Raptor Jo's 800th+ flight - Sept 26th
Would Raptor Jo get her 800th Raptor ride?
I was certainly assuming on drive with b/f Eric to CP yesterday it was going to be a better day than last Friday was. I was determined to get my 800th Raptor ride!!!
High Po!nts:
Obviousely spending more time with my b/f is always a high
point to me. Happy to see Raptor had 3 trains on, however, check Low Po!nts to get more technical on THAT. Was great hooking up with some of my CP
buds, Matt (Hooper) Dave (DodgeEmDave) and Greg (no screen name) Saw plenty of other Po!nters through out the evening. We saw Mr Skyward in the queue line, (sporting his Halloweekends shirt) imagine how honored he felt
when we were coming down the exit ramp, we screamed out his name, he looked up at us and we all waved at him. It was a blast as always hanging out with all my CP buds, the stories and laughs were a plenty, my b/f fits right in
with all of them!
My goal for the night was to get my 800th Raptor ride...
it took me 3 hours to get a simple 8 rides in. For my 800th ride my b/f and I decided to do the front car, when that train came back into the station the ride op announced to the station that that was my 800th ride. Was that spotlight over yet? Heck no, for when I did my 801st, and 802nd it was announced again. Such the life of a celebrity! ;) So the highest po!nt of my evening ever was getting my 800th+ Raptor ride and despite all the low points still managing to get 11 more flights in before nights end. The crew is wired up about me returning next week and I can't wait to be part
of that crew again either!! :) Towards nights end Eric and I rode WT, Cedar Downs and even Matterhorn. Getting Eric on Raptor in the rain was great...I purposely let him have an outside seat and he got drenched! Pigging out on funnel cakes and elephant ears was great! Nothing like getting your daily allowence of fried dough! Yummy!
Low Points:
WTH is up with Raptor? Joe Cool Club-great! Get on train-floor drops-no train. Train 3 decides to poop out just when I was ready to ride. Raptor down mechanical. T! No Joe Cool for me :( I was however the only guest who waited on the platform so got to talk to the crew and had a blast planning my wedding. No further comments there, we were just having fun. Park opens to GP-Raptor
running again.. As the evening progressed, it was 2 trains, 3 trains, back to 2 trains. They actually unloaded one of my trains on the runway and their TL decided to blame ALL of Raptor's woes on ME! Telling me every time I've
ridden the ride had jacked up! I actually started to believe that! It seems to me that this season and last season Raptor so not up to par. Raptor has always been one of the most reliable rides in the park but for the past 2 years maybe it's age is catching up with it, or maybe CP had invested so
much money and effort in TTD the other rides suffer? On the flip side it was a relief to see almost walk ons on Raptor, but pissed me off all the down time. I managed 11 rides but again if it was a TYPICAL Halloweekend
Friday nights I should have easily been able to get 30-40 more flights. 11 flights certainly better than the pathetic 1 flight from last week! There was this smoking chick in thongs, proving what selfish, inconsiderate and immature imbasils some humans can be. I'll let Hooper explain the whole story there since I'm sure the "show" she put on was NOT for me, or ANY female for that matter. There was rain, the good thing was it didnt start till after 10pm-the bad thing was it came down in BUCKETS!! By 10:30 the
lightning started, so much for any more rides. We left park around 11, the drive home was the worst drive EVER for both of us, when I say it POURED I mean it POURED the WHOLE time home. My truck hydroplaned many times, Eric refusing to put on the 4 wheel drive-typical male.
Visability as 0 at times and what is supposed to be a 2.75 hour trip took us 3.5. I was never so happy I wasn't driving! Blech! :( I know the park appeared to have it a tad more together than last weekend, and that's good news!
Thanks to Eric for making my 800th ride even more fun for me, he is becoming quite the Po!nter and he is making me quite the Buckeye fan :)
Thanks as always to my CP buds for another great time, put away that pinkie Dave!
Thanks to CP for the Raptor 3 train operation ATTEMPTS! And be prepared for Raptor Jo to bust your chops about getting the Raptor pumpkin IN the control booth where it belongs!!!
Best question of the evening:
"Why does Dorney have the ba**s to tear down
their crap woody and bring on a B&M floorless while we're still looking at MS???"
Jo
2000 Raptor Crew
2002 Raptor Crew
2003 Raptor Crew
Lifetime Raptor flights: 803 :)
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It's all about getting around the barrels, or over the fences, right leads, no faults, fastest time and looking pretty when done. What's so hard about that? :)
But the difference I saw and liked was CP putting the third train on Raptor with about a 10 minute line. Maybe a little less. Then it went off when the train had some problem. Still more fog would have been nice. But it was more like CP this friday.
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"This second hill is my favorite part of the ride. It is so Cool!"
TTD Status: "Contaminates in the system" S.K. Per my conversation
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