
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Magic Kingdom
Dogpatch USA
Dollywood
Downtown Aquarium-Denver
Georgia Aquarium
Holiday World (When it was called Santa Claus Land)
Kansas City Zoo
Kennedy Space Center
Nickelodeon Universe- Mall of America
North Pole-Santa's Workshop-Colorado Springs
Oceans of Fun
Oklahoma Aquarium
Oklahoma City Zoo
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
Opryland
Ripley's Aquarium Gatlinburg
Royal Gorge Bridge and Park
Sea Life Aquarium Kansas City
Sea Life Aquarium Mall of America
Sea World San Antoniohe
Shedd's Aquarium Chicago
Silver Dollar City
Six Flags over Texas
Splash Country Pigeon Forge
Stone Mountain Park
Tulsa Zoo
White Water Branson
White Water Oklahoma City
Worlds of Fun

[chittlins]

I need to add Tulsa's Incredible Pizza as we spent to while day there today. The little spinning coaster is fun. And... then Tulsa decided to remind me of home as we walked out to this:

KJRH

2 arrested after road rage incident leads to shots fired at Incredible Pizza in south Tulsa
5:39 PM, Oct 11, 2015
13 mins ago

 

TULSA - Police arrested a man and a woman after an alleged road rage incident led to shots fired in front of a family-friendly restaurant in south Tulsa.

Officers responded to Incredible Pizza near 71st and Memorial just after 5 p.m. Sunday.

They say they received multiple calls about an apparent road rage incident on Highway 169 southbound.

Police say the occupants of a maroon Nissan felt that another car tried to run them off the road. They say the people in that other car were following a family member and her daughter to her kid's birthday party.

Officers say the Nissan followed the two cars to the parking lot of Incredible Pizza and got out of the car. They say one of the victims saw one of the passengers in the Nissan had a gun and they began to fight over it.

Police say the gun went off three times during the struggle. No one was hurt.

They say the victims were able to wrestle the gun away from the suspect and security at Incredible Pizza took him into custody.

Officers arrested the man with the gun and the woman who was driving the Nissan. They say they had a child in the car with them and a family member came to the scene to pick him up.

Police have not released the names of those arrested.

[Disneyfamily]

Magic Kingdom
Epcot
Animal Kingdom
Hollywood Studios
SDC
Dollywood
CC
Six Flags St louis
Indiana Beach
Old Chicago
Sea World
Dogpatch
Fort Dells
Busch Gardens
Kings Island

[Junior, too!]

Silver Dollar City
Six Flags St. Louis
Worlds of Fun
Whitewater
Chain of Rocks St. Louis (defunct)
Jessie James Territory Sullivan, MO (defunct)
Six Guns West Florida (defunct)
Cypress Gardens Florida (Don't know if this one still exists or not.)
Magic Kingdom
EPCOT
Disney/MGM Studios Florida
Universal Studios Orlando
Mutton Hollow and Celebration City (defunct) missed going to Branson USA
Opryland USA Nashville (defunct)

[History Buff]

Silver Dollar City
Celebration City
Mutton Hollow
Worlds of Fun
Frontier City
White Water Bay
Six Flags, Texas
Sea World, San Antonio
Seven Seas, Texas
Six Flags, St. Louis
Disneyland
Sea World, San Diego
Universal, California
Opryland
Magic Kingdom
EPCOT
Animal Kingdom
Disney MGM/Hollywood Studios
Sea World, Orlando
Aquatica

[Tmboote]

Silver Dollar City
Worlds of Fun
Valleyfair
Nickelodeon Universe
Adventureland

[Junior, too!]

Oh, yeah...gotta add to my list:

Dogpatch USA near Harrison, AR
St. Louis Zoo
Tulsa Zoo
New Orleans Aquarium

I think that's it.

[chittlins]

Silver Dollar City
Six Flags St. Louis
Worlds of Fun
Whitewater
Chain of Rocks St. Louis (defunct)
Jessie James Territory Sullivan, MO (defunct)
Six Guns West Florida (defunct)
Cypress Gardens Florida (Don't know if this one still exists or not.)
Magic Kingdom
EPCOT
Disney/MGM Studios Florida
Universal Studios Orlando
Mutton Hollow and Celebration City (defunct) missed going to Branson USA
Opryland USA Nashville (defunct)

Cypress Gardens, sorta, kinda lives on. It now a LegoLand and the have keep some of the garden areas and supposedly are slowly getting more areas back into shape. The park got let go of till Merlin stepped in.

The ski show lives on


The girls are little more plastic than before

[chittlins]

So, while researching this trip of mine that tentatively planned for 2018 i've discovered Poy du Fou, which has been decided upon as a must do, and there's nearby Futuroscope.  Anyway, I was reading up on Venice and found an article where the cash strapped Italian gov't is selling a 99 year lease for a Venetian Island that's been sort of abandoned, has an old hospital and stuff and how the the locals don't want it developed but be a park for actual residents and I saw where another one was getting some resistance but was progressing along. This island is basically the old dump and Mr. Zamperla has stepped in and said he'd clean what is the equivalent of a Super Fund site and build a Venetian themepark. Now, I'm all about theme parks but do we.need one on a Venetian Island?

[DeweyBald]

Silver Dollar City
Celebration City
Mutton Hollow
Bells Amusement Park
Worlds of Fun
Frontier City
White Water, Branson
White Water, Oklahoma City
Dogpatch USA
Grants Farm
Six Flags, Texas
Six Flags, St. Louis
Sea World, San Antonio
Sea World, San Diego
Seven Seas, Texas
Lion Country Safari, Texas
Opryland
Magic Kingdom
EPCOT
Tulsa Zoo
Oklahoma City Zoo
San Diego Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
New Orleans Aquarium
Oklahoma Aquarium