Opening Day Family Style:)
Well, as I sit here reading other opening day reports I felt I should share our experience.
Our family of four (myself, the wife, daughter, and son) arrived at the park around Noon. Crowd level was perfect a little bit of crowd for atmosphere but not for any long waits.
We live near the lake in C-Town so we knew to wear LONG pants and pack the sweatshirts...The wind was the only bad part of the weather...we didn't even walk through Kiddy Kingdom for fear of one of the kids becoming a kite.
We rode PLENTY, Blue Streak is giving a great ride this season. Daughter is now tall enough for MF but we decided to ride other things today and have a special MF day later in May.
Enjoyed the "Best Damn Band in The Land" perform at 1p.m. The OSU band just adds to the fun.
We walked the "newly repaved" trail and it was very pleasant pulling the wagon along a smooth surface.
Not a lot of "noticeable" changes to the park but everything looked great and ready for us...(except Johnny Rockets which has been mentioned elsewhere). We too miss the "cartoon" height sticks at the ride entrances.
Rode Gemini, (someday I'll catch that backwards train) and while on Gemini I saw the Spartan Tailgate party and kept "screaming" to the mob but to no avail.
Did see Pete from GTTP and walked into Red Garter and said Hello to Rob:)
Have to mention the meal we had at Midway Market...Now I know we all can't agree/nor understand the pricing of items at CP (sodas are now $2.50 in the machines) but the Midway Market is by far the best deal in the park and one of the best deals you'll find anywhere... With your Joe Cool Membership you buy 2 adult meals, receive one kids meal free...so for $25.00 we fed a family of four, it is all you care to eat along with FREE beverage refills...special GTTP kudos to DCahill for bringing Midway Market to my attention two years ago.
After a very filling meal, we strolled the whole park once more, watched Raptor from every angle possible, (6 year old son LOVES that ride and will sit and watch it for hours...hopefully when he is tall enough he will ride it!). Bought some Knotts Berry Farm jelly on the trail, rode a few whirl and hurls with the munchkins...finally made it back to the car around 7p.m.
Overall, it was another great day at the Point there were only a few indications you'd even know it was Opening Day (some of the rides had slow load/unload cycles which will pick up with practice)It is days like this that make CP special. Not many parks have the dust and grime from a winter scraped away so well on Opening Day
Someone previously mentioned the gardens...can't plant this early in Northern OH or you'll lose the flowers...Hey Walt what is the flower time table?
We look forward to many miles on the Midway this season.
Our family of four (myself, the wife, daughter, and son) arrived at the park around Noon. Crowd level was perfect a little bit of crowd for atmosphere but not for any long waits.
We live near the lake in C-Town so we knew to wear LONG pants and pack the sweatshirts...The wind was the only bad part of the weather...we didn't even walk through Kiddy Kingdom for fear of one of the kids becoming a kite.
We rode PLENTY, Blue Streak is giving a great ride this season. Daughter is now tall enough for MF but we decided to ride other things today and have a special MF day later in May.
Enjoyed the "Best Damn Band in The Land" perform at 1p.m. The OSU band just adds to the fun.
We walked the "newly repaved" trail and it was very pleasant pulling the wagon along a smooth surface.
Not a lot of "noticeable" changes to the park but everything looked great and ready for us...(except Johnny Rockets which has been mentioned elsewhere). We too miss the "cartoon" height sticks at the ride entrances.
Rode Gemini, (someday I'll catch that backwards train) and while on Gemini I saw the Spartan Tailgate party and kept "screaming" to the mob but to no avail.
Did see Pete from GTTP and walked into Red Garter and said Hello to Rob:)
Have to mention the meal we had at Midway Market...Now I know we all can't agree/nor understand the pricing of items at CP (sodas are now $2.50 in the machines) but the Midway Market is by far the best deal in the park and one of the best deals you'll find anywhere... With your Joe Cool Membership you buy 2 adult meals, receive one kids meal free...so for $25.00 we fed a family of four, it is all you care to eat along with FREE beverage refills...special GTTP kudos to DCahill for bringing Midway Market to my attention two years ago.
After a very filling meal, we strolled the whole park once more, watched Raptor from every angle possible, (6 year old son LOVES that ride and will sit and watch it for hours...hopefully when he is tall enough he will ride it!). Bought some Knotts Berry Farm jelly on the trail, rode a few whirl and hurls with the munchkins...finally made it back to the car around 7p.m.
Overall, it was another great day at the Point there were only a few indications you'd even know it was Opening Day (some of the rides had slow load/unload cycles which will pick up with practice)It is days like this that make CP special. Not many parks have the dust and grime from a winter scraped away so well on Opening Day
Someone previously mentioned the gardens...can't plant this early in Northern OH or you'll lose the flowers...Hey Walt what is the flower time table?
