New day, new photo roll adventure. This time, it's our July trip to Michigan's Adventure, one of several attempts to ride one roller coaster in particular and the rest as time allowed. This was the first summer we'd have to go on the weekends, though, and deal with those crowds. How did it work out? ...

Establishing shot. My car, ready to bite its hatchback down hard on Michigan's Adventure's Mad Mouse roller coaster. Let's see if it works!

First attraction as ever, the goats who are hoping to avoid quite all that much heat, thank you.

The goats long ago figured they can most of the time safely poke their heads through the fencing and get petted and/or fed.

And now here we are to ... wow, is that one very long rabbit?

No, of course not, it's two rabbits huddling up near one another underneath the table, as far as can be from anyone who might touch them.

Both rabbits here conveying the expression, ``You're lucky my chick's here.''

Anyway, goats like to eat, and will delight people by doing things like standing up to reach food.

Back to the rabbits! We had a rubber hay ball kind of like that but between Stephen, Columbo, Penelope, Sunshine, and Roger they're not all that interested in it.

Bunny asking the other why they've become a featureless orb and is there anything they could do to help?

A little licking may be all you can do for your featureless orbs but it's welcome nevertheless.

And here's the rabbits out of orb form, sprawling out and eating some of the hay we tossed them. Or at least considering it.

And now for some ducks! In as close to a row as they ever get!
Trivia: At the first Times Square New Year's Eve party (at the end of 1904) the only electric signs were at the Hammerstein's and the Rector's theaters. New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs had to set up large gas lanterns for the crowd. Source: Greater Gotham: A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919, Mike Wallace.
Currently Reading: Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (In a Big Way), Roma Agrawal.