The Official "TPR MidWest USA 2007" Trip Thread!

[OldJJmanBorn when stamps were 2 cents]

I'd even settle for sometimes cool Rich or Cool Rich's buddy

Well, you know, a COOL Rich would be going on the Japan trip.

Oh wait! There is one!!!




JJ

[coaster05I prefer to mate with donkeys over humans!]

I'd even settle for sometimes cool Rich or Cool Rich's buddy

Well, you know, a COOL Rich would be going on the Japan trip.

Oh wait! There is one!!!




JJ

I see how it is. Here I go and stay away from the old jokes, then I get dissed. I have a lot I could say, but I'll take the high road. I am just impressed that someone who grew up using the telegraph can handle this piece of modern equipment.

[OldJJmanBorn when stamps were 2 cents]

^LMAO!!

(I kinda knew that was coming!)


JJ

[simlesaShe turned me into a donkey! I got better...]

I found a few extra interesting photos I didn't post before, so here they are.

--Luko

[mr_teisco_delreyI wrote the book about donkeys!]

Methos - The reason there is a giant cross next to the porn shop is because the complex was originally a Christian retreat. When they built the thing, I couldn't help but wonder who would want to go to a retreat in a hot steel building by the Interstate. The answer was nobody.

Hey everyone!

I apologize for the lack of updates over the past few days. It has taken us quite some time to get everything we've needed for the upcoming Japan/Korea trip sorted out once we got back from the Midwest so the updates had to be put on hold for a while. Besides, there's been so many other AWESOME updates from other people anyway!

So for today here is an update from three, that's right *THREE* parks! Mt. Olympus, Riverview Park, and Timber Falls.

Our visit to all three parks were very good. Mt. Olympus' new 9 foot wave pool was INSANE! It was a bummer that we got rained out of night ERT on the first night, but we did have our morning ERT the next day, and the park had more stuff opened for us to help make up for it.

I have to say that I thought all the woodies at Mt. Olympus were running very well. I was afraid that Hades might have suffered a bit or gotten rougher, but other than one spot (and I forget where it was) that had some jack hammering, the rest of the ride ran GREAT!

Riverview is a small little park that we always manage to have a bit of fun at. No Spinning Dragons for us this time around (we've had our spinnin dragons quota for the year!) but they did have a "Bouncy Bouncy" ride which was fun but nowhere NEAR as cool as the Zaragoza version!

Timber Falls was an interesting visit as the coaster had been struck by lightning the night before!!! I got the call in the morning saying they didn't think they would get the ride up and running for us, but they'd keep me updated throughout the day.

I then got the call littereally as we were about to board the busses back to Mt. Olympus telling me they got the ride operational again!!! So off to Timber Falls we go! When we get there, we found the three guys at the control panel pratically "hot wiring" the coaster to get it to run. (Not really, but that's what it looked like!) And they managed to get it all fixed up and running for us the rest of the day! HUGE Kudos for the guys at Timber Falls! Avalanche was also running great! The airtime hills were INSANE and the speed that ride maintains is crazy. It was a bit rougher around the turns, but the insanity of the rest of the coaster made up for it.

Anyway, on to some photos!!!

[jamesdillamanFlight of James: Ride of Steel the Revenge]

Great Pics, Robb and everybody else who submitted photos for the mini update. I guess Timber Falls is a must-do in a Dells trip, huh?

-James Dillaman

[SteveCDonald Duck...]

Bryan's 'All about Me' shirt is just special...and he must feel very honoured.

Bryan if you don't feel honoured you damn well ought to.

Thanks for the update which cheered up the end of a miserable Monday.

Cheers

Steve

[TexTitan01A donkey is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family.]

that last picture perfectly describes how our time @ mt. O was = ALL ABOUT BRYAN!!

Mt. O really was an awesome park...minus the chicks @ the Hades station kickin us out when they already had canceled our ERT...

But oh well, Mt. O is still awesome. Especially those "family raft slides". FAMILY MY A-- those things were intense!

oh, by the way...Robb...SUCK DOWN THAT GYROS WITH JALAPENOS!!

[Roy56Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

^ That's what I remember the most about Mt. O, was standing at the foot of the pink family slide, with Christiana, Elissa, and Vanessa, waiting for Robb's raft to come down and suddenly seeing the water in the slide just STOP! Then the raft hurtling down!