{"id":682,"date":"2008-08-04T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T02:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2008-08-04T21:22:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T02:22:58","slug":"cedar-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/08\/04\/cedar-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3185\/2706275625_c1163b87b5_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cork Screw\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3185\/2706275625_15cf84af62.jpg\" alt=\"Trustys at Cedar Point\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trusty&#39;s at Cedar Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With my brother&#8217;s family in town, we decided to brave the lines at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarpoint.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cedar Point<\/a>.\u00a0 The picture above demonstrates how advanced our communications have become.\u00a0 I stood under the Cork Screw and waited for my wife to call me from the loading platform.\u00a0 Somehow our crew managed to get the first ten seats and I photographed them as they went by.\u00a0 Those two empty seats aren&#8217;t empty.\u00a0 If you look closely, you can see some &#8220;little kid&#8221; hair.<\/p>\n<p>On the Skyhawk we had eight seats together.\u00a0 My wife snapped the picture below when we were 125 feet above where she was standing.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know those two people on the far left, but everyone else was in our group.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3045\/2706294225_3fe42ba852_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Skyhawk\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3045\/2706294225_a518008350.jpg\" alt=\"The Skyhawk\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skyhawk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s my mom on the Wildcat.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3143\/2707122614_eed41dfb5a_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Grandma on the Wildcat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3143\/2707122614_eed41dfb5a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Grandma on the Wildcat\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grandma on the Wildcat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can see the whole set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trustypics\/sets\/72157606401348311\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One cool technology addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarpoint.com\/public\/park\/rides\/coasters\/raptor\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Raptor<\/a> was the &#8220;ride cam.&#8221;\u00a0 Behind each pair of seats is a camera that records you during the entire ride.\u00a0 When you exit the ride, you can purchase a DVD of you riding the Raptor.\u00a0 There are actually two cameras that cover four seats.\u00a0 When you sit down in the ride, check between the seats in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t see cameras on the other coasters, but it&#8217;s only a matter of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my brother&#8217;s family in town, we decided to brave the lines at Cedar Point.\u00a0 The picture above demonstrates how advanced our communications have become.\u00a0 I stood under the Cork Screw and waited for my wife to call me from &hellip; 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