Today I went with my Mother to her work outing, the National City Family Fun Day. It's always fun as she pointed out that, yes I did once get a spin on the frontier lift and my favorite ride as a 3 year old was Sir Rub a Dubs Tubs. Go figure.
After a brief spin on corkscrew we headed to magnum which of course closed down as we were about to get in line! After a ride on Gemini and her favorite, Mine Ride, we went back to Magnum. She is deafly scared of heights and somewhere along this time I persuaded her to ride the big blue thing so we got a freeway stamp. One the way over, Banshee was closed so none of that. Our freeway time was 2-3 so we went around for a bit and rode Iron Dragon and Mine Ride again.
Then came the longest wait for the day GEMINI! 50 minutes. I don't even want to get into that now, it seems that every ride I walk by has something go wrong with it. This was the worst maintenance fiasco I have ever seen at the point. Here is a riddle. How many people does it take to fix Gemini? about 30 and even after that we managed to get stopped on the lift for 5 minutes. At this point even she cracked a joke "did they decide to do preseason maintenance this year or skip it?"
Walking back over to Millennium Force we noticed it was not running. When we get over there though Millie gets back up as I we were getting in line (me!!!, yes taking down the poster and throwing the tally counter in the corner worked!) and we entered the freeway line. They took Red off to change a wheel or something of that ordeal but they got it back on and it was running 3 trains today :).
Even though She had her head buried into the train down until after the 1st overbank, it was a hit with her. I still think the ride is slow and when hope the warm weather kicks it in it speeds up.
After that point everything worked good as we had a good meal at midway market, as well as rides on everything else but WT and Mean Streak. She said Mean Streak gives her a headache so she did not want to ride, lol .
I was very happy to see MF run 3 trains today and after the Gemini thing, everything wokred like a charm so I hope this is a sign of good things to come.
*** This post was edited by Joe E. 5/19/2002 9:22:43 PM ***
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