We rode the Timber Wolf wooden roller coaster next but amazingly I didn't get any pictures of it. Those who must see pics of it can click on here to see the page for it on the Worlds of Fun website:
Timber Wolf. It was on this coaster that DS14 lost his cell phone out of his pocket.
Don't get wet from the fountains that operate under this ride as you get spun upside down as the arms move up and down. Actually, you never do get wet -- the fountains are synced up with the ride and cut out as the "ride car" gets close to them. Note the Timber Wolf coaster in the background.
DS9 and DS11, my baseball pitchers, put those skills to use at the carnival games, this time in the Thunderhawk Games section of the park (used to be Bicentennial Games, also known as Games 1 because it was the first games section built -- Africa Games is called Games 3), the games section I managed in the Spring and Fall of 1987. I didn't think about taking a picture of the game they won at but they threw three rubber baseballs at a target about 2 inches wide and 8 inches tall (though the sweet spot on the target is about 2 inches by 5 inches because you have to hit the upper part of the target to get it to flip backwards). There were about 100 of these targets lined up about 20 in a row for five rows. Anyway, on the first $5 spent for 3 balls, both DS9 and DS11 knocked down three targets (DS9's were all in the same row, right next to each other) and won jumbo prizes as pictured here (not the Nemo fish that DS11 also won throwing bean bags in a similar game that was $3 for 5 bags):
Close to nightfall, these pics are of the go-kart track with the Patriot inverted roller coaster in the background. The third pic below is a stock photo from the Worlds of Fun website showing what the Patriot is since I never got any good photos of it. It still freaks me out when I come off the lift hill in an inverted coaster and there is nothing under my feet (for about 10 stories or so).
The last coaster we hit, Spinning Dragons, was probably the only real line we stood in all day and it was only about 15 minutes. Spinning Dragons is a "crazy mouse"-like coaster where the cars spin, kind of like Primeval Whirl at Animal Kingdom. There is less spinning than Primeval Whirl but the coaster ride itself is more intense.
-- Rob
I'm glad I didn't let you keep me up any later last night than you did! I was TIRED this morning. And no, I'm not going back to bed now. When I was taking my sister to the airport I saw a sign that said Miami 234 miles and I thought of driving down to see you.
(Note that unless otherwise specified, the people on the rides in these pics are strangers. I couldn't take a pic of us on the ride when I was riding it.)
