Time in my photo reel now to reveal how close we are to eclipse time!
The center of the Boardwalk area: the DJ stage in front of the Giant Wheel where they'd have music and a dance and all that. Note that it was, at this moment, 2:35:23 from the start of the eclipse.
Troika Troika Troika was one of the rides and we always like getting some time on this.
I finally realized the dramatic potential of standing underneath the Giant Wheel and looking up.
Wild Mouse was one of two roller coasters available for the day. Notice past the arch there the little mouse signs all had eclipse glasses on.
Chase tells us (in the recorded safety spiel) that he's the head mouse. Larry does not sound like he cares .
Mazey's a bit noteworthy because when they released the collectible trading pins for the Wild Mouse mice they printed some with her name misspelled, so what was supposed to be a common pin became an extremely rare as Cedar Point pulled the production run.
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bunnyhugger's favorite mouse because, you know, purple.
Sun high above GateKeeper, the other coaster that was open. Somewhere up there is the moon, also, but you wouldn't know it. We were a tiny bit worried about the cloud cover but figured if it stayed like this, we weren't likely to miss what totality would bring.
Uh-oh! What's going on here? Wild Mouse stopped several times over the day and here's one of those moments. I don't know what exactly was happening but odds are there was a brake issue. (They'll also stop on the lift hill if they spot you taking your phone out, but they won't usually send someone up.)
Another sign explaining natural phenomena of the eclipse.
Some communal fun to be had: try and color in a picture with way more lines than kids would have the energy for!
bunnyhugger did her share, here coloring in some parts of the Windseeker outline. You can see from her side the lanyard with map, fact sheet, and a holder for eclipse glasses that they gave her with entry.
Trivia: A 15th-century chart by Fra Mauro has a note near Germany that ``in this sea they do not navigate by compass and chart but by soundings'', with variations in sea depth adequate for navigation in the North Sea and Baltic waters. Source: The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World, Amir D Aczel.
Currently Reading: The Life of Lines, Tim Ingold.
