June 25th + Photos

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It was finally time to go to CP!

So we get on the bus around 6:00AM and head for the park. We got there around 9:30, so we had about a half hour before the park opened. This gave me time to mess around with my camera for a minute, while my friend went to the bathroom.

Well,they finally opened the gates, and we started walking towards TTD. We realized that everyone else was running behind us though, so we took off running also. When we got to TTD, we realized that there were already early entry people there waiting for it. We got in line, and waited for TTD to finish testing. We ended up waiting about a half hour for a great ride.

Thenwe walked back to Magnum....and found out it was closed....I was prettymad, but we decided to go back to Maverick, which made it all better. We waited about an hour and a half for an amazing back row ride.

Next we went to Skyhawk and waited a few cycles. I managed to grab a seat in the farthest left seat.

We then decided to hit up Panda Express for some lunch. But then I noticed this along Frontier Trail...

OMG digging flags. No idea what for, but oh well.

Then we had to go check in, after that we got in line for Raptor. The line said an hour and 15 minutes, but my friend really wanted to ride it.

OH no, empty train!

Then rain hit, and Raptor went down. We decided to wait it out in line, and managed to go from about an hour wait to in the station while people left. I got bored, and started taking pics.

The ride ops told us that other stuff was opening, while Raptor was going to be down a while, so we left and headed towards MF.

We were greeted by a 2 hour line, so we hopped over to Mantis to find a one hour line. We didn't want to wait for that, so we went to see if Magnum opened yet...nope...We finally broke down and rode Power Tower teal side as something to do. It was fun, but not too great.

Then we headed back to MF to find an hour wait. We waited for the front row,so it ended up being about an hour and a half. I was completely amazed.The whole ride felt so fast, and we actually got amazing floater air onall of the airtime hills. I will have to say that it was the best ride of my life.

Yay for Intamin!

Next,we decided to head over to Mantis. The sign said 45 min, so we were content to wait that one out. A decent ride on Mantis, but what happened in the station was better than the actual ride. All of the ride-ops were amazed by my Banshee t-shirt, and they thought that it was just the coolest thing ever. It wasn't only the Mantis crew who noticed though. The Raptor and MF crews also thought my shirt was sweet.

We still needed to get Raptor in, so we scooted back to the front of the park. We waited an hour, and only had to wait one extra train for the front row. It was a lot smoother than last year, so we got a pretty nice ride out of it.

After Raptor, we had about an hour before we had to leave, so we went to check Disaster Transport so my friend could witness the failure of a ride that it is. DT was also closed, but we didn't really care. We just kept on walking by, and went to WT to find the usual 15 min wait. Rode it in the 2nd to back row.

We didn't know what to do with the next 30min, and then I saw Blue Streak.It was its usual walk on, so we hopped in the back row. All I can sayis what happened. Blue Streak was insanely rough. I don't know if itwas just because we did it back row or if the rain affected it, but it was rougher than any of my rides on Mean Streak.

After Blue Streak my friend grabbed a hot dog. We headed towards the Pagoda Gift Shop, and I grabbed a Mav key chain and a CP key chain for my sister.We were getting ready to leave, and then I saw Toft's Ice Cream Parlor.It sounded really good, so we went in. My peanut butter cup shake was great. Also, they had a sweet sign with a cow in sunglasses.

We turned around and opened the door to find a little surprise...it was pouring outside. We ran out of the park trying not to get soaked. The rain was falling so hard that it actually hurt to run into it. We got onto the bus safely, changed into our sweatshirts, and started the ride home.

If you didn't read all of that, here are some quick notes:
Magnum+Disaster Transport=Closed
Wildcat=Open again
There are miss dig flags on Frontier Trail
Panda Express is good
Front row MF is amazing
Raptor doesn't run in rain

Thanks for reading!

It sounds like you guys had a great time! Nice pics too. Random TR pics like that help me get through these withdrawls. lol.

Great TR. Man, those pics really make me miss CP even though it's only been a month since I've gone. I will definetly be going in August and hopefully once in July.

How did you get a decent ride on Mantis? I stood in the second row and had a terrible time. Which row is good?

Thanks. It looked a lot better when the pics were embedded into the TR, but oh well. Sorry for some of the words getting put together, that happened when I pasted it.

EDIT: I fixed most of the mistakes, but there might still be some.

I guess I just don't mind Mantis. I actually find it fun.

Just ride power tower to look for short lines. You can spot depending on the seats...

Maxair / Wicked Twister (but not Raptor), Top Thrill Dragster, and Millennium Force lines are all visible from the teal Power Tower side.

factory, just get your friends to sit on different sides of power tower so you can see nearly all the lines.

Haha, were you the guy with the Banshee shirt? I took your picture over by Maxair :P

Yep that was me. And yes you did take my pic by maXair.