Every Monday I go to a car show in Winthrop Harbor, so on the way back I decided to stop at the park for the last hour or so.

For some reason the base of Sky Trek was blue:


First ride of the night was Whizzer with a two train wait:


Didn't ride it, but the photo was cool:


Was going to ride Chubasco but it broke down as I got in line.


Went to Drop instead, 1 cycle wait.


Around this time the lightning really started picking up so I headed to Eagle before it closed, did about 3 or 4 rides on it, at one point there were only two people on the train, me and some guy. Eagle seems alot more fun with the lightning flashing around it:



With 10 minutes left I ran to Dark Knight. It had about a 10 minute wait, good to get into the Air Conditioning



OMFG CLOWN!


THE EDN


Other Stuff:
Glad the rain held off until after the park closed.

Noticed alot of the lemon-smelling powdered puke-cleaner (I've used it when I worked there and now I can't remember the name of it) being used that day, at Sky Trek and at Whizzer.

Dark Knight's lines seem to get shorter by the day, but I'm glad they added that swinging gate near the entrance to the former Theater Royale.

Eagle's queue needs better security, this lady unhooked the chain that connects the exit path to the queue behind the Wiggles World tent, used her stroller with a baby in it to block the queue, then let some of her family cut into the line that were just coming from the exit path, blocking me and a bunch of people behind me. :x

I need to get to the park more often.

Thanks for showing the trip report.

To me, the park is so packed in July, and especially August that I go less during this time than the beginning. I can't miss the awesome carnivals also during this time, and the gas is costly. I think that it's not worth it to go for 5 hours on a Saturday, and than leave because it's a lot of gas money to go back and forth for one day. It's just been unbearably on a Saturday though to me.

When The Orbit was a two cycle wait during the day, that's unbearable to me. What's the other rides going to be like? I know it's not that bad, but that's not even a great ride. It's an okay ride, and how are the great ride lines? Are they an hour and 1/2? How many lines do they have going for Batman the Ride, and V2? Before, the gas wasn't that high, and it wasn't a big deal but now it is to me. It's different if you live hardly any miles away from the park.

I go in July and August, but not a lot.

Now the American Eagle never gets lines! :)

in the past, the AE used to have long lines for Red & Blue.

Also, I love this picture you took. ^-^