We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity

We did more things at Seabreeze Park, certainly, even counting our time walking around enjoying the location and re-riding Bobsleds or Jack Rabbit or the carousel. There's Tilt, for example, the Tilt-a-Whirl, which with a name like that ought to be pinball-themed. I'm not sure how to describe Tilt's theme, exactly, beyond that it is a Tilt-a-Whirl that looks more modern than your run-of-the-mill ride. Maybe it's just that the sign looks like it's from the 90s rather than from the 50s.

We also took a ride on the log flume, which tells you something about how hot and sunny the day was. But it was your classic sort of log flume, with the smaller boats, the kind that were built everywhere from the 60s to the 80s and are evaporating from parks now. Seabreeze's opened in 1984, replacing what park information tells us was a ``similar water ride known as 'Over the Falls','' and we don't know how similar. The ride isn't a long one, or particularly scenic; it goes around a small lake that's not much useful for anything besides that and the miniature train ride. But, besides its historic appeal, it does take you nice and close to less accessible parts of the Jack Rabbit coaster, particularly the tunnel near its end, and that would be worth it alone.

And it turned out more fun than we expected. We ended up sharing a log with a man and woman and the man was clowning it up, in that happy and inviting way some people have. I think the woman hadn't been on the log flume before and was none too sure about the ride, but he had that confidence that it would be fun that coaxed her into trying. Also to talking with us about the ride, which I think we'd ridden in 2019 despite that being a cool and overcast day. When we splashed down he asked if we had all gotten wet enough and splashed water from the trough back at us, more welcome than you'd think just for sharing this exuberant moment is all.

As I alluded to we also rode on the miniature railway. This didn't get us any close encounters with anyone wanting to be sure we were having fun too. Mostly it was a chance for us to wonder about the turkey theming on some of the cars, half of which had roofs and the other half open to the sky. And, of course, fresh looks at the roller coaster tunnel, and at people riding the lift up to the top of the log flume.

And we spent time looking at the redemption games, at least. Poked into the game center, hoping as ever for pinball, and this time coming up with none. It looked to me like the same set of games they had on our 2019 visit, even as the prizes themselves rotated slightly into more current fads. There's something with plush dolls that look like twist-tie balloon dogs, I don't know. Ended up not playing that, but also looking over the other midway games and not quite being tempted into playing them.

At some point during the day was an acrobatics show on the performance stage. We saw bits of that, but always along the way to something else we were figuring to do, most likely the Jack Rabbit or the Bobsleds coaster (which are nearly at opposite ends of the park). It's a bit of shame that we didn't have time to see this, or really focus on any shows, this trip. But we did at least see them in passing and could confirm it's the sort of amazing trampoline-assisted gymnastics that show people climbing the walls, or bouncing back onto them. Exciting stuff.

Also we got to see the park by twilight. Not really night; the park was closing at 9 pm and that far north it wasn't too dark yet. But we could see the light dimming, and the park and ride lights turning on, so we had our taste of the night time.

We'd soon have to decide how we would end the park trip, and the last of our scheduled amusement park visits.

Now to get up to the storm that opened our day at Canada's Wonderland.

Geese deciding they'll enjoy a nesting spot outside the queue for Great Canadian Minebuster.

Minebuster train heading out. We're hopeful we'll get a ride in before the rain!

Meanwhile, Yukon Striker pauses just before dropping its train down its first drop. The pause before the drop is the big gimmick of this style coaster and this angle makes one realize that though the front seat especially makes you think you're being held facing straight down, this is an illusion; you're not even at a 45 degree angle pointing down!

Next train! If we're lucky we can get out before the rain is too hard! We do not.

Manufacturer's plate giving information about the train. Shooting Star is the name of the roller coaster from the old Coney Island park at the Queen City, on which this coaster was (loosely) based.

bunny_hugger looking like a bunny that's been for a swim, after the cloudburst that lasted pretty much exactly for the duration of our ride.

Trivia: In the early 1400s for reasons not recorded the priests of the Chapel On The Bridge were ``unjustly and maliciously suspended'' by the Church. The Wardens of London Bridge had to purchase absolution for them. Source: Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe, Patricia Pierce.

Currently Reading: New Brunswick, New Jersey: The Decline and Revitalization of Urban America, David Listokin, Dorothea Berkhout, James W Hughes. Wait, four-fifths of all the office space ever built in New Jersey was built between 1980 and 1990? ... I ... thought it seemed like a lot of office complexes went up then but still, that seems dramatic.