We have now reached the point that I don't have anything big to report on. That will change, of course, but for now, we can start doing full-time photo dumps. First up: our first visit to Michigan's Adventure's Tricks-or-Treats Halloween event, the day ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger got her very own carousel rabbit.
Here's the establishing shot of my car in the parking lot, right beside Mad Mouse, just like in the good old days when the park wasn't so crowded.
Bunting and plastic pumpkins set up at the park entrance. You can see it was raining earlier in the day but once again, by the time we were there, the weather was gorgeous.
They got all sorts of spider webbing around the park, like here at Guest Services.
Not only did Michigan's Adventure have physical maps but they had a seasonal map, showing the section of park open for the festivity. Note that a big chunk of the park was closed off and accessible only from the miniature railroad.
Swan boat --- the ride wasn't open --- with skeletons in it. The hair and beards are a fun choice.
Over the fall and winter they built a boardwalk that crosses a small segment of the lagoon, solving the problem of ??? ?? ??????? ????? ? ?????.
Halloween decorations along one of the fences that make the park look surprisingly glorious.
They closed off the path leading to Loggers Run, but it's so good-looking who could complain? Especially with the rain having made the sidewalk much more cinematographic.
The long walkway toward Wolverine Wildcat and Shivering Timbers (the latter of which was closed), again, looking fabulous in the light and wet pavement.
Event tents set up around the railroad entrance.
Down the closed path which leads to Shivering Timbers we can see the cars for the Himalaya ride, Thunder Bolt, taken off for --- well, we wouldn't learn that until the spring season, would we? (They were renovating the Thunder Bolt.)
Here's one of the event tents, in-between events. The purple works great for the area.
Trivia: Cesare Emiliani, geologist and paleontologist with the University of Miami, proposed a ``Holocene Era'' calculated by simply adding 10,000 to the year Anno Domini; so, this would be the year 12,024. This would loosely match the time since the last ice age ended and put all historical dates on the same side of the epochal event. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel.
Currently Reading: The Best Of The Spirit, Will Eisner.
