Oh shush!!!
I didnt include the highlight of wandering OFF the main path and seeing a dead rat!

Oh.. and before I forget! Lashbear wanted to make sure that I mentioned in his opinion they were very weak margaritas.
I think we just had so much food, it would have taken many more margaritas to impair their judgement. :cheers:

TQ shots always LOOK fun...and actuallly they are funn foor teh friast fff22ew,, thheennn esssss @llll doun hiiillllllll

*thud*
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Taking this thread back on topic for a brief moment, I met a family from Australia today. Not surprisingly, they were a jovial, pleasant lot. I featured their kids in my Kodak show, and at the end, I asked the three children (about 4, 6 and 8 years old) if, in fact, they liked Vegemite. "We LOVE it!" the oldest exclaimed, and the littlest informed me,"we had it for breakfast today." So, there you go. I let them know I had tried it and was slowly developing a taste for it.

To derail with a couple quick CoasterMatt Ultra Geek thoughts...

The Chaos at Belmont Park is run so piss poorly, it's next to impossible to get a good flipping ride - that isn't a great ride anyway, but it's really not the ride's fault (although, you'll be happy to note, that model was recalled and retrofitted after a couple model wide "uhohs")

For those non enthusiasts - PLEASE, PLEASE, don't judge the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Giant Dipper by the Belmont Park's Giant Dipper - THEY ARE NOT THE SAME RIDES!!!!
SCBB's Giant Dipper is a spectacularly well maintained (they have a crew walking the track and doing inspections every two hours, while the ride is running), very fun, thrilling coaster.

Belmont Park's Giant Dipper is a good trip to the chiropractic clinic :)

Both Giant Dippers run Morgan Manufacturing trains, but the ones at Santa Cruz have comfier seating, and are better suited to the track design.

The Giant Dipper in Santa Cruz is teh awesome.

This I can vouch for, yesterday I felt like I'd been run over by a mac truck.

Still was one of the funnest days in a very long time. Lash is the king of the tilt-o-whirl that I can vouch for. And the look on Stoats face when he realized Chaos would spin him upside down, and we were already strapped in starting the ride - priceless.

Next time we'll all suit up and ride the waves, that thing looked cool.

Somehow this doesnt make me feel better about riding it, but at least I feel justified in thinking that I did NOT like it.

re: dipper

aww. it wasnt that bad. it wasnt all that great, but it wasnt terrible.

however neither was it pretty, safe feeling, comfortable or exactly photogenic