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Author Valleyfair/Camp Snoopy TR - 5/30/05
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Registered: 11/7/2002

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6/5/2005 11:31:10 PM
Headed out of Eau Claire at about 8AM for the 2 hour drive to Valleyfair. My continuing adventure of how to use a season pass from a CF sister park continues. I decide to head straight to the Customer Service office (which is a good thing because a lot of people were at the Season Pass Processing office). At customer service they look at my Dorney ID, write down the number and push a button to side me through a side door. Boy was that easy, but it still strange that each CF park I went to in 2005 handled the sister park pass differently.

My cold is finally subsiding but I still don't think I can handle spin and pukes.

I decide to head straignht to Wild Thing but hop on the Mad Mouse first, knwoing that line big quickly for slow loading coasters. Then I head to Wild Thing and get 5 rides in, but I'm not impressed.

Next up is a couple of rides on Excalibur, a steel coaster on a wooden frame and nothing to write home about.

Even though I said I wouldn't rides soin and pukes, their Trabant "Wheel of Fortune" looks great paitned like a roulette wheel. Unfortunately they will not accept single riders. Next up a ask if I can ride the kiddie coaster "Mild Thing" and I am denied.

I head back across the whole park to Steel Venom and with a 20 minute wait I ride it just once. It does seem to hold you as long on the spike as they do at SFGAm.

Decide to ride the Corkscrew in the first row of the 2nd car. The first row always provides more leg room. Nothing special to report except that the lake it traverses looks pretty disgusting.

Hgih Roller glides along nicely but really doesn't provide much air, just a lot bit of floating on the hills. Not very thrilling, not rough, no laterals. Seatbelts but no seat divider.

Then a rode what looks to be a tame spinning ride, Supercat, and it was pretty mild. Then I went on Power Tower, Super Shot side because I prefer that to the drop. I was going to ride the Falling Star called Northern Lights but alas, no single riders allowed again and no single riders are waiting.

The sun is starting to shine down and since I'm still sick I decide to head to Mall of America for Camp Snoopy

It's a 15/20 minute drive and I go straight to the ticket booth and pay $8.80 for eleven tickets. I already know that Timberland Twister is 6 tickets aqnd Pepsi Ripsaw coaster is 5 tickets.

By the way - the Camp Snoopy layout is very impressive you hardly even realize you are inside, although the air conditioning was much appreciated on my part

I go to Timberland Twister and it is temporarily closed so I head to Pespi Ripsaw Coaster which is a neat little coaster. It picks up a decent amount of speed for a coaster of this type and is fairly long. Then I head right back to Timberland Twister and find that it is a 25 minute wait. Well I have my 6 tickets and no place to go so I wait and it is an enjoyable coaster even though my car didn't spin as much as other cars I was watching. Both coasters interact with other rides and trees very well.

I was going to eat at MoA but instead deciced to head near the Univ of Minnesota campus to see if there was good cheap college food, but before that I try to head to Como Park.

Bad idea, it seems that every family in St. Paul and Minneapolis is at Como Park on Memorial Day. So I missed seeing a 1914 PTC Carousel (actually I see the pavillion from my car) and miss riding a small family coaster. There is just no place to park.

At the UM campus I stop at a Chipotle for 3 soft shell chicken tacos. I love Chipotle, I don't know how I ever ate at Taco Bell.

and that's my Minnesota excursion

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