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Yeah, sooo..... I think you realize it's been a while since an update or even the conclusion to my SFDK section. I've got some news (bad or good depending if you hate this TR) Which is I have started my senior year and it blows!!!! Well... actually allot less that last year, but besides that, this means I won't be getting to updates as often as I would like. However I guess that means I get my thread to last forever where most people are more than halfway through! So I guess you can view it as me making the fun last longer or the pain last an eternity!!! Muhahahahah!!!! Here's the rest of my crappy SFDK update: Okay, There's the money shot! My camera literaly died three or four seconds after I took this, Thus concluding the SFDK pictures. Next...Gilroy Gardens!!! The theme park built by a mainiac! Next update coming....... NEVARH!!!!! (or whenever the **** I feel like)

I absolutely love the Windstorm there. I rode it to get the credit, and it completely blew my expectations. It is intense for a carnival ride and has awesome pacing. Although my love for that ride caused everyone to make fun of me for loving the SCBB model on the West Coast Trip.

^ it's on his avatar.

I went to the dentist office today and afterward while waiting to be picked up I saw a bill stuck between the cussions and and took it out. It was a whole 100 dollar bill!!! They said if nobody calls in 2 days I get to keep it!

Awesome Pictures. I found it kind of funny how you could see me and Matt all the way up to X2, since we were the only people who were sprinting to it.

No, But my cat does But do I actuly own a cat????

Lol, Nice update. There is no way the Apple worm thing is a credit. I was considering it at the time but when I look back I realized it was ridiculous. Ps. You didn’t discus the wildlife at Gilroy. Don’t you remember our Bird watching encounter?

^Hahaha!!!! "Education through edutianment!"

^LMAO

Ive been getting the same thing. I think this is affecting everyone on TPR...

^^ lol, I was being sarcastic.

Part III: Now back to DK! (Will post the rest tommorow, It's 1:30AM and I'm tired) There were allot of picture of this guy. Don't know why though.... Although this one only carried Jelly Bellies and not the Hedrick twins... (or any other TPR members for that matter) They had one of these similar to the ones at Legoland. This is what the inside of the factory looked like. Note this picture lacks Oompa-Loompas. That is because there were none and everyone was very disapointed. Jelly Belly Guy on a Ballon! Unfortunately, this is the last picture I could take because cameras were not allowed inside the factory. Although I will post pictures similar to what it looked like. I didn't get allot of pictures because my camera had 5 min of battery, wich I was saving for DK. I had to use my crappy phone camera. Now it's time for the Jelly Belly factory tour!

Part Two: I was kind of wondering what would happen if the Penguin swam into the lake. More to come! See? We must have taken over 1000 photos of him. When the penguin came out, everyone was amazed. OMG!!!!!!!!!! IT's AN EFFIN PENGUIN!!!! ZzzzzzzZZZzzzzzZzZzZzzzzzzzz...... *YAWN* Awwwwwwww... Shuch a Whittle Shunchkums... Don't mess with the Otter!!! Yay!! More Otter!!! This otter's my homedog. Uncle Fungus? Ehhhhh.... Whatever.... stupid aquatic mammals. " "They....uhhh...." "Wait... What about.......me?" And Merlin Doesn't care for sore losers! Shouka Doesn't take defeat so well... You just got PWND by a dolphin!!! And then Merlin came and totaly owned both of them. Then Shouka showed him up again. Odin is offended. Odin makes a comeback. Shouka Chalenged Odin to a Bohemian Rap battle. These were the raffel prizes. Those paintings were actuly done by the animals. Peek-a-Boo! All the importaint people were focused on Odin, not Bingo squares. I took this opportunity to get the Tyler and mayo bingo square. As you can see, Tyler moved and I FAILED!!!! Not Peirs and mayo!!!! Tyler and mayo!!! Or Peirs and alcohol!!! It dosn't work the other way!!!! And these guys showed up too. And then Shouka came out and put on the show for us! While the park management was talking everyone's Q-bot beeped in sync about every 30 secounds telling them to go to the Shouka show. Everyone eating. It's funny because I noticed everybody took a picture of this sign in all their Bay Area Bash, TRs and the only difference is the reflection of the different people in the glass. I see you, Merlin! .......It Rises! and has sexy curves... As you can see, it's rather unique... This ride was awesome.

DAY TWO: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Jelly Belly, penguin and inventing the spining Aquatrax. Yeah, sooo..... Today was our first "official" park day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. In terms of a Six Flags park this place was outstanding and really unique, plus the staff was friendly and the rides were well maintained. This was definitely one of the top of the line parks in the chain, in terms of quality. Anyway, the tour met up with a bunch of other random TPR members as part of Bay Area Bash, and we made our way over to some of the animal sections where there were a bunch of animals for us to see (surprised?). Then we got to see a behind the scenes tiger show thing, where everyone got a chance to ask the park managers and trainers random things about the tigers. Then we got half an hour of ERT on medusa, and the opp was totally awesome. He referred to the coaster as "SFDK's Parking Lot Coaster" and if that isn't awesome enough he made an ACE/buffet joke!!! The ride itself was great. The straight drop was awesome and it had a real unique layout. I like it better than GADV Bizzaro. After that we got a bunch of credits in, although we got denied on our first attempt to ride Canyon Blaster (Will get to second attempt later). Then we had lunch of burgers and sausages in buns. Yes, they were not Frankfurters. Mike Austin explained on the bus they were too thick and were thus, sausages. Then a bunch of non Loony Toons/ DC mascots came out, which were specific for this park. Shouka, the whale, Odin, the tiger and Merlin, the dolphin. They entertained us for about an hour because we all have very, very short attention spans! Oh yeah, Maybe it wasn't an hour because the park brought out a penguin and everybody lost their minds and forgot about the mascots. Then the WCT group left for a non credit related bonus activity! The Jelly Belly factory! I didn't get allot of photos because my camera was almost out of battery life, so I used my phone. The lines for the factory tour made me wish it was on Q-bot. Anyway we left the place with about 3 boxes worth of Belly Flops (irregular Jelly beans that don't meet the quality standards and are only sold at the factory gift shop). It only took about ten minuets for somebody to spill the entire bag on the floor of the bus! Yeah, so when we got back to SFDK, Matt and I got the rest of our credits, Including the Boomerang, Tony Hawk's Big Spin (We debated how to pronounce "Gerstlauerr" and the young couple riding with us looked at us like we were retarded) and finally the kiddy credit! It was the third (first at the time) most Credit Whorish thing I've ever done, with the other two instances also on this trip! There was this rather large woman behind us who we somehow engaged in a conversation with and volunteered to ride with her son. We even agreed to give him a dollar each, so he could buy half a soda. Everything went fine excluding the part when the opp checked Matt's restraint and the kid shouted "Are you really going to give me a whole dollar forreal???" So then the park winded down as we had group trivia with Robb and then headed over to the ERT coasters! I rode V2 in the same seat five times since it was the best hang time seat on the oddly shaped impulse. It was awesome looking up (down when your already upsidedown) and waveing at the GP leaving the park. Then we had Tony Hawks Water Challenge! I don't know what I can say that hasn't already been said, but an important point was this was my first ERT session with TPR and it did not disappoint! If you don't know the challenge was to hold a cup of water and keep as much in the glass as possible. It basically turned into a giant water fight on a coaster, although me and pomplemus learned that we were somehow in second place and got all exited. Clearly something happened in-between the scoring of our next attempt because we had suddenly gone to eight place. We realized everyone was cheating at that point, so we decided to play dirty ourselves. We both got two cups, put one between our feet and tried to hold the other by drinking it and holding it like a hamster or something. That was a bad idea, since I started laughing and it came out my nose. That was probably too much information. Anyway I'm just going to stop writing now because I clearly haven't learned to go easy on the written part because most people skip over it, and I'm completely wasting my time. Infact I could just be writing this on my computer and sending it into a void where it will never be read, meaning i have wasted a tremendous amount of time. When will I Learn!!!!?!?!? It appears as if it is teleporting the riders here. As if it's going to a new dimension...Of PAIN!!! more to come... Oh no. It's pain time!!! It was very curvy! Next was Medusa ERT!!! Ahhhh!!! look out!!! The tiger is swimming towards you!!! GRRRRRRRRRR....... I IS NO LOL CAT!!!! We got a Q&A session with the tiger trainers and Park Management. Tiga. Tiga. Tiga. Tiga. (anyone rember the movie Kung-pow?) I think he prefered the taste of Cannon Vixia HF10's. He seemed more iterested in playing with the Jell-o than actuly eating it. OH HAI. PLZ NO PICS OR LOL-OTTER MAY COM REAL. He liked green jello. This guy was the best though. Although it was nice to see some rather endangerd animals. I don't understand why they did not bring this guy out for EAT. Ooooooh Artsy bird photo. Now it's time for EAT, as robb calls it! Exclusive Animal Time! Although I could not find the connection between this park and dolphins. This place had a much more inviting feel than some other Six Flags Parks, IMO. I just posted annother picture of this to make this TR as painful as possible. If you said something nerdy about new trains or something, you were WRONG!!!!! This happens to be the worlds first wooden Aquatrax! Roar. This woodie is a first for wooden roller coasters. Do you know what makes it special? Mega Whale Vs. Giant Elepant Booo for Veckoma Sea Serpant! yay for B&M sea serpant!!! These animals have injested Play-doh. Walking.....yeah YAY!!! First (official) Park!!! As you can see the coasters are very fast. Here we are pulling into SFDK and drooling over the skyline. AHHHRRRRRR!!!!!! NOM NOM NOM!!!!! Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge from far away. We actually tired to take the route over the bridge but we encountered some difficulty. I will post a picture I took of why the bridge was unavailable. San Fransisco is actuly built completly on water! San Franscisco from the bus. It appears as if the Flash ran by in this photo to show off the new colors of his costume. Oh wait, before I start, let me first post the last in this TR and most awesome Skymall product EVER!!!! I only found it today and was completly mindblown.

