Well, woke up today with overcast/raining so I was expecting to just go to the park, get my SP photo taken and leave. Woke at 10 and got ready but my friend had to search for his parents and we managed to go grab some Manhatten bagel before we left so we didn't leave til 11:00.
We got to the park around 12:30 and looked over to see El Toro and wow, did it catch me by surprise how big it really was. But it was drizzling so I opted to not risk my digital camera in the rain. No biggie, went to GR to activate my passes and got in the park around 1.
My friend had never been on KK so we went straight to there and asked the man how long and he said "no wait". We were amped and walked on 5th row on CP Beat it, great ride. It really got me by surprise where that butterfly feeling lasted the whole launch track and walked around for another lap this time on Gak. After that we went to Medusa and saw El Toro up close for the first time. The first and second hills are done but no work was going on today. Got another walk on, this time front row, loved the positive g's that changed to negative g's on every inversion fell back to the back row and took another ride, still great.
At this time the weather became amazing. We then walked to Robin: The Chiller and my friend needed to eat so he ate, and I got two straight walk on front rows. The Batman trains were still in the station, but no Batman today. We then went to B:TR and it was intense as ever in the back. Did it again, and once more 2 in the back, one 2nd row. After that came Nitro, walked on, front row. Great first drop, just the airtime wasn't that great in the front. We lapped it 3 more times before getting kinda sick.
So we took a small break by walking back to KK for a couple more rides before we went. Got there, still no wait 2nd row CP Beat it, still great. And waiting we saw an ACE-r with a silver ACE jacket boring these girls with opinions of MF, TTD, and KK and explaing the rides. I found that kinda funny. Then we came back and there was a 4 train wait for Gak front row. So we waited and had a chat with a guy that seemed to know his stuff about coasters. The ride was still great in the front. Then we wanted one more ride but when we got back into the statioon, it broke down (Gak was off line or something)
So we went to S:UF. 2 straight rides 5th row and my friend wanted one more so re-rode by himself and got stuck in the flying position for 10 minutes while I rode Twister. We felt that we had enough and it was 5:30 and we already got most of the rides ridden so we went to the parking lot and I got my digital camera and took some shots of Ka and S:UF.
Totals for the day:
KK: 4 (1 front)
Medusa: 2
Nitro: 4 (1 front)
B:TR: 3
R:TC: 2 (Both front)
S:UF: 3
Some notes:
-No construction today of El Toro
-Blueberry Muffin still missing
-B:TC train still in station
-Ka was running great today, even the breakdown was only 10 minutes
-The ops seemed nicer than last year and were very friendly
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