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Jun. 9th, 2002
Knoebels trip
Jun. 9th, 2002 08:43 pmThat last entry, well, when I was leaving and saying good-bye to people at Knoebels, Tim was like "Deanna's going to write like seven pages about this weekend," and I said "nah, I'll just write 'went to Knoebels, rode the Flyer, it was cool, came home'..." and people were like "Oh, don't forget DDR..."
Anyway... uhh... this entry will probably be long, although maybe interesting if you are thinking of going to Knoebels, and there's some DDR in it too. I'll LJ-cut semi-appropriately. I probably have events out of order but I'm braindumping.
Friday evening
We decided to go up 28 to 80 to cut across the state. I drove to Fuddrucker's first for dinner, and then for the first half of the trip or so. Except for that annoying non-passing-zone part of 28 it was pretty good. I guess I drove all the way to the second rest stop on 80, where we ran into Mike and Tal and Carl, who had apparently passed us twice on the way. Whee. Then we drove some more, getting to Knoebels around 11:30pm, finding our campsite purely by accident. People helped us set up a tent and we inflated the air mattress and talked for a little while and went to sleep.
Saturday morning
Tents get REALLY FREAKING HOT if you're in the sun, so I was woken up by the heat at 7:30 or 8am. Camp showers are yucky, but not too horrible, and after getting up we had bagels and I met some of the other people who were in our group... except I still don't think I understand who they all were.
( uhh.. lj-cut while I try to figure that part out )
Saturday in the Park with George (or non-Georges as the case may be)
After meeting lots of people we walked over to the park and alternately bought ride tickets or ride-all-day bracelets. The Philly crew opted mostly for bracelets but the rest of us plus Tim and Laurie opted for ride tickets. Bracelets took a long time to buy but tickets were quick, so I asked, of course, where the DDR machine was, and while waiting for bracelets, I played some DDR with Carl. It was a 3rd mix Asian machine, which is the lamest of the 3rd mixes, but is better than Cedar Point's 1st mix machine, at least.
One thing that is way cool about Knoebels is that there is free admission to the park, and free parking, and free entertainment, and all this other stuff... so you have to pay to ride rides, and to get food, and to stay on the campgrounds, but really, it is really cheap compared to a lot of other places. Food was a lot cheaper than many amusement parks that I've been to, and rides were definitely relatively cheap - I spent about 13 bucks on rides, and maybe 5 bucks on DDR. It is really cool... despite this, the park isn't all that crowded, I guess because it's sort of out of the way in the middle of nowhere. But it is cool anyway.
So, we went on rides and did fun stuff like DDR and mini golf.
( Rides, fun stuff, more DDR, birch beer, mini golf, etc. )
Saturday night
We had a campfire and sat around telling silly stories about people. Campfires are neat and it was cool to toast marshmallows and eat snacks and sit around a fire, although I felt a little bad because I have trouble with large groups of people I don't know well. Tim told a lot of boy scout stories involving him playing pranks on Andy. After a while the rest of us Pittsburgh-types tried to get into the storytelling swing of things, but I don't think our stories went over well except with each other. There were some people up the hill loudly and probably drunkenly playing some card game which sounded like bridge.
Eventually we went to sleep around midnight.
Sunday
Got up. Showered. Changed. Ate bagels. Packed up our stuff; took down the tents; shoved stuff in the car; said goodbye to people; got on the road. I drove halfway - this time I noticed Mike passing me somewhere along 80, and I did try to keep up for a bit but Eli's car is unhappy when you go faster than 72 or so.
We stopped in DuBois for lunch around 1:30pm at HOSS'S!! I love Hoss's... it is so cool... the people are always so nice and friendly and the salad bar rocks and mmm Hoss's. I was really happy to get to stop there, and we had good food and I told lots of stories about Kiltie expeditions that all ended in Hoss's. After that Eli and I swapped driving and I fell asleep for most of the rest of the ride home (at least I didn't fall asleep at the wheel).
