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Day 3, 6/27/12

SeaWorld San Diego, Belmont Park and Mission Beach

 

We started the day with another stop at In-N-Out where we tried the fries Animal Styled. It's really worth trying.

 

We made it to SeaWorld San Diego around 2pm.

 

We did the Sky Tower first.

 

From the Sky Tower you can get a perfect view of Manta

 

View of Sesame Street Bay of Play and Journey to Atlantis in the background.

 

 

The newest attraction to Seaworld San Diego is Manta.

 

There is a small section of interior queue at Manta where you walk by sting ray tanks. This is the only part of this attraction that makes Manta similar to Seaworld Orlando's Manta.

 

The rest of the queue is outside and in the middle of the coaster.

 

Manta is a Mack Launched coaster.

 

It goes 43mph and only as high as 50 feet. But don't let that fool you, it was much more intense than we thought it would be.

 

Manta is Asian themed. Yup...that's my caption.

 

The pattern on the ceiling of the station was pretty neat.

 

Manta has unique restraints. The seats are high up in an open car, and the lap bars come from above.

 

The ride goes into a dark ride portion before it launches.

 

The coaster has two launches and stays close to the ground.

 

Like all new rides, Manta has it's technical issues. A little after we rode Manta it went down and didn't reopen during the remainder of our stay at SeaWorld.

 

Here's Blue Horizons. We have it in Orlando too....moving on.

 

Shipwreck Falls is the park's rapids ride.

 

 

We went over to Journey To Atlantis, but what do you know, it was down!

 

We'll check back later.

 

So we went over to Wild Arctic

 

We decided to skip the simulator because it's the same one as Orlando...and it's awful.

 

Unlike Orlando's Wild Arctic, their exhibits were outside.

 

Beluga Whale

 

Journey to Atlantis re opened while we were walking past it, so we hopped in line.

 

There weren't that many people ahead of us in line. From this spot, the queue looks really well themed.

 

But when you get closer to the station, you can tell that the queue is quite ghetto for SeaWorld standards.

 

The wait should have been no more than 10 minutes, but it took us 45 minutes to actually get on the ride. The dispatch times were absolutely terrible. They kept sending empty boats without spieling and the ride kept stopping.

 

The ride time for Journey to Atlantis is 5 minutes. It took us over 10 to get through it. The ride kept stopping, and when we got off the ride they were spieling technical difficulties. We never saw the ride run again. So we did have good timing.

 

Riptide Rescue is a fun little flat ride.

 

After Riptide Rescue we went over to the parks Sky Ride and found this rental wheel chair.

 

The Sky Ride has little Shamus on it.

 

The Sky Ride goes over Mission Bay from one side of the land to the other.

 

Me on the Sky Ride.

 

Jackie and Patrick on the Sky Ride.

 

At the exit of the Sky Ride we found this old drink cart.

 

Before leaving SeaWorld we watched Cirque de la Mer.

 

On the way out we walked through the gift shop and found this! If you don't get the reference, watch

! (Skip to 1:25)

 

After we left SeaWorld, we drove a mile down the road to Belmont Park at Mission Beach to ride the Giant Dipper.

 

This was what I was waiting for the entire day.

 

Jackie was pretty excited too.

 

It's not too expensive.

 

Unfortunately the Giant Dipper is blessed with California Morgan trains. They're not comfortable and they provide a usually rough ride.

 

Luckily the Giant Dipper has a really good tracking job so it wasn't really that rough.

 

The Giant Dipper is one of the last Prior and Church wooden coasters in existence. The coaster opened in 1925 and has had an interesting life, but we'll get back into that later.

 

After a couple of rides on the Giant Dipper, we took a break and went over to the beach.

 

This was my first time in the Pacific ocean.

 

We played around on the shore line and hung out playing music till it was night time.

 

Yea...we are nerds in many ways.

 

One of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen.

 

Hey look! I found kelp!

 

Now that it's night time, we went back over to the Giant Dipper to get one last ride.

 

After our last ride we went into the roller coaster museum.

 

This model is what the coaster looked like in 1976 before it closed.

 

Patrick enjoying the model.

 

Giant Dipper closed in 1976 forever. In the mid 1980's the "Save the Coast Committee" formed and began a restoration project on the Giant Dipper. The Giant Dipper reopened in 1990.

 

We say farewell to San Diego and the Giant Dipper and head back to Anaheim.

 

-Dainan "Next stop, Knott's Berry Farm" Rafferty

Parachutes

^ No, it didn't have a seat belt.

