King Ding Dong

So nothing has changed at the park I see. I take it there is no security to be found anywhere?

Roughly 300 Teens Exposed to Coronavirus After Attending ‘Pong Fest’ Party in Texas Town, Confirms Mayor https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roughly-300-teens-exposed-coronavirus-040339878.html

Try coughing a few times and see if anyone moves.

The database has probably not been merged yet. I wouldn’t be concerned but make sure you can easily access your online receipt if you need to stop by guest services.

Challenge accepted. https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-students-throwing-covid-parties-infected-officials/story?id=71552514

What a Family That Lost 5 to the Virus Wants You to Know The family’s 73-year-old matriarch, three of her 11 children and her sister all died of Covid-19. Her survivors are focused on finding a remedy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/nyregion/coronavirus-fusco-family-nj.html

This is bad for your health.

Microsoft usually release software updates on Tuesdays. Give it a few days.

The internet is forever.

Benjamin22 posted the current items in a spoiler tag and the park usually has a printed Dinning guide you can pick up on the way in. That may be different this year with no printed park maps. Don’t think the app listed menu items in years past, but hopefully they will this year. Keep in mind items are “subject to change” and in years past they have yanked things around or had ill trained associates. Issues I can recall are changing the entree options at Panda mid season and some salads listed on dining plan menu but associates saying it is not on the plan. I don’t recall hearing any major issues last season however. Most menu boards will have dining plan symbol next to eligible items.

What Benjamin22 said but realize not every item is on the menu and usually just the basics. The value proposition is a bit different with kids especially if they are picky or don’t eat much. With limited items on the menu it can make it harder for a family to all eat at one place and sometimes all a kid needs is a cheaper snack and not a full basket meal so the math is not all 1:1. Portion sizes are different between parks as well, CP in general has smaller portions than KI. (1 pizza slice instead of 2, 1 Panda entree instead of 2) Also you can’t use the basket price to do the math as the basket combo includes a drink but the dinning plan does not. Maybe it will be fixed this year but you cannot use the Dinning plan and drink plan from the kiosks in the same transaction, it will charge you for the drink, so you will end up needing to go to the cashier for a drink plan refill anyway. You can give it a try but you will likely want to go all Office Space on the kiosk before you are done. Also be prepared for occasional but rare IT glitches and the cashier says your Dinning plan is not activated that day. Ask to speak to an area supervisor instead of huffing it all the way to Guest Services to get it straightened out. Possibly, but I noticed no shorter lines for Maverick or any of the other big coasters at CP the past couple of years after SV was added.

KI has been backing away from a lot of long standing traditions the past few seasons. This is not what I wanted to hear today. Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704

Got to love Intamin.

Are you sure that is how they are handling it? I thought we had a discussion recently about the toll booths not opening until 10:30 and that would naturally stagger the arrival of guests at the front gate depending how fast they let vehicles through the booths. Of course at the expense of a possible traffic jam who knows how far outside the toll booths.

I am having a tough time squaring these two seemingly in-congruent statements.

Whoosh (Unless we hired former East German engineers it wouldn’t even be possible. Our newly minted Wall is easily thwarted with a $100 saw from Lowe’s.)

Mocking a poster with “learning disabilities”. Keeping it classy I see. Facts are not your strong point clearly. Look at at Europe. You anti-maskers IMO are the problem.

Can you provide those statistics to prove your point?

I am a bit surprised @BeeastFarmer is not railing on you for being an “expert on coaster rattling”. We need more cross threading around here. So.... why are they rollbacks bouncing now when they didn’t before? Is this a maintenance or design issue? @DonHelbig obviously agrees, maybe he can answer.

Blow the bridges!

Closing the Indiana border would seem a higher priority right now.

The B&M rattle will show up soon enough. It always does.

Not only that it can take up to 14 days for symptoms to appear and then more time before they become severe enough to warrant a test. On top of that contact tracing is not very robust in most areas in the US and where it is cooperation is very limited. Then if there is information is not in the public domain and aggregate data is sporadically released to the public if at all. It is also only done within a state and the virus does not respect borders much less state borders. The US for many reasons does not have a robust nationwide contact tracing system.

The soap and water trick requires a very light rinse and preferably an air dry. Soap with moisturizers probably won’t work as well just like the tissues with moisturizers like aloe are poor for cleaning. The goal is to leave a slight clean soap film on the inside of the lenses. Rubbing with saliva will help and there are many commercial products available as well that may work better. For swim goggles Jaws Liquid Spit worked well for me if I let it air dry. The Jaws brand doesn’t seem available on Amazon anymore but if you search anti-fog for glasses there are many options including wipes, which may be more convenient for the park than a 1oz bottle.