I played hooky from school just to be with you

I had an exhausting day of phone calls, some planned, with recruiters about jobs for the state of Michigan that I'll interview for and never get, plus the furnace guy coming and giving his evaluation of things, so I didn't have energy to write anything up. Have a bunch of photos from our Cedar Point trip that day there weren't any lines for anything, and we'll get back to Halloweekends Cedar Point soon.

Trains lined up to return to Maverick, and you can see some of the Old West-themed areas behind them. Also Steel Vengeance to the left of it all.

Freak Show style posters hung up for one of the haunted houses, the one set in what used to be the Frontier Carrousel building. bunny_hugger observed, correctly, that 'Bird-Man' doesn't fit the theme; he should have some alliterative name to match Cyclops Cindy, Sword-Swallowing Sid, and Reptile Remy.

Looking to the side of the Carrousel building and at the flying swings and, in the background, Maverick.

And then ... what's this? bunny_hugger was just talking about how they used to have a turkey at the petting zoo and look at what she's discovered in the shade there.

bunny_hugger opens negotiations to touch the turkey's knobbly head.

The turkey is skeptical of plans to touch its knobbly head, but bunny_hugger persists.

Turkey decided to sit down and not deal with this any further.

And then a chicken popped in from nowhere to visit!

Back to the amusement-park riding. Here's Millennium Force, and there should not be no line like this. This is a rare walk-on.

This nice nest of roller coasters includes ValRavn (up front), with the Power Tower behind (the four-legged dome in the middle distance), and what's left of Top Thrill Dragster far behind (the paperclip-like structure in the far background and tallest thing on the Point).

Again, another walk-on or near enough for ValRavn. You just do not see this queue space empty like that.

And here's the steps for the last approach to the station, amazing in their emptiness. We'd absolutely go this same day next season except the park's closed for a private buy-out event.

Trivia: Apollo Command Module 017 splashed down about 16 kilometers away from the prime recovery ship, the USS Bennington. Recovery took about two hours. Source: Chariots for Apollo: The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spaceflight to 1969, Courtney G Brooks, James M Grimwood, Loyd S Swenson, Jr.

Currently Reading: Circling The Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger.