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We will get you out one from Missouri. I have some friends in South Africa and Thailand, I can ask them to send one also!

Oh Mike! That is so cool! I just called April up from downstairs to take a look at what you did! She got goosebumps! Parker is asleep now but we cant wait till he wakes up to show him! He will be so excited! Parker was talking about you today! He went to the haunt at worlds of fun over the weekend, and the first thing he remembers to tell me about it is that" Big mike sure was right, they have way more people walking around trying to scare you than last year!" You really made a good impression on him Mike! He wants to get T shirts made for our coaster trip this fall just like Big Mike! Thank you so much for thinking of him! It made our week! Jeffrey and April I will have Parker write to you later!

Mike, that was the first coaster Parker ever rode!!!!!! You also had a pic of that spin and puke ride called the yak attack, we let Parker ride that about 20 times to see if he would throw up!!!!!! April ended up being the one that threw up just watching him!

Everyone will be jealous you got to see my hot babe wife in a bikini! But i have a story YOU might be jealous of. Tonight my parents had their class reunion, and my mom called me from there and told me I had to get there right away, she said their was someone that she wanted me to meet. When I got there she introduced my to David Busch, who I remember as a kid was a friend of my parents and always at worlds of fun when we went. Well she told me tonight that we was the big boss at WOF right under Lamar Hunt! Now David owns several water parks all over the world! From China to Texas! Anyway he invited us to come visit him at some of his Texas parks and will show us around! I will let you know when we get the hook up!!!! Jeffrey

Mike,was anybody else in that park at all?????

Very good pics! Also, you write like you are way older than 17! Ready to see the next park!

On one of the slide it looks like the slides come out of Sukreep's mouth! The only reason I know its Sukreep is because my wife has a tattoo of him of her leg! He is one of the warrior monkeys from the Rayamana story, he is related to Hanuman, who is more popular.

Mike, I agree with your assessment of all the trip reports coming out! Cant get to them all! Glad you had fun at CC, ready to see SDC pics next! Parker and April ask about you often and hope you are doing good! April talks about you a lot to our clients at work! I interpreted for Obama today when he was in KC, watch for me on the news! Hope to see you again soon Mike! Jeffrey

The screamer looked awesome, till I saw that I was too tall to ride it!

Mike, Parker will be so excited that you put hid drawing up! It was cute to see him excited about riding the coaster at the state fair and asking if it counted as a credit! Now he wants us to get shirts made for our next vacation like you!

I forgot to tell you that Parker was talking all about you in Sunday school today at church. He acted like you were a big celebrity that everybody should know! He cant wait to wear his Prowler shirt to his first week of school! Thanks for making the day special for Parker, and us to Now Parker wants to go to St louis next weekend to get more credits! I took a picture with your camera of April by the pool. You can use it as one of your bikini babes

Mike, thank you so much for hanging our with us the last 2 days. Parker thought you were really cool, and he loves his new shirt!!!!!!!!! Hope to see you again soon!!! Have a safe flight home. Jefrey April and Parker

Thanks everybody! Yes the traffic was terrible.....it was worse than we normally would see there I think. All the overflow lots were full and they were making people park in a hotel lot down 76 and take a shuttle in!

Here is the next set of pics. and this is Colin as soon as we got into the car! Thanks everybody for looking! HEHEHEH baldknobbers!!!! As a side note to this ride, I also rode it for the first time when I was 5. On the way to SDC my parents told me this urban legend about Fire in the Hole. They said that the guy controlling the ride pushed the wrong button and sent the train into the storage area, which was only was high as the trains themselves. He yelled for everyone to duck, but the guy in the very front didnt hear him and his head ended up in the lap of the guy behind him. So the first 5 times I rode it, I was ducked all the way down!!!!! Nice parenting, I know. Fire in The Hole! Great ride! The queue for PK went all the way out of the building and all the way down the hill! Hour and a half wait. Its a great ride, but I am not that patient! I think I got this one right at the launch. Pre launch Everybody has this one....... Front view of PK Lost river of the ozarks. Not a bad ride at all, but the line was hella long! We skipped the waterboggen also. I did notice many women wearing white shirts coming off this ride, not a great idea. I mean, not a great idea to notice Ozark women in white shirts coming off this ride! I didnt take any pics of that, thank me later! I figured out Colin loves to shoot stuff so we spent a lot of time here. So we rode this instead. I took this pic not for the ride, but for the great job of parenting seen here. 1. they put a dog harness on their kid. Most of the day he was hooked to a leash also. 2. they took the leash off and let him try to climb the fence into the ride! OK....so we go to ride the tea cups and ride before we get on, we notice this one cup still has people in it. Well.....some brilliant PREGNANT woman rode it with her husband and spinned so hard she PASSED OUT! So they shut it down for a bit. we passed on this one.... This is classic Branson style! I know you all wish you had this same shirt! I rode this once last year. And was Willy Wonka says"one is enough for anybody!" All the rides in this section were run by Asian girls. The girl that was at this one kept saying"Thank you for your riding!" I love Asians! (and yes Colin in asian also!) Its very hard to fit into this thing when you are as tall as I am! So here we are on Colins very first credit!!!!! He was way excited!!!! or like this. This is how we looked most of the day! One of our favorites! Final score! He hit 10 which isnt too bad! A short side note about this guy here. I first rode this ride when I was 5. We got stuck right there next to him for 30 minutes! I got really freaked out because he keeps saying"Sweat a little blood and you might get outta this place!" not fun when you are 5 and a big wuss! So this is Colins very first ride of any kind....ever....he loved it! Flooded mine ride more backside of Powder Keg. OK let me explain these next 2 pics. To get to the robbery site, I have to ride a golf cart thru the back of the park. These next 2 shots are of the backside of Powder Keg, I took them while the golf cart was still going thats why they are not the best! After the cave, I went to interpret the train robbery. It is one of favorites and have done it for 8 years now. I have the whole thing just about memorized. This is a pic behind the shack of Alphie and Ralphie, they have both worked there for 25 years!

