But he didn't make the flowers and he didn't make the trees

[austin_dern]

Sorry, I didn't have the chance to write my blog today because I somehow thought I'd have time between getting out of work and the start of pinball league. I know, you'd think by now I would have learned. In the stead, please enjoy reading about What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Who's the guy capturing Popeye in a bubble? September - December 2023.

And here's some more walking back and forth on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

Another picture of the front of the dark ride, with the doors that you vanish into on the right.

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Another snap of the seahorse dragons guarding the Fright Walk, which I don't think we had gone on just yet.

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The Rock-and-Roll is a pretty normal example of this ride; I think that's even a standard backdrop in the far background. Still, it looks great in the sunlight like this.

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Stopping here for a picture of the lift hill to Giant Dipper.

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Here we're looking up to the apex of the lift hill.

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And here's what comes after the lift hill for Giant Dipper.

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Trivia: After the failure of Vanguard TV-3's launch attempt sell orders on the Martin Company reached such a high level that the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading, from 11:50 am to 1:23 pm. At the resumption of trading it was at 36 ³/₈, off 1 ³/₈. At the end of trading it was at 35 ¹/₂, off 2 ¹/₄. Source: Project Vanguard: The NASA History, Constance McLaughlin Green, Milton Lomask. NASA SP-4202.

Currently Reading: The Tale That Wags The God, James Blish. Editor Cy Chauvin.