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And then after saying (WATCH THIS SPACE) a week ago I forgot to follow up with what to watch for. I had mentioned in talking about Steel Vengeance how many people fail to have nice secure pockets that keep their belongings, like keys or a cell phone or such. But I'm a cargo shorts/cargo pants guy, so I have these lovely capacious pockets that have velcro or button or snaps to close them securely.
Well, the pants I was wearing also had a small problem, a tear along the side of one of the pockets. It had been a tiny and stable problem for so long I wasn't sure that it wasn't somehow by design. And then, on this most wonderful day of roller-coaster-riding at Cedar Point, the side came open. I discovered this when my camera fell out of my pocket and into the roller coaster's car floor. Fortunately not anywhere I couldn't find, although locating the black bag in the shadow of the seat was as easy as you'd think.
The astounding thing is what ride we were on. It was Iron Dragon, a suspended coaster and the smoothest, gentlest ride the park has. It's a bit like having your pants tear open on the Antique Autos ride. On the one hand, if it must break on something, much better it break on the ride least likely to drop my camera overboard. (Iron Dragon is so gentle that, at least it used to be, if you won a giant stuffed animal at a midway game you were supposed to take it on the ride with you.)
Rearranging my load to handle being down one pocket was annoying, but nothing too serious. I worried without limit about my keys, but they stayed where they were supposed to, and you can see that by how I don't have an anecdote about the troubles driving home.
The tailor that I went to to get some clothes repaired years ago shifted to doing only wedding-dress-repairs now. Not sure who else in town can patch a pocket like that. (We have a sewing machine but not the knowledge of how to do this particular repair.)
With that postscript to my Cedar Point trip report I also bring the last pictures of Sylvan Beach Amusement Park.
I hope someone told the Giant Slide operator that the night was over and she could go home.
You know, if it wasn't for the commute ...
Behind the Fun Slide are a bunch of spaces that aren't part of the park; the Rock-o-Plane in the background is about the spot where we entered. I'm not sure what park attraction the green light is. Plausibly it's the top of the Bomber?
Bumper Boats put away for the night a little more orderly than the Bumper Cars are.
And there's the Rock-O-Plane, with the Galaxi shut down behind it.
Cute little sign explaining the Rock-O-Plane and how you can choose your ride on it.
Trivia: By 1936 Germany owed Poland forty million złotys in railway fees for transportation across the Corridor, uncollectible. (Germany, having its own currency crisis, did offer to pay in goods, rather than cash.) Source: A Low Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930 - 1941, Paul N Hehn.
Currently Reading: A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstration the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics, Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, Sylvia Donmoyer.