We look forward to many miles on the Midway this season.
Great Story Tim..I have a feeling I'll be spending plenty of those family style days real soon this year as my little girl Julia is walking all over the place now and loves cartoon characters..Can we say Camp Snoopy Daddy!!:) Thats OK though! Theres always trips with the gang for Coaster days!
Sorry we didn't hear you yelling at us from Gemini :)..Must of been that SPARTAN fight song playing in the background..haha
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http://www.msu.edu/~armbrus9/cp.html
mf laps = 100! No More No Less!!
Sorry we didn't hear you yelling at us from Gemini :)..Must of been that SPARTAN fight song playing in the background..haha
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http://www.msu.edu/~armbrus9/cp.html
mf laps = 100! No More No Less!!
I'm sure they'll be planting flowers all this week. It usually takes a good 6 weeks to put 35,000 flowers into the ground.
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VirtualMidway
http://www.virtualmidway.com
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VirtualMidway
http://www.virtualmidway.com
Yeah, it was good see everything so clean, but I couldn't believe it when I rode Raptor. Gum on the post by the steps already. Can't people throw their gum in the trash cans, or at least keep the park clean for one stinking day? I mean, after a week or two I could see gum being there, but not even getting through a day? Some people just don't have respect... Oh well, more ranting and raving from me. I guess it's all I can do to stay awake at work this morning.
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UCSigep
"Did you make a copy? Because if you made a copy, we could watch the copy."
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UCSigep
"Did you make a copy? Because if you made a copy, we could watch the copy."
Reminds me of the old days where my Mom, Dad and Brother use to go to the point *Sniff*
The results are in. Blue Streak is awesome this year!
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Lifetime Force Count-11
2001 Gemini Count-5
The results are in. Blue Streak is awesome this year!
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Lifetime Force Count-11
2001 Gemini Count-5
UCSIGEP-I do believe that for some unknown reason the Raptor riders think they need to trash the queues/posts/pop machines/under the stairs worse than any other ride. TRULY! There were some nights I could NOT believe the mess that queue was. Get used to it--as season goes on it gets worse.
EEEK
(I hate sweeping queues almost worse than crowd control):(
Jo
2000 Raptor Crew
2001 Raptor Crew
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If I cant ride it, rope it, pull a trailer behind it then I dont want it!! Cowgirl up!!
EEEK
(I hate sweeping queues almost worse than crowd control):(
Jo
2000 Raptor Crew
2001 Raptor Crew
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If I cant ride it, rope it, pull a trailer behind it then I dont want it!! Cowgirl up!!
Jeff S. says, "Sorry we didn't hear you yelling at us from Gemini ..Must of been that SPARTAN fight song playing in the background..haha"
Is that the same as the Funeral March?
Hey, Camp Snoopy is fun for the little ones and there are plenty of seats back there for us oldies...not much shade though...Now if we could just get a beer cart moved to Camp Snoopy...
*** This post was edited by Old Timer Tim on 5/7/2001. ***
Is that the same as the Funeral March?
Hey, Camp Snoopy is fun for the little ones and there are plenty of seats back there for us oldies...not much shade though...Now if we could just get a beer cart moved to Camp Snoopy...
*** This post was edited by Old Timer Tim on 5/7/2001. ***
Jo, I know it gets bad, I just never would have guessed it would be that way so soon! This was the first time I've gone up before Memorial Day.
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UCSigep
"Did you make a copy? Because if you made a copy, we could watch the copy."
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UCSigep
"Did you make a copy? Because if you made a copy, we could watch the copy."
Right after you left Tim.. The new Blue Tag form Garter (Corey) comes walking over to me and says..
"Now let me get this right.. RIch and the girls say you're here all the time and people actually KNOW to come here and find you?"
"Sure do.. and it'll be happening all year, and not just from the website I told you about"
"Wer're gonna get along just fine.. keep the customers coming"
It was weird...
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MF 2000 - 269 laps
MF 2001 - Double digits already.. and that's only the second day. :)
"Now let me get this right.. RIch and the girls say you're here all the time and people actually KNOW to come here and find you?"
"Sure do.. and it'll be happening all year, and not just from the website I told you about"
"Wer're gonna get along just fine.. keep the customers coming"
It was weird...
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MF 2000 - 269 laps
MF 2001 - Double digits already.. and that's only the second day. :)
Hey now Tim....:) Its the best darn Fight song in the Land....
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http://www.msu.edu/~armbrus9/cp.html
mf laps = 100! No More No Less!!
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http://www.msu.edu/~armbrus9/cp.html
mf laps = 100! No More No Less!!
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