PKI on 10/11

[gabelogan99]

Well, as I kinda eluded to in a couple of posts last week, I went to PKI yesterday and had a great time. My group of six (all family members) got to the park at a little past nine in the morning and waited by the rope near the Tomb Raider statue. The first thing I did, however, was I stopped over by the near store on International Street to buy a couple of batteries for my camera and it still didn't work so I had no camera that day. I was pretty sad. I noticed that the bees were kinda bad as I was standing there near the statue actually closer to the clock I guess and hopped that they wouldn't bee to awfully bad as the day progressed and they really weren't. Usually, we stand by the rope near where you can enter Action Zone so I noticed this time that there isn't as much of a build up over by the clock. The rope dropped and everyone scurried off to their destination. My group headed to The Beast. We were on the second load of the day and we were towards the front. It was really a great ride but midway through my fanny pack carrying a few items, including my camera, came undone and I had to toss it to the floor to keep it from flying off when we got on the helix. (I was sitting on the inside seat so it probably would have fell out.) So, when I got back to the station I had to get in a funny position to get the pack from under the seat and from then on I had the clasp of the thing shoved way down in my pants and didn't have any problems. I didn't really understand the concept of putting those things through your belt loops until it just kinda occurred to me at the end of the day and nobody informed me of that before so I guess I'm just an idiot. It did fine the rest of the day. We got off of The Beast and got right back on it for a quick second ride. This time I was in the second to last seat and my aunt was in the very back. So we got off The Beast and headed over to Vortex and did not have a wait. I've always hated going up that first hill on Vortex, but it wasn't too bad this time. After Vortex it was time to check out Spongebob 3D. I liked the scenery over there as one of my old pals from Phantom Theatre was standing out there with the rest of the gouls. A great treat but not a surprise as someone from here posted it. Spongebob was pretty cool but those glasses hurt my eyes and I'm sure it's just my eyes because they're weird. Overall, though, Spongebob was pretty good but I really do miss Days of Thunder (I know, going back to old times...) After Spongebob, it was over to The Racer. recaR wasn't running which was kinda a relief because I really do not care for it. It messes up my back or something, I don't know. Next it was Adventure Express. Great coaster and always has been. There was no wait for it either and there wasn't a wait for Spongebob. We shot over to La Rosas in Rivertown after that. Man was it a lot better than when we ate La Rosas in the Festhaus last year!! It was really a lot cheesier and generally a lot better. I thought the bees might be bad over there but the weren't terrible. We decided to catch the train after lunch. We got on in Rivertown and I was personally pretty annoyed with the soundtrack on the train, but at least it was a "unique" experience. We got off in Ghastly Grove and headed to Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle. It was a long line extending outside but it moved quickly. When we got inside, it was kinda sad because I saw where the maestro used to sit and play his organ but I didn't see the maestro of course. The hall isn't lined with photos of old performers anymore either but it does kinda sound like they're using a little bit of the old que line soundtrack that the did in Phantom Theatre. Scooby was pretty good. Someone posted that the track goes in reverse of what Phantom Theatre did, but it doesn't. I got 930 points on my shooting spree. Not too bad of a replacement for PT, but still it's kinda sad. My first time on that one. We went over to Huckleberry Dairy after Scooby and got some blueberry ice cream: an old time favorite. Great treat for a great value! We sat under that thing behind Huckleberry Dairy and I remembered that they didn't used to have tables over there. After our treat, we head over to FoF. Not much of a wait. They changed the restraints on FoF. I knew this but I forgot so I was kinda confused when I got in there and someone had to help me. I like these a lot better because they're obviously not as rough on the head. Great coaster, FoF is. Me and my aunt had the very back. FoF is very unique and has always been a favorite of mine. Then we went to Dodgem. I hit one person pretty good but they're really still the same old slow cars. I noticed while I was on them that the Old Fashioned Cars weren't runnning and wondered why. Then we headed over to Top Gun. No wait up there either. I still like the very beginning of Top Gun where it feels like you're fling out acrossed the land. It's a pretty good feeling I've always thought. After that, we went over to the Stunt Crew Grill for drinks. We made our plans, as four of us would be going over to Timberwolf to catch the concert. I wasn't one of the four. Me and my dad sepparated from the other four after another meeting in Festhaus where my brother and cousin had a little snack. There was nobody in Festhaus at around this time: 4PM. So anyways me and dad went over to Son of Beast. WOW. A lot rougher than I remember it. It was really great and it didn't hurt me as much as I thought it might. We rode towards the front and I wondered how rough it would be in the back. When we got off and got to the ORP stand, there was a security guy up there giving this one guy the devil for giving the camera the finger. Right before you go up the very first hill isn't really the best place for an ORP, but oh well. I guess it does start out kinda fast and that's how they get away with it. Me and dad decided to watch a couple of races on the Days of Thunder track. I noticed how ticked off the ride ops get when people hit other cars but they've really got to realize that a lot of those people who drive those cars are die hard race fans and they're in it to race. It's not always clean but then again neither is real stock car racing. OK enough about that. Me and dad headed over to Scooby for a second ride. Dad took all my points this time as I only got 330. I really do enjoy how some things change if you shoot them right, well you know what I mean. Me and dad went to The Beast next, after deciding Runaway Reptar might not be that great of a choice maybe it is I don't know. We got in the line but it was kinda long and I didn't wanna risk it so we went to The Beast. They had a little portion of the line opened up after the line of Coke machines, more than they did that morning. It wasn't a long line though really. We had a great third ride on The Beast and then went over to Coney Mall to check out the line of Vortex. It was long so we didn't do it. Then we thought we'd go and do Spongebob but they changed it to the other thing sorry don't remember the name. This is when the park really started to get crowded as the line for FoF was really big too as were a lot of the lines for the Fear Fest stuff so we decided to leave Coney Mall (what does the distorted sign say?) and we went to the Festhaus for a little grub. Man there were a lot more people in there by now. We still didn't wait long to get our food though. I went with the bacon cheeseburger and some fries. The meal gave me the boost I needed to finish the day. Me and dad went over to Adventure Express and it was a longer wait than before. At least there was entertainment on the tube: Michael Jackson turning into a wherewolf (OK seriously what in the hell is that all about?) but we didn't wait long for the ride. It was really great. I have never been on a coaster in the dark before. I started thinking that it would be a better way to scare people at Halloween if they decorated the rides, AE would be a great one, and program some things to jump out and stuff like that. I didn't do any of the Fear Fest stuff. Really didn't have much of an idea that it was Fear Fest until we got to the park that morning. Can't comment on all the spooky stuff but it looked like it sure drew a big crowd. We did Son of Beast next. That is really cool at night. I wondered why there weren't lights on the hill though. It made it hard to see if they were running it as I was trying to figure that out when I was in line for AE. Anyways it was the best ride of the day. It was pitch black and the moon had an orange tint to it. Perfect for the season, right? Well my aunt called as we got off SoB and told me they were heading to The Beast. Problem was, by that time everyone from the concert was heading there too. They decided to pass on The Beast and she called me back to tell me this and to tell us to meet them outside the first shop on International Street. While me and dad were sitting on the bench, a PKI employee gave us a survey to fill out about Fear Fest but we really weren't a huge help as we didn't do any of the stuff. We filled it out anyways and then the rest of the gang showed up mom got something in the store and I thought about getting one of those "punk" orange-gold PKI shirts but didn't. The fountains were pretty cool I thought. It has been ages since I've stayed at the park that late--possibly over ten years. So we left at around 9:30. Overall: great time at PKI.

