He'll search in every pumpkin patch, haunted houses far and near

You maybe noticed my mathematics blog hasn't updated a lot lately. So let's look at Halloweekends' Sunday stuff instead.

Pumpkin monster that I try to photograph every year. This might be my best shot. What's going on here is their legs are folded up, backwards, going to their chest. The shape makes sense in person.

Skeleton horses 'pulling' a coach at the Frontier Town haunted attraction. bunny_hugger observed the most important thing this scene gets right: the ears don't have bones.

While we sat and rested a bit, there was some kind of argument going on between other people, severe enough that security came over to separate them and talk them down. We tried not to watch too closely since we didn't want to get roped into the drama, of course. Anyway this picture's of one of the security people talking with some folks who seemed peripherally involved, like maybe friends of one of the people in the argument. Maybe gross to linger over things like that but we'd never seen anything like that at Cedar Point before.

One of the banners letting people leaving the haunted Frontier Town area know that the theming was getting less intense now.

In the other direction, you get fair warning that there's going to be more intensely Halloween stuff going on, although performers and such don't come out until after dark.

Someone in a purple dragon(?) costume waiting outside the bathrooms. We've got to use this chance to go to a park in costume next year.

Park person at Gemini picking up litter from the infield.

Ride operators on the closed side of the Gemini ride; I kept hoping this meant they were going to start doing test trains or something but if they did, we never saw it.

Some of the new decorations for the Magnum XL-200 coaster are posters like this that are, or at least suggest, engineering schematics from the ride's construction. This might be a picture of the coaster clear enough to let you make an accurate rendition in Roller Coaster Tycoon.

We got front-seat rides, which we never do on Magnum these days!

Also the coaster was not busy; it's amazing how quick the queues are considering it's a big, exciting, and rather good ride.

Picture of the very start and the very end of the Magnum ride. The last bit of fun to it is this series of bunny hops and some tunnels.

Trivia: Britain in 1851 had about 16,000 lawyers (not counting judges) and 1700 law students, 17,000 physicians and surgeons and 3500 medial students and assistants, under 3,000 architects, and about 1,300 'editors and writers'. Source: The Age of Revolution, 1789 - 1848, Eric J Hobsbawm.

Currently Reading: King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut, Mark Davies.