You know what? Let's close out that May visit to Cedar Point. Here's things to look at from then:
Some kind of mangement-y person reviewing the Kiddy Kingdom Carousel.
And some other management-y type --- one who rates a jacket with collar and doesn't have to carry around an iPad --- pointing where to go next.
Cedar Downs looking pretty nice even with its internal lighting off. I initially thought the ride maybe wasn't running but no, you can see people exiting the ride in the background there. Promise.
But you know the lighting made it look good if ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger is taking a picture of it.
Towers. The one on top is one of the towers for Slingshot, a reverse bungee upcharge ride. Top Thrill's top hat is in the center of the picture. If you look just right you can see Power Tower, the drop/launch towers.
Getting on the evening here. Midway Carousel's all illuminated and up in the left corner you can see the Moon, being way less interesting than it was a couple weeks before when it eclipsed the sun.
And here's proof that it's an interesting thing to look at since bunnyhugger photographed it too.
One of the files of horses on the Midway Carousel, and their reflection.
The horses seen in reflection from one of the Midway Carousel's center mirrors.
Looking over the Midway Carousel and Raptor before leaving for the night.
And a parting view of GateKeeper and the entrance in twilight.
Trivia: In 1930, facing droughts throughout much of the United States, President Herbert Hoover pressured the Red Cross to earmark $5,000,000 for drought relief. By the end of the year they had spent $460,000, mostly on seed distribution, and far less on emergency food and clothing. Source: A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe. (The Red Cross held the drought as an economic, rather than natural, disaster, and so outside their purview. Also, the drought was widespread enough --- basically everywhere east of the Rockies, shorting every crop --- that making it their mission could drain the whole organization's finances.)
Currently Reading: Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem, June Barrow-Green.
