This week we set out to answer two of your burning questions about the Voyage: Why did we start track work early? What are we doing to the track? Initially…
Read More »Out with the Old, In with the Smooth
Posts Tagged: off-season
Voyage track work, by the numbers
When we first started talking about adding a wooden roller coaster to our ride line up (this was waaaaay back in the early 1990s), we knew there was an important…
Read More »100 days
Just 100 days from today … we’ll be open for the season! At launch time (oops, lunchtime) today … … we captured Thunderbird’s first flight of the new year: As we…
Read More »Hard Hat Chronicles, episode XX
Question: When were fractions invented? Was it after Roman Numerals were already in place? … because both XIX.V and XIX I/II just look wrong. And so, we’ll move on and call…
Read More »No fair! We want to go, too!
Anyone else spending a considerable amount of time this week grumbling about the frigid temperatures? When you see it’s one degree outside, it’s hard to respond in a cheerful way….
Read More »What in the World?
What's going on – are we under attack? Yes, indeed. The attack of the Sand Blaster. (I was going to start quoting from Mr. Sandman, but I wouldn't want to…
Read More »When you eat for a living …
… you don't get a lot of sympathy when you work (and eat) long hours, day after day. Meet our Food & Beverage managers, Andrea and Tammy. Plus Jason, our…
Read More »Skating along to the finish line
As of today, April 4, we're exactly one month away from opening day. That's for Holiday World; Splashin' Safari's first day is May 10. Let's take a look at Hyena…
Read More »Words to live by
Measure twice. Cut once. When I first glanced at this, I thought someone had lost a contact. Been there!
Read More »Wake up, you two!
After wintering in one of our warehouses, it's almost time for Jack & Jill to rise and shine for another season! Seriously, I just want to reach out and tickle…
Read More »Six weeks to go!
Now that it's April, that countdown clock till opening is ticking louder and louder. Five weeks till Holiday World opens. Six weeks for Splashin' Safari. And Hyena Falls is pulling…
Read More »Fly away home
The swallows may come back to Capistrano … but for us, it’s the Eagles that come back to Holiday World. Maintenance Matt and Tom are moving one of our smiling…
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