With it being late October it won't surprise you to know we went to Cedar Point for a Halloweekends trip. You might even expect we went for the full four-day weekend since they're open a partial day Thursday and a full day Fridays now. This is not to surprise you any further about that. But I have a pretty full schedule the first two days of this week so I haven't got time to really get into the narrative.
I'll tease things with an incident that happened while driving down to Sandusky, though. Getting off the Ohio Turnpike I paid my toll (five dollars! I remember when I wasn't sure if it was $3.75 or $4.00) and started rolling off, trying not to hold up traffic, when my tire bumped the concrete island and there was this crunching noise that brought ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger to full alert. I had bumped into the curb surrounding the toll booth hard enough that it damaged my hubcap. I'd expected it was broken; turns out, it was broken off entirely. So, about six months after getting one missing hubcap replaced, I have a new missing hubcap. There's probably somewhere I can just buy replacements.
That teased, now, let's get back to Eclipse Day at Cedar Point so this entry can be tagged Cedar Point for multiple reasons:
The community coloring sheets were subject to people putting in their own whimsy, like this happy-looking gator peering out from somewhere among the tracks of ... I'm going to guess GateKeeper?
And here folks have added their own Charlie Brown and a couple Snoopys hovering in space above Top Thrill Dragster 2. Pretty good Charlie Brown and a respectable set of Snoopys.
The news has arrived! They weren't going to miss the eclipse if they could help it.
Here's crews setting up on the balcony of the Grand Pavillion building on the Boardwalk. I don't want to tell them their business but they're pointing those cameras north.
Well, maybe they're getting some B-roll footage of Wild Mouse. They'll probably find the eclipse when it comes to happen.
More cameras all pointing north. You can see Magnum XL 200 (not operating) in the background.
Also look at that pristine beach with like no footprints on it.
Also suspiciously few seagulls on the beach. I guess they're all getting their work done before the eclipse.
The Sun, as seen through a light layer of clouds that were just enough to give us a sunbow! That's exciting.
Gear set up here from Spectrum News 1, from whatever the heck Channel 19 news is, and from JJ's sandwiches.
Looking out from the balcony at GateKeeper, doing its part of handling a lot of people passing through quickly. GateKeeper's great at that.
And here's the DJ, at that moment playing to very few people in the dance area. She had a 1970s-grade shiny miniskirt on.
Trivia: About 38 percent of meteorites landing on Earth are chemical matches for the Flora family of asteroids, of which 13 thousand members are known. The largest, 8 Flora, is about 180 kilometers in diameter. Source: Asteroids, Clifford J Cunningham. (It was, as the name suggests, the eighth asteroid discovered. It's probably the asteroid that causes the trouble in MST3K pilot-episode film The Green Slime.)
Currently Reading: A couple of comic books I picked up a couple weeks ago. Don't worry about them.