 

I'm going to go with Space Shuttle. Seat belt, Shoulder Harness, and Lap Bar.

Day 2, 6/26/12

Disneyland

 

We arrived in the Mickey and Friend's Parking Structure around 7am. We knew that Disneyland was a parking garage, but it was still weird to see it in person.

 

I think we'll remember where we parked.

 

Doing a happy dance with Mickey.

 

The parking structure was ridiculously huge!

 

We hopped off the tram and went straight into the esplanade.

 

A line was forming outside Disney's California Adventure because everyone wanted to go see Cars Land.

 

While not so many people were lined up at Disneyland.

 

We spent the entire day at Disneyland. We stayed from 8am to 12am in the park.

 

This was my 4th Magic Kingdom I have been to. Other than Magic Kingdom in Florida, I have already been to Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris, but I was really excited to finally be in the place it all started!

 

Walking into Main Street USA feels familiar enough.

 

City Hall is a bit different than Florida's.

 

Seriously tho, turning onto Main Street and not seeing the giant Cinderella Castle that we have in Florida was a bit unnerving. Yes, we knew we were at Disneyland, but seeing Sleeping Beauty's Castle in person was very special.

 

Patrick couldn't believe how small it was.

 

First stop is Tomorrowland. Star Tours is just like Florida's but with less capacity. Moving on.

 

Ah yes! There it is. The attraction I have been looking forward to the most, Captain EO.

 

Just kidding, it's totally Space Mountain.

 

When I was in Tokyo Disneyland, Space Mountain was down for refurb. So this was the first time I got to ride this type of Space Mountain.

 

Making our way into the building.

 

I personally felt the interior queue wasn't that impressive.

 

If I didn't know better, I'd say we were in Florida.

 

But then you enter their station. Oh my god, does it look impressive!

 

Riders loading into their rockets for an intergalactic race through the cosmos!

 

Personally, I like the Space Mountain coaster in Florida better than California. But the over all experience of California's Space Mountain is way better than Florida's.

 

This was disappointing to see. In Walt Disney World we call this Astro Orbiter and the Peoplemover. In Disneyland they call this....theming. The Peoplemover was removed years ago and replaced with Rocket Rods which ran a short unsuccessful life, and the Astro Orbiter is the Observatron. The Observatron spins to music. ...that's really it.

 

Time head back to Main Street for a Disneyland classic.

 

I enjoyed the show.

 

Main Street Cinema in Disneyland isn't a gift shop like it is in Walt Disney World now.

 

It's really nice to see Disneyland's Main Street untouched... unlike Walt Disney World's.

 

hmmm, Splash is down. Feels just like we're back home.

 

Yes, it's really small. But it's beautiful.

 

Time for our next ride, the newly re opened Matterhorn Bobsleds.

 

Matterhorn recently re opened with new bobsleds. The original bobsleds had two seats that could seat two riders. These new bobsleds have three seats that can sit one rider each. The seats are not at all comfortable, and made it a really rough experience.

 

The Matterhorn had a long line, but thankfully they have a single rider line. Patrick and I on our first ride on the Matterhorn.

 

Patrick after his first ride on the Matterhorn.

 

During the recent refurbishment, the re painted and put new snow on the entire mountain. It looks pretty fantastic!

 

Alright, now it's time to ride the other side of the Matterhorn. This time we all rode together.

 

Time for Mr Toad.

 

 

The detail in their Fantasyland is just so much better than Florida's.

 

If you're wondering why no one is in the queue or on the vehicles. It's because the ride went down and was evaced. But we did do it again later and got to ride the entire thing

 

Storybook Land Canal

 

Jackie and Patrick, look out!!!

 

It was a really cute ride.

 

Casey Jr coming down the tracks!

 

So here's a bit of a back story, out of everyone in our group, I'm the only one who despises this ride. I love Mary Blare and her art, and the Sherman Brothers. So you'd think I'd love it, but I actually despise it. But because it's a classic, I had to do it.

 

The building it beautiful.

 

I was pleasantly surprised. The Disneyland version of this ride, the original, was amazing. We were all in love with it.

 

Next up, Big Thunder Mountain.

 

The track layout is very similar to Florida's, except it's a mirror image, and there are some differences in layout between the first and second lift.

 

The queue is very different than all the other Big Thunder Mountains.

 

The other difference with this Big Thunder Mountain, is that the station is outside.

