Back on Halloweekends reporting. Friday, which is as far as I've gotten. As the day wore on it got more and more busy, so we got to looking at less-popular rides --- mostly the flat rides we never get on when we're there for a single day --- and attractions. Here we spent more time prowling around the Frontier Trail than usual. The mill, with the waterwheel, was closed up, something different from previous visits. Can't say whether that was a happens-to-be-closed or they don't want people poking around an enclosed and unattended building. We did discover inside ``Fort Sandusky'', which has a big open front that you'd think would be a problem for an actual fort, a box that looked like it once held brochures about the historical nature of the buildings relocated here. We also found in the 'Trail DOR' box the Park Operations checklist for the area.
And that the now-combined candle shop/woodworking shop had a bunch of little candles that look like they were taken out from the backstock and put on shelves. Rose Stein, who'd run the candle shop, died in early 2021 and despite the universal acclaim of how much people liked the candle-making there, they're not making candles anymore. You can still dip a candle into colors, but that's all. This would be all right enough except the wood carving guy is busy enough selling candles he doesn't get much chance to carve. But we did see they had neat new things like miniatures of the Gemini roller coaster trains, or tiny trash bins, or the like, so he has time to do small projects at least.
I forget which day this happened s I'll just fit in here. While we were walking towards Corkscrew someone yelled out ``Hey! Pinball friends!'' and we smiled and waved back at we hadn't the faintest idea who. Moments later ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger placed him, as one of the weirdly large number of people who picked fights with her online about bunnyhugger's tournaments and, particularly, insisting on masks and such until the local board of health dropped the recommendation. (Which they should not have, but that's a separate issue.) We don't know why he was acting so much like nothing ever happened, but he managed to stay non-obnoxious enough that if he wants to consign that to ``let's not discuss this further'', all right. We can work with that and I suppose we looked gracious.
As the sun set and the weather went from clear and upper 50s to clear and mid-50s the crowds did thin out, and we were able to get some good riding in, both on flat rides and roller coasters. It was looking like we'd be able to meet our informal Halloweekends goal of riding all the roller coasters and even a bonus of riding maybe all the flat rides? (We did not, but if we'd focused on it Sunday we absolutely would have.)
Now in photos let's get back to Gilroy Gardens, a wonderful little spot:
Getting our second ride in on the Rainbow Garden Round Boat Ride. The wait was much less bad than it was on the 4th of July. Here you get to see the operator's station and the operator's big frozen margarita jug.
bunnyhugger looking charming on the boat ride. Also wearing a pinball T-shirt for some reason that can't possibly be explained, right?
Flowers lining one edge of the boat ride's channel.
And rocks lining the other side. I think this is near that sign explaining bamboo that I had a blurry picture of, from the other trip on this ride.
Looking at this tranquil channel you'd never imagine we were fifteen feet frm going over the waterfall, would you?
And here we're back to the end of the ride and whatever plant it is that does so well in the water here.
Trivia: Starting in 1934 the ``Committee of Five for the Betterment of Radio'' --- bandleaders Rudy Valee, Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Richard Himber, and Abe Lyman --- chose to not play songs with too-suggestive titles. This lest songs like ``Love for Sale'' or ``I Found A New Way To Go To Town'' inspire censorship drives. Source: The Mighty Music Box: The Golden Age of Musical Radio, Thomas A DeLong.
Currently Reading: Michigan History, January/February 2024. Editor Sarah Hamilton.
