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By all means, the Family Feud skillet is my favorite in the park.  It's always good, and it's always been good.  I always want to tell the people in line in front of me that it's so much better than the Harvest skillet.

Thanks for the great advice, Copper.  They were running half tours in the morning, and they didn't think lantern tours would be operating.  I never checked back to see if they changed their minds, but I will be doing this some time this summer.

We were there on Day Three.  There were no problems with parking at 8:30.  We had heard nightmares from people on the strip that it would take hours to park and there was a four hour wait for some rides.  Now, when has that ever been realistic???  On the third day, they were expecting 13,000, but came a couple of thousand short.  The rides were fully open (except the Waterboggan) and fully staffed.

The Giant Swing has some improvements.  In the queue, the chicken wire separating the line from the Lost River has been replaced with stronger wire - much better.  Then, where the graffiti was a problem in the skinny part of the line, the upper half of the wall has been removed.  Now you can see the ride area before you get on the ride, and graffiti should be less tempting.  All good.

In the Flooded Mine, all the characters have had makeovers (though they look to have paper mache heads or something), and I noticed at least three guards have been added to the prisoner crew, along with new sounds.  There's always a lot of stuff happening in there, so we'll have to keep looking for the new stuff.  The song seemed more prominent, as well.  Other upgrades have already been mentioned.

Geyser Gulch has new targets for the water cannons and at least one new pad for the kiddie fountains.

Midtown looks great and has an assorment of shops that will appeal to a more relaxed crowd.  It's the first time I've seen such continuity there.

Fire-in-the-Hole seemed a little lighter during the first part.  They now make you stow your loose items like the other coasters.  I don't think much was done on the inside though - hard to look when you're calming a four-year-old.

Look how many people it took to take Sam's place!

The new blog is up and running - http://www.silverdollarcityblog.com/ - but it's not the same without Sam.  I feel like I don't belong there since it's now a "Mom's Blog", but the jury's still out.

Awesome.

Great info as usual; I'm really interested in the history stuff.

Who's idea was the rising table in the Mine restaurant?  This is classic.

I remember taking my in-laws and brother-in-law - our first trip with them to SDC.  We ate in the Mine.  My wife, brother-in-law, and I sat at another table while my parents and her parents sat at the rising table.  My parents had seen it before, but her parents were clueless.  The thing got about as high as it could before my mother-in-law finally says, "I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm Alice in Wonderland!"

My brother-in-law, who also didn't know about the table, got to be in on the joke.  I thought he was going to wet his pants before somebody finally noticed the table was chin-level.

That's what I was wondering.  Is the cave flooded?

If you get a half tour, where do you go out?  Back up the steps?

And tell me more about the Mammoth Room.  Is this something I haven't seen?

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'Fraid out of all the years I've been visiting, I don't remember any of the puppet shows.  Weird!

Anyway, as for the newest show in the Opera House - Headin' West - does anybody else get that the order of the scenes is wrong?  Why do they go to the Rocky Mts., and then to the Great Plains on their way to the West Coast?

I wonder if the day before Easter will be busy or light.  They may be wondering the same thing.

How early do I have to get there to reserve a lantern tour on Saturday?

Can you give some numbers?  Is 15,000 a bbbuuusssyyy day, a busy day, an average day, or a light day?

Any hints on the easiest way to get around?

Ever wanted to get the boat to completely flip over and land upright on the Waterboggan?

Do you think the refreshments at the Echo Hollow show will be better, considering the proximity of the culinary bldg.?