More coasters and some rides

As I promised a couple of days ago, here's more pictures of coasters, and some rides.

OK, so it's just one more coaster, but it's a good one :) This is Wicked Twister. It goes back and fourth..this is just one of the spikes.

This has a couple of rides in it, but I'll get to the other one later. The one with the cars hanging down is the sky ride..nothing too exciting. It pretty much just gets you from one end of the park, to the other. I only really ride it to get some cool pictures.
This one is called Monster. I used to call it the Octopus....if that lets you know what it is. It used to be one of my favorites.
This is the Power Tower (the other ride in the picture of sky ride). It has four poles with cars on them. Two of them (the red side) shoot you up in the air. The other two (the green side) take you up slowly and then drop you.
This is Skyhawk. One of my favorites !! It has two giant swings that ..well...swing really high.
This is MaXair, another one of my favorites. It swings AND spins at the same time :)

This one is a classic. The Farris Wheel (spelling?). No explanation needed.

This is another one that you should know about. This one is one of, I think, 4 Merry-go-rounds in the park (one of which is called Cedar Downs and reminds me of Mary Poppins haha, I'll have to get a picture and post it later)

And finally a picture of CP's skyline at sunset :)

Dinner with friends

So, I finally got to go to a nice dinner with some friends, well with CJ and some of his friends. I got to meet new people though. We went to eat at a place called Mon Ami. It was really good (but really expensive). CJ made a cake for his friend Michelle's birthday. It turned out really nice, and it tasted good :)
We had a great time. We were there for 3 hours and didn't even realize it lol

COME PLAY MY GAME!!

Ya, that's about what my day consists of...or just serving the people that are yelling that. For those of you that may not know, I'll tell you what my job consists of. This is mostly just because I'm bored out of my mind, not for your entertainment lol.

Depending on what area I'm in (which for now I'm in area 3...in the back of the park) I see what game I'm working, if I am working a game at all, and I go check out the cash bag and box for that game. I count the money and make sure there's $100 in fives and $100 in ones. I then take the 10 minute stroll out to area 3.
Now depending on what game I'm working, some of the other games may already be up and running. Most of the games in area 3 open at 10 when the park opens, but then some of them open at 11:30...why?... I don't know. But, if I was working second shift, then of course all of the games would be open and I would just be letting someone go at 2 or 4 in the afternoon. Anyway, I go and wait for my supervisor, Andy or Kati, to open the gate for my game and then I would proceed to put my flash up. "Flash" is just a fancy term we use for the stuffed animals that hang by hooks to attract people to our game. Hanging flash isn't as easy as you would think it is. It all has to be perfectly straight and have a pattern to it, because you know that's what everyone is looking for, a pattern in the stuffed animals, right. So, now that my flash is up, I have to make sure all the counters are clean and bug free, nobody wants to play a game with bugs on it. And now the game is open :)
Now it's time to make money. We have to yell at the top of our lungs to get people to play our games, and you have to yell at everyone...or you get yelled at. So, even if you know they won't play, you have to try to convince them that your game is the best one there (or the easiest).
And then there's closing a game. The last hour of the park being open goes by very slow, because at any moment in that hour your supervisor could tell you to do last calls, which is the last call for people to play the game. Usually you just yell out once and then immediately close the game. closing is a good deal easier than opening. You take down the flash, throw it on the floor, and put your money up. Then you take your money back to cash control and clock out, you're done.
Now for the "behind the scenes." When you're not working in a game you're an "extra" or a "breaker." Being a breaker is pretty cool, because you're giving people breaks. So, you're only spending 30min. to an hour in each game. Time goes pretty quick as a breaker. The only downfall is .. you take your break last..if you get a break (you wouldn't get a break because you would usually get sent home an hour early). As and extra you do a lot more. You have to make sure every game has enough prizes to give out (because they can't go back and get their own), give everyone water, give bathroom breaks (because we give them a lot of water), keep the back rooms clean (it can get very annoying, you get it all clean then someone wrecks it completely, so they ask you to do it again...), and then do whatever the supervisors ask you to do. Being an extra can be very annoying...you're the first ones to be sent home.

Well, I'm going to go back to being bored. I can't think of anything else to tell you about my job, you can ask questions if you want to..

Busy, busy, busy..and some history :)

Ya. So I haven't written for over a month....sorry about that. I got really busy with work and for a while I was just going to give up the whole blogging thing. Then I decided to get back on track...it would give me something to do at least.

So the last time I wrote, I was getting ready to move in with 15 other girls. Well I met a girl here and we decided to be roommates, so I moved into the dorms instead. I later found that this was a really good move, but I'll get into this later. For a few days we were the only ones in the room for 3 and we hoped it stayed that way. We also found out that because the park wasn't open yet, people were very loud....I mean, they still are that way, but not as late into the night because we actually work now lol. Anyways, after about 3 days our third roommate moved in and she was really cool, she saved us from our boredom. She brought a TV, Playstation, Guitar Hero, singing games, and a fridge...ya, so we accepted her right away :) We actually became pretty good friends. It was fun, we went into the park before it opened and watched the rides as they were test running them. We goofed around while we still could. Well, after a few weeks, Megan, my first roommate, decided that she liked the Bayside Apartments better so she moved in with a friend, and a day later Star, my second roommate, moved out too......
Don't get me wrong...we're still friends. Star works in games with me so I see her all the time :)
Megan works in the stores so I go visit her sometimes.
I've made some other really good friends here too. My best friend here, CJ, showed me around the park, the best rides to ride, how to get free food :), and so on. He also made sure I rode all of the coasters. I mean, that's why I came here right, they have the best coasters here, no joke. I couldn't even tell you which one is my favorite.

This one is Top Thrill Dragster. It was the tallest and fastest, but another park recently opened a ride that beat it. Anyway, it is 420ft. high, and it goes 120 MPH. The ride only lasts 17 seconds and is known for it's 4 hour lines.

This one is Millennium Force. This isn't the best picture I have of it, but it was the tallest before they built Dragster. It was built in 2000.

This is Maverick, the newest of all the coasters. It was just built last year and won awards for being the best new coaster in 2007. It's drop is a 95 degree angle (as shown in the picture) and halfway through the ride you enter a tunnel and get shot out of it at 70 MPH.
This one is the Mantis. It's the only stand up coaster in Ohio. It also has the tallest loop in Cedar Point.

This one is Gemini. It's a dueling coaster. If you don't know what that means, it has two trains that run at the same time side by side, and they race. It's pretty cool to watch (which is what I get to do all day because I work across from it lol). It just recently celebrated it's 30th anniversary.
This one is the Raptor. It's a fun one to ride, but I think it's also one of the noisiest lol. It's not necisarilly one of my favorites because I always come off of it with a headache.
This one is the Iron Dragon. Along with the Corkscrew, this one is probably one of the most boring roller coasters in the park... lol

As you can see, I'm also learning a lot about the history of the park. :) That happens when you spend every day here for months at a time.
There's 10 other coasters, but I don't have pictures of them on my computer yet. I'm sure I'll get them posted when I get them uploaded. The only thing that really has been going on is work, there's nothing too exciting about that. Maybe I'll post later about some of the cool rides here (non-roller coaster ones :) ).