Yeah..... Year end review via my Project365 on Flickr
Looking back at some of the 360 photos I'd taken of myself over the past year so far and doing a "what I did this year" blog post.. Wooooo... so here we go..
((editor note: by years end it'll be 366 photos... but there's still a week to go.. so yeah... numbers are slightly off, who cares lets go))
Yeah, like it was gonna be hard to guess the year started off at Diznee World.
Rode the amazing new Zamperla Happy Swing at Funspot... (creepy!)
RING TAILED LEMURS!
Yeah, contender for absolute best part of 2012
Video here via YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzZk5kO8wQ
Went to the "new" World of Coke on one of my 8 or so ATL trips
this year...whhuuutttt
Yaayyy, Mr.Mondial Shake!
(likely my favorite flatride at the moment)
((But that changes a lot... I guess its the mood I'm in... either way... its in my top 5))
Video via YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNGJTsKmnI
Yaayyy! I also got to ride Strates Shows TOPSPIN after years of trying....!
And because Jeff and I heckled the op, he gave us a triple cycle about as good as you can get without running it manual!
(guess that made up for the fact soon after a massive storm blew in and closed the fair for the night)
Cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake
Believe it or not, I had a birthday in 2012 :O
And I jumped up and down like a fool at the Magic Kingdom on leap year...day
(after having worked till 5am and before working till 5am, again)
Got to ride Wade's Huss SDC Pirate for the first time ever :D
I believe it hadn't been used for a few years or maybe it just didn't play any of the spots I visited
SPACE ROLLER RETURNED!!!
(and went MIA again shortly after :'()
((Why cant we just keep GOOD rides in the States?))
(((Oh, and I went to the Strawberry Festival for the first time)))
There was a Monorail at one point! Who knew... just one...one.
Lue Gardens turned 50, and I visited for the first time?
Fort Matanzas National Monument? How 1740...
but pretty cool to see more of what I call "Real Florida"
Orange Blossom Cannonball.... The train set a brush fire while we were riding it!
(really)
The Florida State Capitol, in Tallahassee, Florida!
a minor goal of mine since moving here in 2009
Big Kahuna's Water Park: OR, "how I went down a waterslide with my ATM card in my pocket...and lost it." yaayyy!
Ugh, Dixie Landin' Family Theme Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana... Sooo not worth the drive from Orlando.... (you know, 700 miles......each way)
BUT, Blue Bayou Water Park was worth it.
Alabama's most southern Zoo!
I got to hold a baby Kangaroo... in a bag!
Cheetah Hunt, aww its not even Florida's newest coaster anymore....
Visited Sun Splash! for the first time
(and my first time in the south west part of FL.... I'm coming for you KEY WEST... now the only part of the state I haven't explored)
Dirty dirty... but +1... and most south-west-Floridian coaster?
King Richard's Park...thing
EPIC, Clingmans Dome!
The highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the highest point in Tennessee.
Might also be in the top 5 moments of 2012
Ehhhhh
Much better.
Dollywood's Splash Country is pretty fantastic
! New Year's resolution.... COMPLETE :D
Video via YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ8MYOKI85Q
Lets just pretend this trip didn't happen
(although Rattler was pretty great IMO as was the rest of Six Flags Fiesta Texas)
Steel Eel at Sea World San Antoine!... only one more US Morgan to go
(I've got my eye on you Quicksilver Express.....)
The Alamo, one of America's most misunderstood places?
Also one of the few places I can think of with a large piece of American History that has a
Ripley's Believe It or Not! and a Wax Museum across the street....ehh
Oh hey, and Deka saved me from the airport
(missed connection for the last flight of the night)
(and she took me to Six Flags Over Georgia)
And.... I ended up back there about a week later.
Because of the DCI Southeastern Championship MONOVENTURE to see Nolan do his thing
Stone Mountain, for some good old fashion Southern Racism
(had to wear my Massachusetts shirt cause, well, yeah..)
Oh hey, you're a way better roller coaster than the one that looks like you 10 photos ago...
Yaayyy Six Flags Great America!
Cha-Ching... But not really. Little Amerricka was worth the effort in visiting...
and gave me a reason to go to Madison, WI.. and its zoo as well.
Unlike this hellhole, Mt.O, with its one still AMAZING CCI, Cyclops.
Even WITH Hades360... I doubt I'll be back anytime soon...
Ok now... this is either reallllly cool, or really lame.
So I'm in Green Bay, WI with the new Zippin Pippin at Bay Beach while holding my shirt from the old Zippin Pippin in Memphis, TN at Libertyland
You'd better believe there were ducks in 2012! and yes, I held a few :D
Memory Lane was visited too, in the form of Pirate's Fun Park
in Salisbury Beach, MA
(or whats left of it)
Six Flags New England finally got something worthwhile, even if its used,
Goliath is lovely.
So I made a visit after skipping a chance to go in 2011
(and both 'new' rides at SFNE since my last visit were things I'd ridden in their former locations...)
My love
(the PARK not the coaster.....)
Magic Kingdom... this one photo had been planned out some nine months earlier.
((just so I could make the next 'photo of the day'....))
This
California Screamin' at California Adventure became my 700th roller coaster....
damn
800 seems so far away
Oh hey, and I rode the new for 2012 Manta at SeaWorld San Diego!
(and in turn visited all 3 SeaWorld parks in one season without even trying)
And this...thing... too. Green Lantern: First Flight. Although LEX was the real reason I was at Magic Mountain... It ended up being closed the first nine hours of the day... so I couldn't make it my photo.
Woo, Volusia County Fair! After noting getting a chance to go last year this is still one of the best county fairs in Florida
Some of the best news to come out of 2012?
2013's gonna be pretty fantastic in Orlando.
And its within walking distance of my house, don't hate
Oh right, and Test Track closed at Epcot and months and months later reopened as... Test Track.
And I never really seemed to care either way?
My second Massachusetts visit of the year also ended up being a trip down Memory Lane, although Edaville is still open, thankfully. Meeemmmoooooriieeessssssss
Ugh, and it snowed my last day on the way to the airport
Merry SHAMU Christmas
The End
Yup, so that's about it... in the end I visited Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. AL, LA, MS, and TX all being new states for me (also part of my New Year's resolution, along with visiting a new Zoo (CHECK), Bungee Jumping (CHECK!(sorry mom)), and riding a 'new for 2012' coaster (check check check) ended up riding 42 new for me coasters, 7 of them being new for 2012 additions and 3 being ones I'd ridden in their previous homes. And for what its worth... I visited 8 animal attractions / Zoo's, 8 new for me Water Parks, and went to 5 State Capitals, 3 new for me) :D
Oh, and if you wanna see the whole Project365 gallery its here via Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/canobiefan/sets/72157628690298479/
BRING ON 2013!
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