Got to a film at the Capital City Film Festival today, but no time to write up thoughts. They'll come. Promise. Meanwhile, our day at HersheyPark approaches its end:
A kiddie carousel that we went past and stopped in front of, I thought because ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger was taking time to appreciate. Turns out we had miscommunicated and she was looking at something else nearby.
The center and the rounding boards for this carousel are done up as if wood slats which I have never seen on another ride like this; it really builds the attraction up.
And here's what it looks like. I believe the ride took no adults so we couldn't have ridden it in any case.
And here's the main carousel! We spent some of our precious last minutes hurrying back to the front of the park to get a final ride on this.
A badge with numbers on it --- 3 and 91, it looks like --- on the inside of the horse I rode. I first noticed some horses had these on, I want to say, Kings Island's carousel and since then I reliably look for these signs of the original numbering and placement scheme.
Center of the carousel but photographed at an extreme angle for the fun of it.
And here's what it looks like staring out from the carousel's interior.
Between waiting for Fahrenheit and rushing to the front of the park and hurrying to the back and my getting us lost trying to find Lightning Run, well, we went to Great Bear as a last ride of the night. And from here we got a view of Coal Crusher shut down for the end of hte night.
Nice dramatic view of the steps down from Great Bear; Hershey is built into the hillside and I didn't photograph enough of the contours.
Great Bear in the stillness of the night.
And there's Comet, I believe also finished with rides for the night.
And here's what we hoped to see! This is another fourth of July spent at an amusement park and we'd heard the show would be good.
Trivia: The first dispute between church authorities in Rome and those in Alexandria about when to celebrate Easter was based on when the vernal equinox should be, Rome using Caesar's date of the 25th of March and Alexandria using the more astronomically correct 21st. Source: The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock with the Heavens --- And What Happened to the Missing Ten Days, David Ewing Duncan.
Currently Reading: A History of Fireworks: From Their Origins to the Present Day, John Withington.
