We finally got to the beach today! And spent a lovely day there, with me not on my computer and not writing things. So please enjoy instead the close-out of our Cedar Point trip from November last year, eleven-plus months ago!
Ride operator at the front of the Mine Ride, shortly after a train's dispatch. You can see it about to get into the shed.
And a walk-on ride for us! We wouldn't get the train to ourselves, I believe, but it was close.
We did go back around for a ride that, while not the last one of the night, did get us back into the station after midnight, the close of the season. So we were on a roller coaster on November 3rd, the latest in a year we've been able to yet.
I photographed this sign showing the way to Snake River Falls because I expected it to be removed or rewritten for this year. I forgot to check if it was.
The Town Hall Museum I photographed out of fear they'd tear it down over the winter season. They didn't, but they have turned it into a Halloweekends walk-through attraction.
And here's Snake River falls, the last time we'd see it.
Skeleton head just taking up space on the Frontier Trail.
And a view of the Power Tower and the reverse spike for Top Thrill 2.
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bunnyhugger in front of the Iron Dragon entrance. They changed the queue over the off-season and I don't remember if I knew that and was taking a last picture of the way it was, or just, we were nearby and it's Iron Dragon.
This is an ordinary picture of the end of the entrance midway but it came across nicer than I expected. Something about the depth of action worked out well here.
Picture of Cedar Downs, put to bed for the season, that came out better than I expected.
And the decorations in front of the Midway Carousel, facing the park's exit.
Trivia: On the 6th of October, 1961, NASA head of Space Flight Programs Abe Silverstein requested and received Associate Administrator Robert Seamans's formal approval for ``preparation of a preliminary development plan for the proposed orbital flight development program'', that is, what would become Project Gemini. Source: On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini, Barton C Hacker, James M Grimwood.
Currently Reading: The Theoretical Minimum: What you need to know to start doing physics, Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky.
