paiging_jen

Oh, yeah.... shame on Merlin. Seriously...these pictures make the park look the BEST I've seen it in 20 years....and you're bitching about a pond? Be grateful they kept the gardens. Be grateful the park is open at all. It could be a Wal-Mart. Exactly. I'm just happy the whole place wasn't leveled for another failed strip mall which are overtaking the area. And it is actually built on a REAL lake and lakes sometimes have algae blooms and not so "pretty" water. While it may not be Disney perfect, it is perfectly normal.

I completely forgot about the boomerang ride op at Great Escape. At least it was comic relief for what was yet ANOTHER boomerang on the trip.

Today I learned that Jenn lives in the Mansion across the lake at Legoland. I wish! But it is only about 10 minutes away from my house. I know the park well. Hell, I was even a Southern Belle for a day when I was younger! Filmed a tourism commercial for Japan that day, that was interesting.

Wow....the park looks great! Thanks for the update. I'm actually really looking forward to the opening, especially since it's in my backyard!

Exactly!

This may be one of my favorite stops on the trip when I consider the night before at Uno and the hotel (with the drinking and video show) and the day in the park. There was so much I enjoyed about this day at Great Escape. Comet was a fun little wake up that morning, the park itself was a pleasant surprise, the pictures of Piers looking like he wants to vomit on Comet still make me laugh, they had a S&S tower themed to Sasquatch, which Steve and I are, and the horribly bad skycoaster which hurt like hell for me....the day was just perfect. Oh, and they had a cat with a fish on the carousel! Fun way to end the trip with some of my new favorite people.....Kim, Neil, Phillip and Ian!

The one and only! Neil does a great impersonation.

Best part of the ride by far was the ride op doing the restraint check.

In the future, just try to imagine what the honey badger would say.

I am genuinely scared for our future in this country.

Awww....Roxy was telling Steve and I about this on the way to SFGAdv. Wasn't it his birthday or something?

I don't want this thread to ever end! And yay for 3 pictures!

Steve Burant had his posts deleted on that page.

I was just about to tell you to do the same with your report. Looking forward to following along on your report Chris!

Great shots. Thanks for the update!

Another awesome update. But only b/c I saw myself in one of the pictures.

Thanks for sharing your magic leg room row with us! That was so nice of you guys. Loved meeting you and can't wait to see you again!

Night ride on Cheetah Hunt a couple of weeks ago. Was hoping to be on one in NJ tonight, but alas Irene kept me in Florida.

Wear cargo shorts or leave your stuff in the car. Simple solution.

With the hair piece that someone was 77", without they were the lucky 76". Obvious choice was leave the hair in the queue. You should have done the same. And I would say the inconsistencies in the height policy really were the mind boggling part of that whole Bizarro experience, which really was a nightmare.

YAY! I've been looking forward to this report. I can't wait to follow along! Amazing start. And this picture..... I love it!

There is so much I actually missed at this park, and I didn't even drink! Pretty bummed about that actually. Great update Benny!

Oh please great gazoo....tell us what the magic word is!

I would be ecstatic if I saw SheiKra operating that fast. It may have in the past, but I haven't seen anything close to that in my many visits over the last year. I can't say much about recent operations at BGW, but the limited times I've been the Griffon crew was on top of their game. I hate to hear that may not be the case recently.

I totally forgot Neil did this!