Heavy lifting

Thursday was the first day for heavy lifting as crews moved steel into place at the Pilgrims Plunge construction site. As far as “going vertical,” it’s only a few feet…

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An early Valentine’s gift

How many people receive emails from their boss with this message: Ain't they pretty? And this attached: Those big blue tanks are the filters for Pilgrims Plunge. And Will is…

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Hoogste?

Whenever we come across an article about us that's not written in English, it seems at least one or two words really jump out, almost in a threatening way. In…

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A sunny day

Temps are expected to drop and drop this week, so the construction crew is making the most of the toasty weather today. (Was that snow I just saw?) Work continues…

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New year, new construction

The construction crews were back on site today getting the Pilgrims Plunge area ready for the delivery of the first two "containers" this week. Steve told us this during our…

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Who measures by “yards”?

Concrete people, that's who. When Mike mentioned in our last Directors Meeting that the first Pilgrims Plunge tower foundation required 240 yards of concrete, only a few of us nodded…

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Let’s just hope …

…this isn't the company in charge of theming our new ride. Poor Mike. I asked him how construction is going. Here's his silent reply:  

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Favorite quote from the week

Park people really are a lot of fun. We've laughed all week. Learned a lot, too, but had a lot of fun. I hope my week of tweets from Orlando…

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A new high

In all my years as the publicity-getter for Holiday World, never did I dream we'd be in Elevator World. That is, never did I dream there even was a magazine…

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Someone snapped in the meeting

Can you call photos "snapshots" anymore? Seems old-fashioned. Obsolete even. But I still like to say I snapped some pictures, so unless instructed otherwise by the lexicon police, we shall…

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Das Boot

That's a little (very little) German for you to start off your weekend with some multi-culturalism. Das Boot ("the boat") is being constructed in Germany. Five "Boots," actually. I'm not…

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