 

A personal fact that I'm sure no one cares about. After riding Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain, I have officially ridden every single Big Thunder Mountain in the world. In fact after this trip, I've ridden every Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, Tower of Terror, Pinocchio's Daring Journey, Snow White's Adventure and Peter Pan's Flight. Yea...I'm a nerd.

 

Jackie and I ready for our ride on Big Thunder Mountain/

 

We had lunch at the Golden Horseshoe. Which unlike Walt Disney World's, is open every day. And it has a show every day.

 

This is the last photo I took for the day. I ran out of battery, and Jackie was low, so the photos from this point will be scarce for this day. We did plan better the rest of the trip tho, so don't worry .

 

Jackie, Patrick and I with our tickets for our round trip and tour on the Lilly Belle. The Lilly Belle was Walt Disney's presidential car on the Disneyland Railroad. Unfortunately I don't have any photos from inside the Lilly Belle. But you can see some photos and information about it here.

 

Inside the Haunted Mansion's stretch room. It was weird because this was an actual elevator.

 

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion is just like Walt Disney World's except for the first part of the attraction. You walk through the hallway of changing portraits and the library, which I thought was really cool.

 

hmmm, where does this lead?

 

She'll never tell.

 

Great, let's go in!

 

COME ON! LET US IN!

 

Just like home, we walked into Splash Mountain's queue and after 2 minutes, the ride went down.

 

Oh hey there! You were trying to get into Splash Mountain? Joke's on you!

 

We made our way to the other side of the park to do the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. I had mix feelings about it.

 

Here's a young CycloneMan and twin brother outside 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea at Walt Disney World. I remember being in awe with this attraction as a kid, and through my teen and adult life. So when I planned my trip to Disneyland, I was really looking forward to doing the Submarine Voyage. Unfortunately, I was expecting more than I got. I knew the ride was Nemo, but I thought a lot of the original stuff would have been in the attraction. Instead of a giant squid, sea serpent and mermaids. I got The Living Seas with Nemo and Friends, but this time it wasn't in EPCOT.

 

Skip a head a few hours, and here we are in front of It's a Small World watching the Magic, Memories and You!

 

It was interesting to see it on something other than Cinderella's Castle.

 

But it was still fun. What we did do, that I don't have pictures of is Fantasmic. Fantasmic in Disneyland is on the River's of America and is so much better than Walt Disney World's. I had no desire to see Fantasmic in Disneyland, because I don't care for the one at WDW, but my friend from Disneyland who joined up with us, said we needed to see it. And he was not wrong.

 

We did end up riding Splash Mountain later in the night. From front to back, my friend Cody who lives in walking distance from Disneyland, his friend Mike, Patrick, Jackie and I. It was a very weird experience for Jackie, Patrick and I because it was so different, yet so similar to Florida's. The problem with Disneyland's Splash Mountain, is that it's a real log flume. So you go by all the show scenes so quickly, that the story doesn't really make sense.

 

We ended our night on Space Mountain

 

The mountain at night is stunning.

 

Our on ride photo from our last ride on Space Mountain.

 

We had an awesome time our first day at Disneyland. We did almost every single ride in the park in the 17 hours we were there.

 

Stay tuned for SeaWorld San Diego and Belmont Park next!

 

-Dainan "Wishes I was still at Disneyland" Rafferty

We never did end up eating at Mrs Knott's. I really wanted to, but it was a bit pricey.

 

Day 2 PTR coming soon

My best friends Jackie, Patrick and I decided we needed to get out of Florida for a while and head out west, to what has become one of the best coaster trips any of us have had in a really long time. This trip was only planned a few months ago, and I can't believe we got all done.

 

9 days, 8 parks, 35 roller coaster, 3 best friends. ...and 5 trips to In-N-Out Burger!

 

Day 1, 6/25/12

Arriving in California and Knott's Berry Farm

 

Here's the gang of misfits on our way to Houston, Texas for our connecting flight to Orange County, California. Me, Jackie and Patrick.

 

And what if I do?

 

Its a statue of George Bush. Must be in Texas . Alright, enough of that. Let's get on the plane and head to California.

 

We arrived in California about noon, and were welcomed by this lovely poster at the airport.

 

Oh yes, don't forget this one too.

 

This was our rental car during our adventure. It wasn't supposed to be this nice, but they were out of smaller cars, so they upgraded us for free.

 

After driving around lost for what seemed like an eternity, we stopped at In-N-Out Burger for lunch. Our first meal in California.

 

Everyone said we needed to try it, and they weren't wrong. It's cheap and good. And most important, cheap

 

Our hotel was only a couple of blocks away from Knott's Berry Farm, so it was the perfect way to start our vacation.