[BoObKiNoS]

I'm too lazy to read all of that. Let me know when the cliff notes come out.

[SOB_TOM]

About DOT: You are told not to bump. If you bump, they can kick you off the ride. End of discussion. Those are the ride rules, and if you dont like them, tough.

No ride on TRTR? Im disappointed.

[Beastfreak]

Paragraphs possibly?

[DragonLord]

About DoT: do not bump! The riders are told not too and people don't realize that the cars actaully go pretty fast and that they can hurt people when they bump into them. They are not big bumper cars! We can (and have before) kicked people out of the park for being too ruff on DoT. Mostly because the guets couldn't get it through there thick heads not to bump other people.

I was in the concert as well from about 3:30-4 till 9:30-ish Then I went back into the theme park. The concert was pretty cool... it was the first time I worked any Spirit Song concert without being called a nasty name. The crowd was really good, I didn't really have to fuss at anyone. I also regretted having to go back into the Theme Park b/c of the crowds. I much prefer the single digit thousands we had in Timberwolf compared to what we had in the park!

I'm surpised you didn't try to go through any of the houses... considering that fact that three of the opened at three and you could have gone through at least one! The Les Taxis, or Antique Cars, were closed because they are a fearfest attraction and they opened at 8pm with the rest of the houses.

[gabelogan99]

Sorry it took me so long to reply. I don't really think that people try to intintinally others on DoT (someone will argue otherwise and if they don't it's because of spite LOL). I just think people get caught up in the moment and everyone seems to follow the same line and that's because they want to "win" and thats why accidents happen. The two wrecks that I saw were because of this reason (one car got spun). OK thats all I got to say thanks for clearing up the Les Taxis confussion DL.

Paragraphs add nothing, just appearance making it look better, yeah I understand. Usualy if I do that it's because I can't find a good way to make paragraphs.