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Part of the A/C is working now was was better this weekend vs last, but not great. Hopefully by next weekend it will be back to 100%.

There is an issue with the server freezing and we have to restart it and seems to happen randomly. The server was down for about 3 hours yesterday. I am waiting on Malem to address it, but there is also a new version of the forums that @Dane purchased so we need to build a new server anyway. My plan is to migrate over to the new server once it is built and setup. Hopefully that will take care of the outages we have been seeing. We are subject to Malem's availability to get it ready for us.

So Enchanted Parks might be trying to make a good first impression. Despite it being dead, MIA is running all trains on the coasters that can. I don't think that happens under FUN or SIX.

Shivering Timbers got some extensive retracking from RMC and she's running much better than my last trip in 2023. 2nd half needs some TLC still, but it's bareable.

Day 1 went pretty well, though slightly not to plan. The drive up to Muskegon from Cincinnati was mostly fine, though, the final stretches are a bit of a hassel. The driver quality in Michigan really amps up in intensity (as in forcing you to do 80 mph) once I got on I-94 approaching Grand Rapids and nearly all the way to Muskegon. There's an aweful stretch in Grand Rapids where its' fairly curvy and the upkeep isn't great, and its still marked 70 mph. Ugh. Muskegon was hopping for the first time in my 3 visits. There was a charity run this morning, and then a minor league baseball game, which, the opposing team is staying at my hotel. I did manage to take a bit of a drive around including Lake Michigan beach ERT. So, I don't post about this often, but I do live with a fairly significant digestive condition. I've had it for about 20 years, and I'm mostly feeling good most days now, but today was the one day it decided to give me a headache, literally. I got randomly dehydrated, so I had to keep it simple for dinner. There's a decent simple burger joint in Muskegon called the Station Grill that I always stop at, but I'll probably leave that until after MIA tomorrow. I only intend to eat like snacks or similar things at MIA with a useless meal plan and their menu is pretty abysmal. Luckily, there's a fantastic breakfast only hole-in-the-all place in Muskegon, too called Toast N' Jams, another one of my Muskegon staples. There's another park by Muskegon Bay I always stop at and I'll do that either before or after MIA tomorrow (it's really nice at sunset). Here are some photos of Lake Michigan ERT.

I miss the meet & greets with the Hanna-Barbera characters and especially the Hanna-Barbera carousel! 🎠

I would love it if some of KI's flat rides would get more merch, imagine if Zephyr or Scrambler had t-shirts or hats!

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I was thinking about a potential Christmas overlay and this is my opinion of what we could do, Christmas trees and decor in the queue area and in Maestro’s balcony and basically the premise could be that the Phantom Theater cast is having a party to celebrate the festive season but the ghost notes wreck it when Maestro goes to play the festive songs on the pipe organ. I think that would be a fun ride and give it some festive theme along with altering the sound track to Christmas music played over pipe organ or something.

I just wish all the success to Herschend and Kentucky Kingdom. I’m hoping it will force Six Flags to keep Kings Island competitive, beautiful, and well themed.

I will continue to say that the merchandise is priced too high....I'd venture to say, they'd sell even more if the prices were brought down. Do I buy a $48 shirt (spitballing atm) or do I buy a snack at Sweetspot for much less?

@malem is working on it. We are now sure why the server keeps doing this.

Is the site made by Intamin or something?...jk it just feels like every couple of days the site crashes lol

Last weekend my wife and I had to bus a table in Brewhouse for there was not a clean table to sit down to eat inside. That section we were in was not bussed the whole time we ate. On our way out that day there was a small child walking on the bricks in front of the KI sign at the entrance. The male adult watching the child just did nothing while watching the child pick the flower pedals off the flowers and throwing them. 😧