UnrealNightmare Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 So I finally have a moment to write my trip report from this weekend. First off I'd like to thank everyone who I got a chance to meet from KIC this weekend. Hopefully next time I will have a chance to meet a few more of you. Also thanks to Don for allowing us to be a part of this. Saturday May 9th We left Indy around 4:30 Saturday morning on little over 4 hours of sleep. My g/f (Aleesha) slept most of the way there. We arrived at the park around 6:20. We headed right for the line to register. After registering we waited about 20 minutes and then they walked us all back to The Beast. We got three rides on before 8. We then headed over to BLSC were we waited on train for front car. After that they had opened The Vortex so we got two rides on it, once in 7-1 and once in the front. Both seats were equally as smooth in my opinion. We then walked back over to BLSC for another ride. Then back over to The Beast for our 4th ride of the day. After all that it was about 9 and I had forgotten to take my Dramamine so we walked back out to my car to grab a snack and take my meds. We walked back into the park around 9:45 and we headed over to the Coney Mall. At 10 we got the first train of the day in first car on FoF. Which is now my favorite seat. Then Firehawk was still doing its morning tests so we jumped in line outside of the que and decided we would wait. Turns out we only waited 5 minutes then they let us in. We were the second train of the day. Another amazing ride. After that we decide to Ride Adventure Express. It was fun but the effects weren't working in the tunnel still. Then we headed over to Runaway Reptar and got a ride in on that. Now it was time for The Beast walkback, and I will let the pictures do the talking. Possible contest photo #1 After The Beast walkback I really don't remember the order in which we rode everything so I'm just going to post some of the best pictures I took during the day. Possible contest photo #2 Possible contest photo #3 So after getting a couple rides in on a few more rides. I was ready for a nap. So we left the park around 3:30 to go and check into our hotel. We took about a 2 hour nap and grabbed a few snacks then back to the park we were by 7. We headed straight for SoB where I managed to get a few good photos. After waiting about an hour and fifteen minutes for SoB we decided we'd jump in line for our night ride on The Beast. We timed it just right. We got our last ride on The Beast right at 9:30. Wow I will always love The Beast at night, and now guess what I had time to jump in line for one ride on Diamondback before the ERT started. The single rider lane was looking longer than the regular line so I jumped in the regular line and only waited about 25 minutes just reached the stairs when the fireworks started. Another amazing ride on Diamondback. Now it was time for ERT. The thing I liked most was the no seat assigning. This helped a lot. I only got three rides during ERT because my g/f didn't want to ride and I didn't want her to just have to sit alone for another hour and a half so we left at 11:30. Here are my ORP's from that night. Oh my last ride of the night was in the front car. WOW!!! Is all I can say. What a way to end the night. Second day TR coming shortly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 Sunday May 10th We woke up around 7:45 and we went to check out of our hotel. We arrived at the park around 8:10. We got registered and walked right over to FoF. We got two rides with the lights on. We then decided to ride The Racer because Firehawk was closed. So we rhode the red side twice in a row without getting off. Then we heard The Vortex was open so we got two more rides in our now favorite seat 7-1 and front car. Now I wanted one more ride on FoF so we walked through the exit and got another walk on ride this time with the lights off. Which is much better in my opinion. After that we met everyone under The Racer where Don walked us all over to Diamondback for some ERT. I got one ride in before 10 and after that I knew we were in for another great day. Here are some of the best pictures taken on day 2. This picture was a complete accident. What an accident it was though. I really like this picture. I call it Diamondbacks rain cloud. Possible contest photo #4 Possible contest photo #5 And now for the last of my pictures, Son of Beast's walckback photos. All in all these two days were the best two days I have ever had at any park period! Thanks to Don Helbig and KIC I will have some of the best memories of my life to share! I took over 200 pictures this weekend if you want to see the entire album here is the link. Unrealsk8er's RWW Album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki Man Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 This TR froze my computer twice, then gave it the blue screen of death....then froze it AGAIN! Try resizing the pictures so they aren't MASSIVE on the screen before KIC does the automatic resizing thumbnails, it'd help a LOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 Thats wierd I have photobucket set up to automatically resize them but I will go back in and resize the ones that I used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 I fixed them all. Thanks for letting me know the problem. It should load just fine now. Sorry if it caused your comp to crash. If you'd like to see any of the pics in a higher res just let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoeter Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Nice TR....glad you had fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki Man Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 All the pictures except for a few say 800x600. The rest are rediculous sizes like 3000x2000...I'm surprised I got this far. Well, it did take me 20 minutes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 They are all fixed when I look at them now. Are they not for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomkatt7 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Really good pics! I liked the one you had marked Photo Contest #2, with the tower and kiddie copters. The other one that I thought was really well done was the one with the tower in the background, and the Diambondback sign. But they were all really good. Another one that pops out (to me) is the one where you are looking up into the sun towards DB going over a hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperg Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 They are all fixed when I look at them now. Are they not for you? The pics are fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 Thank you^^. Sorry if it caused anyone else any inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
standbyme Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 ^You crashed my computer today...but now everything's good! Nice trip report! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Thank you! And sorry to everyone whose computer I crashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 So I finally finished the video using most of my photos. It's quite long seeing as I took A LOT of pictures. Well here it is enjoy. Or try to at least. name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropZone99 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Nice PTR/VTR! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Great musical choices, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Thank you guys! Angrybeaver it was a pleasure hanging out with you for part of the day on Sunday. Also thanks again or letting me borrow your batteries for my camera. Without them I wouldn't have gotten some of those pics of SoB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashers Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Great PTR! You got some really awesome shots! I love the one with the helicopters and the tower in the background. But I also love "Diamondback's raincloud" and the one where you are looking up at the sun and only the partial DB train is in the shot. Let us know which one you decide to choose! Glad you guys had a lot of fun. ~Ash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 I will let you guys know. I only have a few hours left to decide. I can't choose lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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