'Hey, we're in enemy territory! Those are enemy birds!' by Kara
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM

No previous rantage because Cox chose to live up to its name. Here we go, then.

Spent yesterday out with the Co-Writer with the Longest Hair during the first of his multiple promised park trips HINT HINT. Had fun. A few really weird things out at the Garden of Busches, though.

1. No grilled shrimp. Now this was foul and awful. Why was it gone? We were both looking forward to it. They had some sort of teriyaki shrimp kabob doo-dah going, but what the hell is that? It apparently had something to do with their furry fest summer wild animal exhibit. Not a good enough excuse.

2. The weather was gorgeous. Why complaining? Well, not complaining per se. But when you're told 60% chance of narsty storms, your general plan is to stay in. Sky was gloriously lovely when we woke up, so we decided to use what 'little' period of good weather we had at the park. Then it turned out to be massively gorgeous (albeit humid) all day. CWwtLH was only annoyed in that he wanted to bring Galeon down, but didn't because they were predicting nastiness last night and he didn't want to go home in it.

3. Odd line placement. We are coaster people, CWwtLH and I. We have spent some outings just going on the coasters. Which suits me fine. (The one show we'd considered seeing didn't have its first run until after we'd planned to leave, anyway.) Apollo's Chariot, check. Griffon, check. The park is actually fairly easygoing crowd-wise, possibly because everyone else actually believed the weather reports, so we hopped right through the lines on both.

Despite the awesomeness that is Griffon, one of my top faves is still the noticeably tamer but also wonderfully graceful Alpengeist. I'm a little attached to it because it's the coaster that got me over my fear of them. It's also been there since I was in high school (holy crap), so it's not exactly something everyone's crawling all over each other to get to.

Well, except for yesterday. The line was longer than Apollo's Chariot or Griffon. The line was, in fact, so long that we went on Griffon a second time while waiting for it to die down. Even with some technical difficulties that held things up for a bit, we still got through damn quickly. We went back past Alpengeist, and the line was longer.

DarKastle was about as busy as expected, so despite my inordinate love of it, we skipped that, too. The humidity made it not a standing-in-line day. As we passed the Big Bad Wolf on our way around the park again, we noticed ... the line for that was longer than the line for Alpengeist. The Big ... Bad ... fscking ... Wolf. I've driven through Williamsburg faster than that thing. But the line was out the whatsit for it. So we did the Loch Ness Monster, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year but also woefully neglected. Not that I was too bent-up over the line-skewage (Griffon twice? Oh, do I dare???), but come on. We still can't suss that one.

So now apparently I'm going to King's Dominion to see what they've got. But what we'd really like to do is hit the Busch Gardens in Florida and try those coasters. Griffon's older but tinier sister is there, I've heard, as is a pair of wooden duelling coasters. Wooden. I've never been on a wooden coaster and I'm dying to try. (There are three others not counting the little wild mouse thing they transferred down from BGE, which I'm not too interested in.)

Well, that and I intend to hit my home coasters as often as possible over the rest of the summer. And fall.

If you have been, I'm goin' SKIING!!!

I've got an engraved hair! by Mich
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 9:31 AM

Short rant cause I can't see out one eye at the moment. Need to stick a new contact in, but need to run out to Lowe's and stuff too.

Wig styling today, lots and lots of wig styling. And strange dreams.

At any rate, I'm off to run errands and stick a contact in so I can see again.

The Mich sees!

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