Now I am home, and have been catching up on computer stuff. Wish I could catch Roman online to try to start restoring my computer and backing it up and all...
Anyway... uhh... this entry will probably be long, although maybe interesting if you are thinking of going to Knoebels, and there's some DDR in it too. I'll LJ-cut semi-appropriately. I probably have events out of order but I'm braindumping.
Friday evening
We decided to go up 28 to 80 to cut across the state. I drove to Fuddrucker's first for dinner, and then for the first half of the trip or so. Except for that annoying non-passing-zone part of 28 it was pretty good. I guess I drove all the way to the second rest stop on 80, where we ran into Mike and Tal and Carl, who had apparently passed us twice on the way. Whee. Then we drove some more, getting to Knoebels around 11:30pm, finding our campsite purely by accident. People helped us set up a tent and we inflated the air mattress and talked for a little while and went to sleep.
Saturday morning
Tents get REALLY FREAKING HOT if you're in the sun, so I was woken up by the heat at 7:30 or 8am. Camp showers are yucky, but not too horrible, and after getting up we had bagels and I met some of the other people who were in our group... except I still don't think I understand who they all were.
( uhh.. lj-cut while I try to figure that part out )
Saturday in the Park with George (or non-Georges as the case may be)
After meeting lots of people we walked over to the park and alternately bought ride tickets or ride-all-day bracelets. The Philly crew opted mostly for bracelets but the rest of us plus Tim and Laurie opted for ride tickets. Bracelets took a long time to buy but tickets were quick, so I asked, of course, where the DDR machine was, and while waiting for bracelets, I played some DDR with Carl. It was a 3rd mix Asian machine, which is the lamest of the 3rd mixes, but is better than Cedar Point's 1st mix machine, at least.
One thing that is way cool about Knoebels is that there is free admission to the park, and free parking, and free entertainment, and all this other stuff... so you have to pay to ride rides, and to get food, and to stay on the campgrounds, but really, it is really cheap compared to a lot of other places. Food was a lot cheaper than many amusement parks that I've been to, and rides were definitely relatively cheap - I spent about 13 bucks on rides, and maybe 5 bucks on DDR. It is really cool... despite this, the park isn't all that crowded, I guess because it's sort of out of the way in the middle of nowhere. But it is cool anyway.
So, we went on rides and did fun stuff like DDR and mini golf.
( Rides, fun stuff, more DDR, birch beer, mini golf, etc. )
Saturday night
We had a campfire and sat around telling silly stories about people. Campfires are neat and it was cool to toast marshmallows and eat snacks and sit around a fire, although I felt a little bad because I have trouble with large groups of people I don't know well. Tim told a lot of boy scout stories involving him playing pranks on Andy. After a while the rest of us Pittsburgh-types tried to get into the storytelling swing of things, but I don't think our stories went over well except with each other. There were some people up the hill loudly and probably drunkenly playing some card game which sounded like bridge.
Eventually we went to sleep around midnight.
Sunday
Got up. Showered. Changed. Ate bagels. Packed up our stuff; took down the tents; shoved stuff in the car; said goodbye to people; got on the road. I drove halfway - this time I noticed Mike passing me somewhere along 80, and I did try to keep up for a bit but Eli's car is unhappy when you go faster than 72 or so.
We stopped in DuBois for lunch around 1:30pm at HOSS'S!! I love Hoss's... it is so cool... the people are always so nice and friendly and the salad bar rocks and mmm Hoss's. I was really happy to get to stop there, and we had good food and I told lots of stories about Kiltie expeditions that all ended in Hoss's. After that Eli and I swapped driving and I fell asleep for most of the rest of the ride home (at least I didn't fall asleep at the wheel).
Now I am home, and have been catching up on computer stuff. Wish I could catch Roman online to try to start restoring my computer and backing it up and all...