Nice Report! It's good to see new WCT trip reports coming in every day!

Double A batteries? There's no mystery about them, which makes their power exceed!

^uuhhh..... me?

Haha, I laughed out loud at your conversation with Mike.

I would be mindblown if we ever see a new Six Flags park in this whole universe.

I was seriously about to post that one!

Lol, Awesome report! I loved the Tony Hawk Picture, that was hillarious! Although this was my favorite:

Haha, Thanks for the comments everyone! I didn't realize everyone would love skymall as much as I do! Just for that, I'll treat everyone to more awesome skymall products! barking just isn't enough these days. Havent you ever wanted to bring home the magic of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room? Neither have I!!! Here's something for Tony. Bring your weights on vaction and aviod useing those aweful weightrooms at world class resorts! All you have to do is fill them up with water! Your very own "Hang Yourself from a doorway" kit! Train yourself to suck and blow correctly! Just cause we can. This device will allow you to read people's minds....ooooohh Why brush one side when you can brush TWO!!!! Wear this and you will be heavily respected by other divers.

Part Three: Long Drive+ Snack Night This is preety much what the entire drive looked like. This is the little guy I got in the Kinder Egg!!! I would post pictures from the TPR takeover of Bennigans, but I don't have any, which would make it hard to post. Try looking at someone else's PTR for the West Coast Trip as their PTRs are proably immensly better than this one. Much more to come!!! Although I would strongly reccomend not reading it. More snacks. I brought the tastycakes! They only sell them in Philly and the tri-sate area! Snacks!!! I'm not sure what this is but when I first saw it I thought it was a shark!!! A few other people said the same. Pool Area! This is where we had the snack exchange night. The pool was actuly really warm, which was good because it got chilly at night in the bay area. This hotel is AWESOME!!!! Matt wanted the B&M coaster although I was convinced, it was a Vekoma flying dutchman. Bas and I actuly tried to find out by asking the guy in the lobby. We didn't figure out anything, execept that every employee from the hotel has their picture somwhere in the mosaic, and the theme is Avatars, going with the name of the hotel. It's named that because it's accross the street from Yahoo! headquarters. I sleped under the Intamin coaster! I think it might have been Storm Runner but I wasn't sure... Check it out! Everyone was so exited to see the murals in our rooms! Our Hotel was connected to an IHOP. Words cannot describe the awesomeness of this. The only comparison is that it was as awesome as Shark Attack 3. Although Elissa, who is the most awesome of all three, organized three days of breakfast buffet here, which was as close to nervana as possible. We were also preety close to TOGO's american headquarters. Note that it is directly next to a sprits store. This is very importaint as this had a great influence on TOGO's designers in the creation of their american coasters. Our hotel was directly next to Yahoo headquarters allong with CGA. (look for the sky swing) Yay! Were finaly at our first hotel!!! Omm Nom Nom They basicly used the same clip of the shark poping up around 15 times only with different things going into it's mouth. Ahhhhhh!!!!!! It's the Megalodon!!! For the rest of the drive, Dave treated us to this cinematic masterpiece. They were selling these at the gas sation next door. Paul, who had been complaining about bloody American's proportion sizes, was very disturbed by this. Too Bad Elissa wasn't on this drive. I was hoping to get my "Elissa eats McDonalds food" bingo square. Mmmm, McDonalds We stopped for lunch halfway through the ride. Hello! Now I'm Gonna Give...All our freinds a SNACK!!!!

Part Two: Actual Park Pictures!!!! This place was really nice at night. Like I said, the quality really shows. Next up! The 6 hour Drive!!! Their ferris wheel's lights were awesome! Honestly it was just as good as the lights on the one at DCA! The peir is preety at night. This looks like something from Bon Bon land. look it's that thing from the movie Big! The main character is actuly my namesake! (Josh!) Also note that it says it costs 100$ Here's the Sig Alert Ev or whatever. Even after people explained to me what it meant, I still think it's a terrible name. There were lots of random street performers including these breakdancing people. Oooooooooh Preety. I love my camera. It makes me look like I actuly know something about photography. artsy shot with the coaster track. When I finaly got on the scrambler the sun was setting. That's because the ride lasted around 10-15 minuets. Hi Paul. Now it's time for scrambler photos! I missed the TPR takeover, so I just stayed on the side and videotaped everybody. Then Matt warned me about turning into Tony. Too Bad he ended up winning the Tony Award! Here you can see one of the other Joshs (Not me) and WANK, waving. Ok, tell me what you see in this picture. Then try to decide what those four Los Angeles Teens are looking at through those binoculars. Oh yeah, we're on the beach. They had some random spinning upcharge thing. It let you controll your spin for only five dollars. I said screw it, because there's a Rock-o-plane at Santa Cruz. See? I love the claws over the supports. Their pirate ship was actuly well themed for a boardwalk ride. Would you like annother West Coaster photo? Of course! "You spin me right round baby, right round." Going Up. I see Dave, Jen and two Mikes in the back. I don't get this sign. Is it "West Coaster" or "West Roller Coaster"? Look! It's the coaster's single air hill!!! This park was in a much nicer area then Venice. Zoom! (Actuly, it's not really going that fast) They had some kind of Trappeese upcharge thing. This place had a really great entrance sign. I felt lots of attention to details around this small park and it just goes to show what parks can do when they don't spend all their money on rides.