Glad to hear you got to go to the park, but it's a shame that you didn't have such a great time.
As far as the paging system goes, that was a half-truth. More than likely, it wasn't down. The park policy is only to page people in the case of an emergency. The Siemens thing is the only thing they can do for you if you are lost. Probably people get upset about that a lot, so they just say it's down, but oh well, you found who you were looking for.
Did you ever get your niece's friend to ride anything good?