74Gibson Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 After a night of incredibly lucid dreaming, the alarm woke me up at 5:00 AM. I took a quick shower and headed off to pick up Justin my riding buddy. He brought along a blast from the past in Metallica's Master of Puppets… one of my favorite albums of all time! Hearing it again was so good that we missed a turn just past Neptune. We easily corrected and got stopped by this just before we got to 75. Later heading down 75 we got way too into Clutch's 1st album and missed 33 but took 71 and it will be our new route. Typical musicians... missing turns was our theme for the day We arrived at the park at 9:15. Here's a view from 71. A nice empty lot. We applied some sunscreen and heading in for Diamondback ERT. This random Thur. treated us so well. We got a ride on the first train of the day and a total of 7 rides during ERT. 2 consecutive re-rides on row 12 of green and after 15, on red another re-ride on green. I Love you Diamondback! We saw the GP rush the line and raced over to Flight of Fear. It was empty and we started n the front row. We barely fit J Hit the back row next… a 2 train wait for next to last seat and then a four or five car wait for back seat. Then it was off to Vortex in the 7th row. If I stay around that row I have a great ride experience but I'm 6' and Justin is 6'3"… The OTSRs hurt my shoulders and my legs feel like sardines in a can. The double flips were fantastic though! We were at 12 rides in 70 mins and lovin the day. The sky was beautiful and the weather was perfect. We hit BLSC twice and then headed for The Beast. I was in such a good mood the trims barely bothered me. Besides, I was fantasizing about the night ride that I knew would end our day. We wanted to ride Vortex again but it was so uncomfortable earlier we headed for Racer. Oh how I love The Racer. We started with red, of course and then Justin realized he had never ridden blue and I wasn't sure if I had. I know I rode Recar which I've read was on that side then but don't think I have ever been on the blue train. Justin had never ridden Adventure Express so I thought we should go. I usually find it boring and rough but this time I though it was pretty fun and quicker than I remembered. Goes to show how much expectations and mood change a ride. I must ride it at night! At this point we we're both pretty hungry so he headed out to our traditional lunch spot Ruby Tuesdays. They have a great salad bar and I filled up on that and Justin got the turkey minis combo. He hadn't had much sleep so we relaxed there for about 1.5 hrs and then went back to KI and napped in my car in until about 4:30. My Prius has proven to be about the perfect car. The seats go completely horizontal and you can even take out the head rests and then the front seats meet up with the rear. [/size] I'll post the evening report and more photos later, probably after Nigella's (my daughter) birthday party. It's her first and going to be quite an event!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBEW_Sparky Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 I was there on the 16th as well and, I dont know if you noticed, but to me it looked like everyone in the park drove three cars LOL. The parking lot was absolutely FULL with the exception of the lot right beside the entrance tolls... but the park was truly not that bad! Longest wait I had was 40 minutes for FoF around 230pm. I will definitely agree with you, Thursday was a really really good day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74Gibson Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 I never got around to posting a roll call for that day and I should've cause I ran into Kat late in the day (in line for DB of course). A lot of the crowd must have been in Boomerang Bay. Our final ride count was 31 and we spent a good 4 hours out of the park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violakat03 Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 I never got around to posting a roll call for that day and I should've cause I ran into Kat late in the day (in line for DB of course). A lot of the crowd must have been in Boomerang Bay. Our final ride count was 31 and we spent a good 4 hours out of the park. I stared at you for a good five minutes trying to figure out who you were. I knew I'd met you before - we met in at Flight of Fear during RWW. BTW, if you'd run into us just a couple hours earlier, I was with Jackson (Beast1979) and Adam (pkiboy), but they left at 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74Gibson Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 I knew I saw him, Jackson that is. That FOF marathon at RW was great! We did 8 laps if I remember right. Were you with XGator? I was going to text you and Angie to see if either were there but I walked my old phone into a pool and havn't gotten my contacts transferred yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violakat03 Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Walked your phone into a pool... now that's a description I haven't heard before! But then, my BlackBerry ended up in the shower yesterday morning and I still haven't figured out how. Amazingly, after dismantling it completely and letting it thoroughly dry before putting it back together, my phone works perfectly! And yes, 8 laps! And I was indeed with Gator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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