Hello everybody! My wife and I go every year to SDC to interpret for Deaf Awareness Day, here are the pics from today. Dont laugh at my green shirt, its the one they make us wear when we interpret. I didnt laugh when they gave me 4 free tix and a free weekend at the hotel! Jeffrey and April Since Wildfire was not running yet, I had to go and interpret the cave tour. Glad all the bat guano is gone!!!!!! Wildfire has a really nice backdrop! Lift hill.... Wildfire was closed because some deer had hopped the fence and were running around the track! You can see the guy in the red cart was chasing them off.....remember this IS Missouri, I was shocked some hillbilly didnt shoot them first! OK, so after I interpreted the opening of the park, I ran to Wildfire, and found this...... These 2 have worked there forever!!! Both are very, very nice. The tall guys name is Shorty, not sure about hers. Some big ACE'r guy probably won this. is "big" and "acer" kind of redundant? So that why all these kids are here!!!! They actually had some cool thing set up for the kids all over the park. Water clock thing. Finally here!!!!! Ejector seat. No thanks! This is what people came to look at all weekend. Normal Branson traffic This was NOT a good weekend to go to SDC. They had a HUGE car show all weekend with these classic cars cruising the strip all day and night. People set their chairs out to sit and watch them all weekend! More normal Branson stuff. Thats me and our friends son, Colin. He his 4 and has never been to ANY park or even been on a carnival ride! This was a big first for him. The guy in the purple car thought he was driving in NASCAR or something! We started off the weekend with a ride on the go karts. I think thats required whenever you go to Branson.

Mike,when you come to Worlds of Fun, ar you going to stay for a bit after coaster mayhem? we dont have tickets to the event because we are not part of any club, but would love to meet up with you as the park opens! You are going to be really close to us tonight when you are at the great mall, but we are heading down to branson today. Let me know if we can see you while you are here in Kansas City, our 8 year old son wants to ride Patriot with you! Jeffrey

We interpret at SDC every year, and our 2008 time is coming soon! We get to do al the backstage tours and get a little insight as to whats going on. If we see or hear anything cool we will let you know!

dave, I remember your last trip to BKK that you posted here. we are frequent visitors to the land of smiles and look forward to retiring there later on next time you are there, look for a Thai carnival!!!!!! Its like a ghetto fair, but Thai style! Awesome! Last one we went to had a game with this huge circle and numbers painted above holes around the circle. You "bought" a number for the game, then they brought out this HUGE rat type animal and shook it around in a bucket till it was dizzy, then let it go. If it ran into your numbered hole you win!!!! Weird Anyway we loved your pics and look forward to more!

Since you are 16 ad cant get a hotel, there are tons of camping areas around the cities that you could use, and that might be a lot of fun! July 4th time frame might be really busy! But again maybe not, we have been down there several times around the 4th and its hit and miss.

Rob, thanks for fixing the first post for me! It sucks that this topic is the longest thread I have ever started. I also remember the first time seeing KK, I was really little and I knew it was going to come up on the tour, so I asked my Dad which side KK was on.....well he totally lied to me and made me sit on the side right next to KK! I was really a wuss when I was a kid, and was really upset that he tricked me! My wife was a also really upset, I took her to California for the first vacation of her life when she was 30, never even been on a plane before! She was amazed at everything on the tour, and was so happy to see things in real life that she had only seen in the movies.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4973260 And an official release from NBCUniversal Today: ADMIT EDIT - POSTED EDITED BY ROBB ALVEY TO INCLUDE PRESS RELEASE AND PHOTOS Here are some photos of the fire: More wreckage. Wreckage of the park. Smoke over Los Angeles. Movie Sets on fire. King Kong building in upper left hand corner. All that's left is an empty shell of a building. King Kong building on fire. Map of where the fire was.

We love the TR so far!!!! We have also traveled a lot thru SE Asia, with Thailand being our favorite by far. Cant wait to see Dream World pics!

Dave, that was really cool!!!! We were supposed to go to Dreamworld last December but our flight was delayed and we missed that day. But we have been to Thailand several times and will continue to go back year after year! The comments you made about the state of the parks was right on. Some of the rides look homemade while others look like they cost several million Baht! It was also very Thai in the way most of the pics showed the glitz and glamor of a big mall, right next to a bunch of crap that isnt well traken care of. How did you like the Thai people? and the food? Almost forgot, when they charged you a different price at dreamworld, was that the first time that happened? Moat of the places we have been to always have 2 different prices, one for Thai and one for farang! Jeffrey

Thanks again everyone for your nice comments!!! Dave, where are you going in Thailand???

Thanks everyone for all the nice comments. Also a big thanks for putting us on the Home Page!!!!! I should of made a Photo TR when we went to South Africa last year and saw this small park down there. Plus I got bit by this 9 month old lion cub and still ahve the scar:) Thanks again everyone!!!! Jeffrey and April