![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
In the absense of much very interesting going on around here --- how interested can you be in my reaching the end of the Paxlovid prescription? --- enjoy please a double dose of Dutch Wonderland pictures and the start of another big orbit-the-park ride.
Here's the Wonder House just rocking a bit. I'm sorry the picture doesn't have the full text of the message about now come in onc't.
We did not take a picture of ourselves at this My First Trip To Dutch Wonderland display since it was neither of ours first trip.
The Kiddie Whip ride. It's kind of weird that so many parks kept the Kiddie Whip rides going when the Adult Whip rides are almost all long gone; I wonder what in the economics of it makes the one so much more appealing than the other.
And now? On to the monorail ride! Don't worry, there'll soon be something joining all these rectangles in perspective and whisking us away at a slight elevation.
We got lucky and were put in the booth up front, just behind the operator (who was out talking with someone about something when I took this cabin photo).
Close-up of the control panel. There's a couple reminders of things like closing-door announcements affixed permanently to the dashboard.
And here we are, in motion!
Way down there is the bumper car ride and, past that, the honeycomb/bear flat ride from a couple days ago.
The sign to/from Exploration Island, seen from above!
Here we cross over the water to the part of the ride over Exploration Island, which has me wondering what the monorail went over before the current Exploration Island construction. Maybe I have photos from a similar ride from our 2010 trip. No way to know.
Here's one of the spirals of Kingdom Coaster, with the launch station in the background.
Kingdom Coaster in the foreground and the log flume in background. And more of Kingdom Coaster in the farther background.
Trivia: Washington crossed the Delaware in flatboats called Durhams, after Robert Durham, who developed the design in 1757 in Pennsylvania. The flat-bottomed boats could be as long as 65 feet and as wide as eight feet in the beam, with excellent cargo capacity, able to carry as much as twenty tons of iron or 150 barrels of flour on calm waters. Source: Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, Peter L Bernstein. (You can see why this kind of boat might be of interest in a book about canal-building.)
Currently Reading: Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek, Glen E Swanson.
