We need its heat
I apologize for punting again on writing up our Halloweekends visit or explaining more about our new rabbit but yesterday we had a pinball tournament (bunny_hugger won B Division, story to follow) and then something taking up today (story to follow) so please instead take some more pictures of Eclipse Day:
bunny_hugger packing up her gear as the Moon continues its work of leaving the Sun's direction.
Finally, something to eat! Some eclipse cakes from the Grand Pavilion that kind of melted in the heat of the still-obstructed sun.
Astronomy types having fun with their gear and the waning hours of the eclipse. We were there through to fourth contact, that is, the point where the trailing edge of the Moon leaves the disc of the Sun.
Slightly wider view of the astronomy types. In the background you can see the camera gear of news crews. In the farther background you can see the new spire for Top Thrill 2, weeks away from opening and closing for the year.
A view we couldn't have had before the Grand Pavilion was built: looking through the Giant Wheel past the Kiddie Kingdom carousel through Raptor (the green roller coaster with the loop) to Blue Streak (the wood roller coaster with the little hat building seen in the middle of Raptor's loop).
They were taking cards for a Time Capsule so I did a quick little sketch that would surely baffle people decades from now if anyone were to remember there was a Time Capsule. (They're almost certain not to.)
Still, no reason there can't be someone at Cedar Point 75 years from now, right? Here's where they were passing out cards --- the front is for saying who you are and what you're thinking about; I used the back to draw Austin hugging BunnyHugger --- and collecting them.
Scenic backdrop in case you wanted to be photographed in front of their Total Eclipse logo.
Back to rides! Here the Wild Mouse gives up its passengers to that cat who's definitely not Tom and Jerry's Tom because he's Herman and Katnip's Katnip-colored.
Nice steep angle looking up to the Wild Mouse platform.
There's seven cars, one for each of six mice and one cheese car. Ziggy's up front here and Chase, who insists he's the head mouse, is coming up behind.
Another bit of eclipse trivia. I didn't see any of the beads but there was a lot to look for at the moment, you know?
Trivia: In 1972 the Auto Body Association of America declared astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt honorary members for life, following their ad hoc repair of a dust-blocking fender on the Apollo 17 lunar rover. Source: Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, Earl Swift. Swift notes the organization, or at least its president, was in Neptune City, New Jersey, which in this context I'm sad to say was named for the ocean god rather than the planet. Also I was sad about that when I was a kid, too.
Currently Reading: Images of America: Lake Shore Electric Railway, Thomas J Patton, Dennis Lamont, Albert Doane.