Thursday I go waltzing to the zoo: austin

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Thursday I go waltzing to the zoo

Jun 28, 2024 00:10

On my humor blog this week I continued my effort to be the top Mr Dooley of Archey Road blogger of the modern day! ... So, I guess that's done. But if you'd like to see the results and didn't read them already, here's your chance. As ever, you can get this all fed directly to your RSS reader if you prefer. Catch the one that talks about bar-dwelling pre-pinball mechanical games of chance!

Today I bring you ... the end of Tricks-and-Treats at Michigan's Adventure, and the close of their 2023 season. I hope you're ready for whatever Cedar Point Halloweekends pictures come next!

So which offends you more: the skeleton rabbit's bone-ear-tis, or the puffbone tail?

Skeleton in the back getting ready to tackle Hipster Skeleton up front here.

And for all that, a normal enough scene of helping a grown skeleton on the swings.

This skeleton is so offended by the bird wings there that they had to stab a pumpkin. As the kids say, big mood.

And that's that for the Boneyard. Next we went to Mad Mouse for a rare ride on it while it was operating. You see returning the nice tree colors although the evergreens flanking the exit were the same old green as ever.

Park's closed, season's done, and now we're finally starting to get lights on the midway games.

Halloween-season map of the park, with sections blanked out to let you know you can't ride Shivering Timbers or Wolverine Wildcat or the water park.

Park staff cleaning up now that the pumpkins have been adequately cleaned out.

I loved that the family was using the rental stroller as pumpkin cart. Also look how much they got from the trick-or-treating at midway stations there, that's a good haul for mid-October.

Decorations set up by the park entrance. Note the complete lack of pumpkins.

Do you recognize the (decorative) kale here? Hint: it's the one that looks like the Deep Space Nine wormhole opening up. Our pet rabbit would be so happy to lunch here.

Farewell, Michigan's Adventure! We hope to see you soon! (We have literally already seen it again.)

Trivia: A vigorous debate in the 1850s among biologists was about whether the cell was the unitary basis of life forms, or the protoplasm, with the cells only a convenient vessel holding it. While the cell won, the protoplasmists observed that every cell does contain protoplasm. Source: The Song Of The Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Currently Reading: The Mathematical Radio: Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband, Paul J Nahin.

The subject line has nothing to do with anything, it's just a song in mind. Don't worry about making it make sense.

michigan's adventure, halloweekends, humor