 

What I liked about Knott's, was it's Market Place. It's a small area with shops and restaurants, but it's not all corporate places with flashy signs and obnoxious lights everywhere. It was nice and small. Perfect for this park.

 

 

After half a day of traveling, we finally made it! =)

 

Our first coaster of the trip, Montezooma's Revenge.

 

Montezooma's Revenge is a Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loop.

 

After you go through the vertical loop forward and then backwards, you go through the station and back up the back spike. This was one of the most insane features of any coaster I've been on. Other Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loops are usually trimmed so you don't go all the way up the back spike. Montezooma on the other hand, flys up the spike like there's no tomorrow with a crazy amount of airtime. This right here, put Montezooma's Revenge in my Top 10.

 

Jackie and Patrick ready for Montezooma's Revenge

 

Next we went over to Jaguar. But...I don't have any pictures of the awesome temple or the coaster. So here's Jackie and Patrick in the train.

 

Alright, let's discuss Windseaker for a second. This was the only ride on the trip I was terrified of riding. But I did it, and let me just say this. It's a big nothing. Yes, I was still scared out of my mind, but once you get over the whole being 300ft in the air part, it's actually quite boring.

 

Mexican Hat Dance...the best themed Tea Cups ride EVER!

 

Knott's has a stage couch ride.

 

We didn't do it today.

 

S&S Turbo Drop.

 

Oh wow, guess which ride was down! It did end up re opening later, and we were the first train out. I'll discuss Xcelerator more later.

 

Boomerang ended up being the longest wait of the day. Only 15 minutes, but it was still too long for this type of ride. Got the credit, that was enough.

 

Riptide was a lot of fun. Not the most comfortable ride, but plenty of fun.

 

Calico Mine is a really neat, old school dark ride. You hop aboard a mine train that takes you through caverns, tunnels, bats and waterfalls. Hmmm....why does that sound familiar?

 

Knott's Berry Farm was interesting. Parts of it felt like your typical Cedar Fair park, while other sections, such as Ghost Town, were really well themed. The park is also beautiful at night.

 

There Ghost Town was a lot of fun to explore.

 

Does anyone know the significance of this?

 

 

We went to the bakery in Ghost Town to get some dinner. The food was fantastic.

 

Some old critters from Knott's Beary Tales can still be found in one of the gift shops in Ghost Town.

 

Unfortunately, during our two visits to Knott's Ghost Rider was down for rehab. It did re open early during our trip, but we didn't have the time, or money to go back to Knott's for a third time.

 

The last thing we did was Snoop's Starlight Spectacular.

 

Right after I took this picture of Jackie all of the lights turned off and the music stopped. Knott's doesn't joke about their closing times.

 

It was a great first evening to our trip. During this day we got an all the coasters except for Silver Bullet, Sierra Sidewinder and Timberline Twister. We really loved Knott's and couldn't wait to go back. Though it would be a few days before we returned.

 

-Dainan "Next stop, Disneyland" Rafferty

California is just a few hours away!

Yay trip #2! Why did Verbolten disappoint?

Art of Animation opened two weeks ago to the public, and I've already been twice. The resort is split into four different areas, Finding Nemo, Cars, Lion King, and The Little Mermaid. When I went last week, only the Nemo part was open. This week, Cars opened (ironically times with California's Cars Land). Next to open is Lion King and the last is the Little Mermaid. Enough of words, onto the pictures!

 

The entrance off of Victory Way.

 

 

 

 

Lobby

 

It looks sort of like Cars Land in California Adventures. But...I'll find out in 5 days when I go there

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was a fan of the room number plaques and light fixtures.

 

Between the Nemo and Cars area. You can see that the back of the buildings have the sketches on it, while the front has the animation.

 

Nemo pool

 

 

 

 

Kids play area

 

 

We will end with the Lion King section still under construction. It should be open soon

 

-Dainan "I'll try to get some better shots soon" Rafferty

5 more days till California!

I'm happy you had fun. And that I've become an adjective

Thank you Harry

Bugaboo

It's strange. Wildcat has already started it's pre-season testing. Though, with it's recent history, it probably didn't pass the required inspections. As much as I loved this ride, and any Schwarzkopf for that matter, I'm not entirely surprised that the park went with this decision.

 

-Dainan "Only 1 left with Cedar Fair" Rafferty

You do that, and I'll stick with my frogs, lizards, snakes, gators and armadillos. However, you can have all the palmetto bugs you'd like!

