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Post June 11th, 2009, 9:30 pm
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yesterday i ditched work and headed up to knott's for a day of mirth and excitement with oscar and tconwell..
when i arrived at 945 or so my hopes of 'having the park to ourselves" were nearly crushed . even though MOST of the time a weekday is perfect, yesterday was 6th and 8th grade graduation day at knott's. .. suffice to say there seemed to be 1 adult for every 100 kids. this actually didnt turn out as bad as we thought, and to be honest, even though kids annoy me, it actually livened up the park a little..
tj wasnt expected to show till early afternoon , so oscar and i did typical knott;s picture taking stuff, until the lure of ghostrider was unbearable..
listen close people.. get to knotts.. ghostrider should be showing up on lists again.. there was a lot of very visible recent track work. i swear on the calico log ride that it's much much smoother than it was last year, in fact i'd say that i dont remember it being that smooth since aroud '00. to top it off i got to ride the copper train for the first time this visit. sadly ( or happily depending on hopw you look at it) the legendary silver train was not on the track, and that can make a lot of difference.. but i swear that ride fails to dissapoint and yesterday it actually impressed me in a way it hasn't for years.
then we decided to check out pony express. last year when we visited it was a week from it's opening , so we missed it. this ride was, well... "unique". i suppose it can be listed as a "tweener " ride, something between jaguar (which none of us could fit in ) and mmm.. silver bullet .. it was fun but insanely short, and not really too exciting .. if it didnt have such an interesting seating arrangement the word to describe it would be "SUCK" , however the restraint system was interesting enough to make us notice. over all i'd say that it was a good idea, while a little tame and suprisingly short it is innovative and definitely a general public pleaser ..
oscar and i made the decision to ride some flats, including the mexican hat dance.. that's basically an old Chance teacup style ride .. we looked at it and decided "ooh .. that doesnt look like it spins too bad " we forgot to notice that while we were watching it that it was full of little kids with the strength of a hamster.. i think i almost made oscar puke and vice versa.. we had the thing spinning like mad. unlike disneyland's famous arrow built teacups this one does not seem to have a rev limiter. it'll go as fast as you can make it go.. well after that it was time to met tj at the gate, and a
second ride on ghostrider.. tj and i have at least one common ground, and that is this ride .. to top it off my first ride with tj was also my first ride in the eliusive copper train.. the new trackwork is very visible here, and it's effect on the ride experience was ver very noticeable ..
after that xcellerator.. and lunch.. the best part of the day started here . as we walked back from lunch we saw the busses being loade .. the kids all had to go home .. he he .. the line for ghost rider went from 20 minutes to walk on .. and silver bullet was a walk on as well.. in all i got 5 rides on ghost rider,
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oscar has video.. he oughta post that
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Post June 11th, 2009, 11:58 pm

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Oscar, get that damn video up already! Anyways, it looked like you guys had fun that I wish I coulda had. Good to know. Nice pics btw. [:)]

Post June 12th, 2009, 12:28 am

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Dude, get the video up from last year hahah.

You guys are lame. Way to plan the trip around when Tcon was in town instead of when it was best for me..

Post June 12th, 2009, 12:58 am
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hate to say it ,ghostrider was running much, much better this time .. they did alot of work!

Post June 12th, 2009, 5:59 pm

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GR was simply amazing ... just glorious!!


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Post June 12th, 2009, 7:32 pm
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Where are the photo's from t-con? [lol] I only see photo's from you jay and oscar [lol]

Sounds and looks like ya'll had a good time. Maybe there is some small possibility that I could meet up with you fella's again. [:)]
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Post June 12th, 2009, 7:43 pm
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Post June 12th, 2009, 7:55 pm

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Post June 12th, 2009, 9:15 pm
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love the difference in crowds in the ghostrider que pics..good times !

Post June 13th, 2009, 2:48 pm

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Humm, looks like you guys had fun. Wish I could have joined you guys.

Post June 13th, 2009, 3:47 pm
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all you would have had to do is had the day off and ask for a ride ..

Post June 13th, 2009, 3:55 pm

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Dang! So all I had to do was ask, and you would have given me a ride all the way from st. louis?

Post June 13th, 2009, 4:02 pm
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no.. bobbyjo lives about 13 miles away, you would be on your own.. t conwell made it .. he even arranged official military business around the trip, so there really isnt any excuse ..

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Yeah. [lol]
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Post June 13th, 2009, 4:35 pm

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TConwell doesn't have his picture taken, he's a secret agent you know.

Post June 16th, 2009, 9:07 pm
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oh you kids. all you do is just go to theme parks all day.

Post June 16th, 2009, 9:29 pm
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shut up, grunt.now go back to blowing up the world... [lol]

Post June 17th, 2009, 12:02 am

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Hah, my dad wouldn't let me go alone with someone he doesn't know. He's super sensitive about those kinds of things [:|]

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Originally posted by bobbyjo

Hah, my dad wouldn't let me go alone with someone he doesn't know. He's super sensitive about those kinds of things [:|]


Just say than that you are going alone to the park, just to ride xcelerator and ghostrider tons of times. But when you're there, you'd suddenly see 3 other members from coastercrazy.com. And you join in that meeting! Simple! [lol]
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Post June 17th, 2009, 12:47 pm
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Jayman you killed your psuedo-mullet. WTF man?
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Post June 17th, 2009, 5:01 pm

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We laughed hysterically at that CKMWM ... all of course behind his back.
Have him tell the story, apparently he made his hair dresser mad.


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Post June 18th, 2009, 9:06 pm
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