^ LOL Thanks History. :-)
Nice edits and changes to your posts Swoosh.
I stand by what I said earlier, but not my tone and attitude. I apologize for responding in the manner that I did. I was out of line in how I put a few of those things, and for that I'm sorry.
As far as your changes in your posts from stations to control panels, while there are a small handful of rides that have an enclosed operators booth, even still the vast majority of them are open air and outdoors, and out with the ride attendants. Very few have AC, and it still wouldn't cover the vast majority of the workers nor any of the guests.
I'm happy to hear they added a lot of landscaping. They needed it. There were a couple of places that were nice, but much of the park was in need of it. Good that they addressed that.
RE: my comment about not seeing things that are right in front of you- I phrased that very poorly. It was not meant rudely, but it sure sounded like it. Sorry. What I meant was that when you have worked at a job, you will see, note, and observe things that other people who have not worked that will not. As teachers you and I can walk into someone's classroom and probably within about 5 minutes- even without the students there- I'll have a good idea of if that teacher is organized, has good classroom management, and how they relate to their students just by things I observe around the classroom, their desk and their lesson plans. Things that a student, parent, or other adult would never notice, but because of our experiences we do.
The same is true at a park. There are going to be things right in front of you that, if you've never worked at a park, you won't notice. Even if you've visited hundreds of parks, been on a thousand coasters and heard from a bunch of workers. If you've never done it, you just won't notice certain things. That's not a slam, just simple fact. But I expressed that very badly.