Hey Harry, thought I'd give you a reason to appreciate not living in Florida.

 

A couple of months ago when I came home, this was on the wall outside my front door.

 

Then a month ago, I opened my front door and this little fellow was on the wall across from me.

 

The next day I saw him on my stairs.

 

Then a couple of weeks ago this guy was ON my bedroom window.

 

And then today, while walking around Port Orleans, we saw this big guy!

 

Sleep tight

Did you go on their rapids ride? It was closed when I went to Wild Adventures in 2007 and I always wondered if that ride's whirlpool feature is any good.

 

This was my third visit to the park, and each time their Rapids were closed.

 

I don't know why you guys even went...it looks like a park full of dreadful rides. Tampa is a LOT closer and better and has an even BIGGER Confederate Flag nearby...

 

lol, this is true. Patrick wanted to go, and it was different. Patrick's strange, he wanted to go, but wasn't happy about it. Wait till California, you'll see what I mean

 

 

Most perplexing trip report ever...

 

 

 

I'm with GAcoaster - Tampa! I believe two of you have passes, and I bet the third could have been comped in through your connections.

 

We are trying to convince him to get a pass and too go. But he keeps saying it's too expensive. But if my connection is willing to help, then I'll run it by him

The cast of today's adventure. Myself, Patrick and Jackie. This was Patrick's birthday trip and as you see, he is not too thrilled with going to Wild Adventures, but he did want to get his coaster count up before we go to California in June. This was Jackie and I's third time (and year) going to the park.

 

On the drive from Orlando, FL to Valdosta, GA we got to drive through a wildfire. Yay

 

Wow! Those welcome signs are getting stranger and stranger.

Disclaimer: I do not work at Universal, I don't know how we ended up with this name tag in the car

 

And because we're cheap, we stopped to get coupons.

 

We pulled into the parking lot afraid we wouldn't be able to find a spot.

 

Welcome to Wild Adventures. ...yay

 

This was our first impression of the day. One ticket booth opened only an hour after park opening.

 

Patrick can't wait to go inside.

 

Once inside the park, we were able to tell this place was deserted.

 

First stop of the day was Ant Farm Express. The park's Vekoma Roller Skater

 

Patrick and Jackie ready to ride this unique coaster. It was rought

 

Every Vekoma ride needs one of these at the entrance

 

The parks Wild Mouse coaster was next.

 

Go Bananas! is your typical Maurer Sohne Wild Mouse coasters

 

It was rough and trimmed.

 

They're Bumper Cars just seem so out of place.

 

Next we did their Vekoma Jr SLC, Swamp Thing. It was boring and rough...NEXT!

 

Here you see the parks Aviator, which was running like crap by the way, and Boomerang. What you also see is a nice plot of land where a ride used to be, there's plenty of them around the park.

 

So yea...here's the Boomerang. A very unique and exotic ride.

 

It was rough, moving on.

 

Walking on the boardwalk to our next location.

 

We headed over to Cheetah

 

Due to Cheetah's location, it's a hard ride to get photos of, so we'll come back to it later.

 

After the lovely and talented Cheetah, we rode this monstrosity of a ride.

 

Viking Voyage is a Miler coaster. This one was relocated from Celebration City

 

The ride is very uncomfortable and extremely rough. It is easily one of the worst engineered coasters out there and should be used only for scrap metal.

 

I seriously wonder who thought it was a good idea to make this god awful ride.

 

Good luck Vikings!

 

We saved the best for last. Twisted Typhoon.

 

Twisted Typhoon is the park's Vekoma SLC.

 

Up until last year, this coaster was named Hang Man and had a different paint scheme.

 

The new paint job really makes the ride look nicer.

 

Hang Man was repainted and renamed to Twisted Typhoon to math the neighboring water park, Splash Island.

 

I seriously love SLC lift hills...

 

...and that's about it.

 

With the new look, the coaster did not get new trains.

 

Thus making this coaster your standard, painful Vekoma SLC.

 

Across from Twisted Typhoon, you can get Gator meat. Scrumptious!

 

We had lunch here.

 

The food looked good but it really wasn't. And a couple of hours later, we were all feeling sick.

 

After lunch, we decided to ride Rattler.

 

Great idea after eating

 

Firecracker is probably the smallest S&S Space Shot I've ever seen. And it wasn't really powerful either. Nice try Wild Adventures.

 

We went to go get our Cheetah fix. As you can see, it was crazy busy.

