I will admit, Busch Gardens was the one place on our list I was not looking forward to going. I pictured an over-hyped tacky amusement park, and (for us) it's prohibitively expensive. I questioned whether it was worth spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars in order to procure a half a dozen Mold-A-Rama figures. But for the whole trip we traveled as frugally as we could, eating mostly peanut butter sandwiches in the car and staying with friends or in hotels that took coupons, so we decided we could afford to have this be our big splurge.
It turns out Busch Gardens is great.
