SF Fiesta Texas Sat March 11th

[calcajun]

Ok so, being the lazy bastard that I am, I don't write stuff like this but I will write a little here since I got some good news and some bad at Fiesta.

 

Last time i was here i was evacuated from the storm and i visited the first or second weekend of october 05. seems during the off season Rattler got new track from station to lift, Second layer if helix is pretty much retracked but still bounces you around quite a bit but it didn't hurt me and the straightaway up to the helix got new wood.

Then there are other spots that got new wood in small sections. Can't say if anything was done to the second drop or the third curved drop into the quary wall as i never sat in very front.

 

Now the bad news. It got a little iffy to select your own seat towards the afternoon. On rattler and poltergeist, a third team member was on platform and doing a count of guest's into the chutes. In other words they were only letting 24 or whatever the train could hold onto the platform.

 

AND NOT DOING IT WELL!

 

So if you were in a good position you could get on platform and choose your row and seat but if you were like # 15 or later you generally got stuck in the middle.

 

Maybe they will get better at doing the head count, but they sucked big time today. they were actually doing worse time by trying to find single riders while the second train ended up stacked. There was generally no stacking before they started doing the count.

Or, maybe they will do away with it!

 

 

First few hours you could walk on the coasters but by 1 or 2 it was getting very busy.

 

Tomorow i think i will shoot some vid. I knew i forgot something back home. My tripod and my DV tapes!

Looks like i need to go to wallmart and get a cheapo tripod.