Next up: remember what I was doing in the middle of June? No? I was with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger, yes, that's a safe bet. Well, we were visiting four amusement parks and now, here, we'll start sharing photos of one and that's why I am not going to make it to within six months of current in my photo reel this year.
The hot air balloons for what I take to be local companies was easy to see from our hotel and, well, wouldn't you be captivated by that too? Note the bucket shape of the Porter Paints balloon.
And now, to the amusement park. Through the fence here we could just make out some stuff backstage including what looked like part of a dome taken off and left on the ground, its origin and purpose still a mystery.
And here's the park: Kentucky Kingdom! We hadn't visited since ... I want to say 2016. Sometime around then. Since then the park's been bought by the group that owns Dollywood, a thing we didn't take full advantage of since they had cinnamon bread.
We didn't get a park map, but we could at least take a photo of the park's map.
The park comes in two sections, on either side of a road, and when you cross over that road you get this view of the water park.
I'm not sure what this food stand is, but I like the clock up top; you don't see that sort of time made available at recreational places anymore. ... I don't think the clock is anywhere near the correct time.
I believe this is the side of a water park building. But it's got fake decayed bricks artfully arranged on it, and that fake decayed-brick facade is itself decaying.
Ah but here's the first thing we wanted to get to: not the pile of Habitrails on the right, but the Kentucky Flyer. Which you can't actually see here, although you can see its entrance sign. And behind that is an elevated swing ride that just looks like it's coming out of the sign.
The Flyer queue has a couple signs about World War II aircraft. Not sure why they feature the Avro Lancaster, a plane I'm pretty sure wasn't built in Lexington, Kentucky, or why advertise the Turbulence aspect of things. Velocity makes sence.
Now we've got the Kentucky Flyer. Here's the launch station, and the final turnaround leading to it.
Here's the train! We got front-seat rides; we were lucky to have almost no waits at ... anything ... and you can see the airplane theming of the train there.
The ride cycle before us going up the lift hill. This was a good ride and we went on it a bunch.
Trivia: During 1936 Parker Brothers issued six different versions of Monopoly, priced from $2 to $25. Source: The Game Makers: The Story Of Parker Brothers From Tiddledy Winks To Trivial Pursuit, Philip E Orbanes.
Currently Reading: The Great Comic Book Heroes, Jules Feiffer.
