The second hand unwinds
So today my photo dumps begin our trip to Michigan's Adventure for their Halloween event, the Tricks and Treats festival. Ah, but this is from a week later, and for the closing day of the season. See how much things change from one Sunday to the next coming up starting --- now.
Establishing shot from the parking lot. We had a slightly better parking spot than even last wek. This is maybe the most threatening cloud cover we've ever seen at Michigan's Adventure and I think you'll agree, this is not a threatening cloud cover.
And we used the license we inferred existed to go in costume! Here's bunny_hugger as Stitch-but-in-the-American-Coaster-Enthusiasts group (see the fanny pack). I wore my Angel kigurumi, the red panda one having too much tail to be sure I'd fit on any coaster. (We went to the park in normal dress and changed in the car and were prepared to change back if we weren't allowed in like that.)
But as you can see from the green ``alien abduction'' inflatable costume on the right there, adults were allowed in as long as they weren't dressed preposterously.
The swan boats with the skeletons were still hanging around the lagoon. I'm not sure the partly-sunk rowboat was last time.
Here's a tree that decided it was going to get its leaf-peepers in now or else.
It was a gentle, fairly warm autumn, which may be why the leaves were still in such brilliant form instead of having all fallen down.
The mysterious dock built into the lagoon had made progress too. We still, early the next season, don't know what it was built for.
They got very thematic about blocking off Wolverine Wildcat, though. I kind of wonder about the use of this sort of 'Danger' tape for environmental theming effect and if we maybe shouldn't be careful about that.
That's some impressive spider work building webs across Wolverine Wildcat's queue like that!
Kids enjoying some activity booth that the Sun has anointed from above.
We went out to the car for something --- I think we were stowing souvenirs --- and for some reason they gave us reentry passes instead of just letting us use our season passes to go in again. Note that it claims they took a picture of me at the exit so they could be sure the same person reentered, although, again, my season pass has my photo attached.
Going back in. Here's the signboard listing what attractions are open and, trust me, it's mostly kid rides for some reason.
Trivia: An anonymous pamphlet published in Naples in the 1690s, A New and Brief Way to Make With Ease Every Kind of Sorbet, contains the earliest known recipe for the making of ``vanilla ice'', to become the world's most popular ice cream flavor. Source: Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, Sarah Lohman. Though because of the Spanish monopoly on vanilla beans it would take some time for vanilla ice cream to outcompete other flavors that I'm saving for a later trivia.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Volume 37: The Lost Bomb Islands, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
(PS: There is no significance to the subject line, it's just a song we heard in bluegrass acoustic version at an amusement park for some reason.)