The day after Anthrohio has always had the problem of what to do to take the edge off the return to normal life. Coon's Candy is unavailable on Memorial Day weekend. The Columbus Zoo would be good except that particular Monday was bright, hot, and sunny and the last time we tried that the place was packed. But I had a thought and checked and found it wasn't ridiculously out of line. If we went to Cedar Point I'd face a bit over five hours of driving. Columbus to Lansing direct is about four hours so ... you know, why not? And so we did.
We didn't know what to expect from the crowds; weekends are always busy but the actual holiday itself often is not so much as you'd think. Turned out to be a fairly busy day; we wouldn't get on Wild Mouse or any of the other long-line coasters. But we also went in not expecting to do much. We also went in without ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's season pass; she hadn't thought of visiting the park and so left it home. The service desk was happy to print out a paper receipt that served as a substitute pass for the day.
With time to just be around we did something we never do: go to a show. We often, pre-pandemic, stopped in on Halloweekends shows, since we had the time, but on one-day visits during the regular season we rarely would. But here, since we didn't figure to ride many roller coasters, it was just the thing. ... And here, when I was in an enclosed room with a fair-size audience for a half-hour, with nothing but a basic mask to wear --- I didn't want to carry my N95 around all day --- would be what I emotionally want to be the place I got Covid-19. But if it happened --- and it's not like this is an airtight facility, or that crowded --- it would mean I went from exposure to symptoms in maybe 52 hours and that seems fast. Anthrohio, despite its good precautions, is the more likely candidate.
Anyway. The show was ``Come See About Me'', a jukebox-musical story about a guy running the failing Moe's Town Record Shop somewhere in Detroit. He's visited by the lead singer for a band who tells him how he needs to showcase all the great Motown songs on the albums and so on and his band comes in and she sings with them and it draws in land-office business of, I think, three customers buying records. And then his band comes and plays the big gig with the singer and her band. It's what you want for a half-hour show stringing together Motown songs, and it prompted us to look up just when Motown closed. The answer: it didn't. It moved to Los Angeles in 1967, was bought out by MCA in 1988, went through a couple new owners and a move to New York City after that, and was spun off as its own label in 2021. Who knew, right? They're mostly doing hip-hop/R-and-B these days.
Despite the mobs we got to many of the things we enjoy, like the carousels and Blue Streak and GateKeeper and such. Also bunnyhugger got a Wild Mouse T-shirt replacing the one that disappeared after our Mother's Day visit. They already had more and a better variety of shirts and such. Also some more trading pins, although as you'd imagine, not the one she really wants (the Iron Dragon mascot as a cub dragon). Maybe the next time ...
Now back to the Buggles! Or to what we saw before the concert started. I didn't take so many pictures during the concert, but there's a few, and we'll come to them too ...
Snap of one of the (many) figures inside (many) wall niches that's a bit blurry because my camera has decided that auto-focus is a little too much to ask for it these days. I'd complain but, I mean, me too. Note the peacock-tailfeather decor around it.
And my good picture of the pre-show video! This from their second single, 'Living in the Plastic Age'.
More of the wall niches, including the big diamond-shaped one to the right that's over the main stage. It doesn't have a figure in it and we're stumped about whether it 'should' or ever did.
Looking back in the audience from where we were. It would fill up a little from this but the balcony wasn't nearly as full as the main floor.
Pondering the big orb that is the main chandelier.
Ladies and gentlemen, KISS! Oh no, wait, it's Buggles breaking out!
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