The Cornball Express is the twister coaster in the park. Pretty good but not as good as the Hurricane.
Today was the club's T-shirt day where everyone wore the offical club merchandise making it very easy to spot the members on the rides.
Which one isn't the club member?
A near take-over of the Cornball Express.
Tig'rr is the strangely named flitzer type coaster and its alright.
A really nice ride op gave me a ticking off for snapping the cables on this.
The haunted walkthrough was pretty lengthy but not exciting. I was expecting live actors to jump out but there weren't any. One good bit was a church themed night club with echoing rock music, something I hadn't seen before.
I can only assume this is for a diving show otherwise its quite expensive theming.
Loco Sumo was the most popular ride of the day, at least based on the queue length but I think that's more to the throughput being quite slow. You have to cram yourself inside small trains.
The cars that hurtle around some insane hairpin bends and drops that come out of nowhere.
Am I seeing double?
That's the boat we'd be riding later this morning. It goes up-and-down the lake and offers a nice view of the park.
See!
Buried in the center of the water slides is another coaster, a real brute of a coaster in fact. Riding it once was enough. I'm not really a fan of these Galaxi rides.
Monster Ride 3D, a simulator ride, seemed out of place at the end of the water park section of the park.
Jazz cows, moooooooooooombop!
Lots of hungry fish that apparently always hang here wanting to be fed and when you feed them they just remain with their mouths open wanting more. Interesting that they can remember where to go but can't remember when they last ate.
You can buy Steel Hawg merchandising to celebrate another piece of the ride being added.
You must adhere to the signs or Indiana's finest will beat you to death with their nightsticks.
This man is still on the run as they couldn't catch him.
This man was caught for running illegal moonshine over the state line
and this man was arrested for carrying a blade......I think.Basically if you are going to risk running you're going to get caught unless you're Dwain Chambers.
Steel Hawg construction, the ride actually looks quite nuts.
Look at how twisty that piece of track is!
Another piece is added and with a few good blows of the hammer goes into place. Lets celebrate by buying some merchandise!Soon after we left the park which I enjoyed for its tranquility more than its ride. It has a similar vibe to Lake Winne in Georgia. I think being beside a large body of water automatically gives any park a more chilled atmosphere.
From Indiana Beach we continued a drive North into Chicago where we stopped at a little surprise park.
Kiddieland is a small city park, not as small as the one in San Antonio but still quick to get around. It can be found in the Melrose Park part of Chicago, which looks to be a little run down part of the city but its alright really. The park originally opened in the 20s so must be doing something right to still be around.
The park's circumference can be traveled on the parks mini-train ride. I'd be riding this later.
The reason for stopping here was to ride Little Dipper, the park's wooden coaster that opened in 1950.
The coaster was a lot of fun, quite short and well maintained. Like a comedian midget in a suit perhaps. Oh, the guy in the yellow shirt at Indiana Beach wasn't a member of the public. He was a club member who had already wore the club shirt earlier in the trip (in his defence because his luggage got lost on the flight).
The park has a good selection of rides but what stands out is the high level of maintenance and care that had been given. Steel was polished where possible, and you could tell that the park staff really had a pride in their rides. Some of the rides were quite old and still running well.
Riding the train around the park, which I thought was quite fun and pleasant.
That was until I discovered this scary monster had boarded the train just before it entered a tunnel.
Umm.. cross eyed elephant.
Some club members enjoying the kiddy whip, and rather surprisingly it didn't break.After our brief stopover at this really charming park we headed deeper into Chicago and to our hotel. Closeby there was a mall where we were challenged by security after he saw us walking, clearly not the done thing. Realising where we were from he then stopped us a second time to help him with his English ancestry but we couldn't help him; England isn't that small.
We found this shooting game inside the mall, not in the children's play area but inside a shop that specialised in hunting equipment. We then bought some food, I bought new glasses straps as I'd lost mine at Indiana Beach and then we went and ate in the Rainforest Cafe, where the food was nice but too plentiful for us. A friendly deadhead (I mean fan of the Grateful Dead, not as an insult) providing some good service and stories of his trip to England.
A view from the hotel and way in the background is Six Flags Great America, our next park. Raging Bull can be seen.
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