I was supposed to go with 3 others who all flaked out and no one else could go, so for the 4th time this year, I spent a day at CP by myself. While it sucks not having anyone to talk to, I've learned to make the best of it.
Today was made great by many factors. First one, there were definitely a lot of other people that were in my similar situation. I saw a lot of definitely "by themselves" people wandering around, so that made me feel less alone. I also saw a lot of foreign park shirts (an Enchanted Villiage in Dragster at about 3:45 was the furthest and oddest, along with a Desparado on Dragster) and heard a lot of "enthusiast speak". People on Magnum naming coasters for every letter of the alphabet, people at Raptor actually getting stats right on coasters in the park, etc. So although I didn't say anything to anyone, perhaps someone here saw me ...
Which brings me to my next good "people" thing. The ops were very friendly today, but my attire probably helped that. I was wearing my Pitt Panthers football jersey (number 80 if you might have seen me) and that made a lot of the ops from Pitt say hi and engage me in conversation. So, that helped to pass some of the time ...
Leading to the second to last point. No one was here! I've seen Cedar Point empty before, but this was rather ridiculous! The parking lot was maybe 6 rows out when I got there at about 10:45, and it didn't fill much past that. The midways were wide open, freeways were in no way needed, and there was no wait for anything, it was like having the park to myself, which since I was there by myself made for a great riding day ...
Bringing up the last point, the rides today were incredible! I don't know if it was the great anticipation I had for today (I've been craving CP for a few weeks now) or something was actually different, but every ride was just HAULING! Mantis was in a form I haven't seen it since the first times I rode it, Raptor gave Talon a run for its money when it was getting its butt kicked a couple of weeks ago when I rode Talon. Mean Streak was even great, Dragster was wonderful, Millie and Maggie rocked, Corkscrew was one of the best rides I've had on it ever, even Iron Dragon was fun today! And I got another front seat Dragster, and rode Wicked Twister 6 times. And the waits were non-existant - none to station for every ride but Millie and Dragster: 15 min. for regular Millie, 30 for front seat, 25 min. for regular Dragster, 50 for front seat.
Awesome, awesome day at CP, one of the best ever, and I even got some great new pictures and a video of Dragster and WT. I can't wait for Scream Team weekends ...------------------
Resident Launch Whore
--Brett
I wanted to make it there on the 13th or 14th of this month...however; by the time we all rolled out of bed on the 13th, we just plum forgot. And the 14th we were VERY busy that day. Darnitall... I will NOT miss another day like this ANYTIME I have a season pass... it's too good of a day to pass up! Too late now...Now Halloweekends are upon us. But I think I will try this "Friday" thing out...seems alot of people state the park is "dead" on Halloweekend Fridays. We shall see.
DARN IT! DARN IT! DARN IT! I shouldn't have missed that one!!! I'm sure it's the same each year...I even thought "well, the beautiful weather...everyone will be there, they were there more than usual on Tuesdays and Wednesdays this year...so I'm probably not missing out on much THIS weekend either. shoot shoot shoot!!!!!!!!!!!
::running away to kick myself::
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Let's play "Find the one-legged seagull"
Got our fill of rides and left around 1:30 after many rides, and a few good games of skeeball.
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Town Mark: "How long is this ride?"
Op: "About 55 feet give or take"
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