Can you spot the point in my humor blog this past week where I ran out of ideas and, an hour past deadline, had to go with literally anything? Your candidates are ...
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 3
- I No Longer Think the Major Was a Lady Suffragette
- Statistics Saturday: Great Songs With ``Goat'' In The Title
- Going to Suppose They Rate ‘Changing Your Profile Picture' as a Thrill Level 4 (High) Activity
- Why It's Good to Make Notes of Every Idea You Have, Whether They Seem Any Good or Not
- What's Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? What is this John X business? January - April 2024
- Don't Tell Me You Never Heard of the Movie, I Know You're Fibbing
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 4
And now we begin a new adventure ... the day trip ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger took to Indiana Beach with our pinball friend JTK and his children. Also the first time we've been to Indiana Beach together not on our anniversary! How weird was that? Just watch, from back in the misty days of August 2023 ...
Coming into Indiana Beach! The disappointing news: Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain would not run, meaning JTK had gone like seven times that year trying to get to this ride --- which is worth it --- without succeeding. He still hasn't made it.
We had never come to Indiana Beach this way, which turns out mean we've always gone in the back side instead of their ``main'' entrance. Right? Who knew?
There's the nice dramatic walk through lovely green areas from the parking lot to ...
... the little covered bridge where they take your tickets. It looks so low-key, doesn't it?
And once you're through there you walk the suspension bridge to get to the park proper.
This approach does give you this nice view of the park as a whole, and as something you're journeying to enter, making it feel like an event getting in.
Hoosier Hurricane runs the length of the park here and even goes out over the water, so some of its footers are under the river like this.
The approach also gives this nice overhead view of the miniature train tracks; this is one of the two stops, the one by the curious little park with the extremely outdated fountains and unused(?) impractically small stage that we spent so much time exploring when we visited in 2022.
Hoosier Hurricane above and, to the right, the sky chair ride.
Oh, I guess also the Water Swings ride here, a swings ride that extends so you do go over the water and worry about your shoes falling off, wasn't running.
The Shafer Queen, the small excursion boat, wasn't running, but at least around it was ... rather a lot of algae, really. You know what they need to clean this up? Some fish.
Oh ... wait. They have fish, so I guess that's not what they need there?
Trivia: While studying the skies from his Uraniborg observatory Tycho Brahe had the services of a court jester, a dwarf named Jepp. Source: The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World, Edward Dolnick.
Currently Reading: The Acme Catalog: Quality Is Our #1 Dream, Charles Carrey and Scott Grass. The book's a gift from a friend. It's a collection of watercolor/airbrush-art illustrations of various Acme props from mostly Wile E Coyote cartoons with a bit of descriptive text that would probably be amusing if you caught a glimpse of it during a cartoon, but laid out where you can read it all at leisure it loses something. Probably the book's also better read in passing glances rather than in a row. It's from 2006 which is probably as late as you could make something like this instead of having it be a cute blog instead.
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Date: 2024-04-26 11:11 am (UTC)https://youtu.be/QWlEdXuMyB4?si=ALYHlIVSA5OKQCyU&t=34