Photo TR : Toverland Events & ERT

[GroteslurfWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

La Ronde, it's in fact a lovely park, with great background settings so close to Montreal city. But the park operations, WTF was that ? The operators were really terrible. It's so weird to visit several SF parks and see such different operations.

[GroteslurfWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

A Six Flags park, but what a nice park. It doesn't have real top coasters, but the landscaping is so lovely, people are friendly, i really liked this park.

[paiging_jenWhen I grow up, I want to breed donkeys!]

Awww....Roxy was telling Steve and I about this on the way to SFGAdv. Wasn't it his birthday or something?

[fatdaddyI'm 39 and can't find the Shift Key]

Awesome!

[GroteslurfWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

Awww....Roxy was telling Steve and I about this on the way to SFGAdv. Wasn't it his birthday or something?

It was quite an experience. I had never done that before, give a kid money to ride a kiddie with us. So Roxanne & me were standing there, not allowed to ride on our own. Roxanne had the idea to give a kid a dollar or 2 to ride with us. Since english is not my first language, and because it was here idea , I let Roxanne do the talking. The kid on the picture was waiting in line and Roxanne asked him. He replied 'I have to ask my mom'. He ran back to his mom and started telling that 2 adults offered him 2 dollars to ride with them .... Well, from the look on the face of the mom, I assume that must have been what het told here. She seemed VERY confused and obviously didn't trust the thing at all. But Roxy, with all her charm, started talking to the mom and explained what we do, etc. But before she could explain everything, the dad was there all of a sudden, and he didn't trust it AT ALL and was looking quite angry to us. But Roxy managed to explain it very well and the parents were ok with our proposal. The older brother of the little guy, didn't dare to ride the kiddie on his own, and he even now had the chance to ride the kiddie with 2 experienced roller coaster riders So we were there waiting to ride with the 2 brothers. However, the older brother was to tall to ride with an adult unfortunately, so as he didn't dare to ride on his own, we were going to ride with the youngest kid. We gave the 2 kids 2 bucks each, and rode the kiddie coaster together with the little kid.
In the meanwhile we had already build up a deep friendship with the parents and kids and when it was time to say goodbye, the oldest kid told us : 'thank you so much, although I didn't get to ride, I really thank you'.
Ok, we are 2 adults, we can cope with that.
But then the little kid said thank you too and how much he enjoyed it, and thank you for the money and blablabla. The 2 kids AND parents were really smiling big time and then the mother said about the little kid : 'And it's his birthday today !!!!!!
We turned around, looked at each other, and there we were, 2 roller coaster geeks with tears in our eyes. Roxy said to me : damn, this was f*cking emotional !!! But it really was.
I hope the above is understandable and not to weird. I'm sure Roxanne would be able to explain the situation much better, but I did my best.

[STR8FXXXINEDGEJar-Jar Binks smells like Donkey]

^ What a great story! I may or may not have gotten a little teary eyed just reading it. You did a fine job of explaining the story. Makes perfect sense.

This was another awesome update, Benny! You've got some really good photos!

[cal1br3ttoWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

Great story, Benny! I'm not surprised you two were able to pull it off.

I've never felt more awkward credit whoring than when I was gearing up to ride Jr. Gemini, probably because the wait was so long. Thankfully, the chosen lady couldn't have communicated better with her child, and she conversed a little with me as well. I'm actually more uncomfortable with the idea of paying (non-TPR) kids than not; to each their own.

[GroteslurfWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

Thanks Jen, Caesar, Brian & Laura.

No updates for at least a week now, because I'm off to a music festival in an hour and tomorrow morning we fly to Italy for a week, from where I'll bring home at least 8 new TR's

[vuurvogelDonkeys are my way of life!]

^Looking forward to your Italy TR then. Have fun.

[GroteslurfWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

Last park of the NE trip and what a beauty it was : Magic Forest !! I really like those small parks and especially this one. Full of muffler men, something of which I had never heard before. Well I've seen those giant puppets before, but I didn't know they were called muffler men.