 

The train going up the lift. Now give me an "oooooooh," now give me an "aaaaaaaaah"

 

Cheetah is an out and back with a figure eight at the end. Doesn't sound like much, but this coaster maintains it's speed, it's smooth, and it's packed with airtime!

 

As much as I try, I'm just not going to get it.

 

Perfect shot of the tree blocking the train.

 

Another train load of satisfied customers.

 

I know everyone wanted to see what the lift hill looked like again. So here you go!

 

We wanted to do their Flyers....but when we walked up to it there was no operator in sight. The queue was open and the operator panel was in plain site. So we just walked away. No Falcon Flyers for us today.

 

I wanna see your peacock cock cock! Your peacock cock!

 

At this point we were starting to get really bad head aches and nausea.

 

For some stupid reason we decided to do the Boomerang on the way out.

 

Patrick was smart and sat out.

 

Jackie and I got our own train on the Boomerang. It was really painful, a good sign to tell us it was time to go.

 

See ya Wild Adventures! Thanks for having Cheetah, otherwise you would have been a waste of a drive up here.

 

On the drive out of the park you go around the entire property, which means you can get some shots of Cheetah. Here's the train going down the first drop.

 

And the train in the turn around.

 

And why not another photo of the "new" Twisted Typhoon.

 

After a short drive back into Florida, we were greeted into my home state by this flag. Thaaaaaaaaaanks, I feel so welcomed.

 

Oh, and I forgot to mention the worker who asked Patrick, "Are ya'll Yankees?" Yea...

 

-Dainan "I can wait another year before going back again" Rafferty

...and the day before that. And the week before that. And the week before that

Oh wow! That totally is ours

That ship is absolutely gorgeous! I hope you post more Harry

 

-Dainan "Needs to a Disney cruise soon" Rafferty

We went to Busch Gardens Tampa today for the afternoon...again (was there a week ago). And I seriously can not get enough of Cheetah Hunt. It may not be the tallest or fastest coaster out there, but it is seriously one of the best Intamin coasters out there. If you ever are in Orlando for vacation, it's worth the hour drive just for this...and Montu

 

We arrived at Universal Orlando at around 6:30. We were there to see the Cydni Lauper concert and the Mardis Gras parade, but we got there early to take a stroll around the park and get dinner.

 

Hollywood Drive is opened and popular.

 

I seriously need to make time to do this.

 

We only did Universal Studios Florida today.

 

There's only one more week left of Mardis Gras

 

Despicable Me is coming along and is set to open on time.

 

Hey there Mardis Gras stilt walkers!

 

They're costumes were fantastic.

 

The others I was with got better pictures than I did. But here you go.

 

Yup....pretty fantastic.

 

Cyndi, it's not your time yet! We will see you later tonight.

 

The park area had some little food vendors set up and gypsy tents.

 

Universal's Cinematic Spectacular is almost ready for it's opening night.

 

Note to self, don't stand here.

 

Looking down the street of San Francisco you can see the emptiness that was once Amity Island at the end.

 

Bruce finally got a new home next to Richter's

 

As much as it saddens me to see the final bit of the Jaws Ride gone, it is nice to see Bruce in his new location. That as you can tell by this photo, fits well.

 

This used to be Amity Island.

 

When walking into the site formerly known as Amity, this is all you see.

 

I wonder how long this sign will still be here.

 

A couple of thematic elements are still left in Amity on the other side of the wall.

 

The restroom building is the only building left from Amity Island.

 

This used to be...

 

...this. Alright, enough of the depressing stuff. Let's move on shall we?

 

After dinner, I decided to take a ride on Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit.

 

It was running really smooth tonight. Fun ride, but still not the best.

 

We got our spot for the concert first, so we watched the Mardis Gras parade from a far tonight.

 

I don't have that many photos because, as you see, people were throwing their hands in the air trying to catch beads and I was too busy trying to dodge them... However, I did end up catching 12 bead necklaces

 

The air boat float from a far.

 

The Bourbon Street float. After this photo, I gave up trying to get photos of the parade.

 

This was our spot for the concert. It may be a little far back, but I was content with it. I also really like how Rockit is right behind the stage.

 

Shhhh, Cyndi Lauper's on. Okay kids, that's all for now. See you next time.

 

-Dainan "Cyndi put on an excellent concert btw" Rafferty

I like the fact that we are getting this ride in this area of the park. However, the colors of the ride doesn't make sense in that area of the park. It looks ridiculously out of place. Also, the globe on the top is ridiculously obnoxious. Even more so than dare I say, the Jumbo Tron