And 'round and 'round and up and down we go again
I have a mathematics blog that hasn't been taken down or anything. Here's pictures from near the end of the day at Cedar Point, back in our September visit.
View of Corkscrew's spirals over top of the midway section there. The light's unusually pleasant for this, too.
And here's Matterhorn, another of Cedar Point's oldest flat rides and I think one that's getting relocated for next season?
Scrambler, soon to be Atomic Scrambler, in its last season in this spot.
And here on to the Kiddie Kingdom carousel! Where, for the first time the ride operator told us it was okay to take pictures on-ride, and somehow I failed to for some reason.
Another picture of the Kiddie Kingdom carousel, with the lead horse --- a model for one of the 1988 carousel stamps --- in blurry motion.
And here's the carousel in nice clean focus while not moving.
Picture of the Raptor launch station from when I hovered high above it.
Raptor train getting ready for launch and my first photo of the ride instructions sign in years. I don't think it's changed much.
Beneath Raptor's lift hill you can see one of the picnic pavilions that have survived; this one's used for park functions.
The Boardwalk Restaurant rising up where Wicked Twister used to be.
And here's the new construction as seen from the dispatch station for GateKeeper.
GateKeeper getting ready to launch, with the full moon far behind it.
Trivia: A robbery of the Great Eastern Mail stagecoach in 1818 got away with ninety thousand dollars. Source: The American Mail: Enlarger of the Common Life, Wayne E Fuller.
Currently Reading: Circling The Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger. There's some weird writing in this book, like, a particularly snide attitude toward the European Union's desire to have the Galileo satellite navigation system even though the United States had already built GPS and totally wasn't going to degrade it or turn it off except for a truly excellent and good and moral reason. Or the insistence on putting a citation in for every Biblical reference, so that I guess in case we hadn't heard about this Tower of Babel thing we would know where to look it up?