(click to enlarge)		man & marine world - off to Six Flags Marine World to get my season pass, try the rides, and bake in the sun.
		1 Adds have been hyping the new coaster Zonga! for a little while now, but as you can see from this photo, it's not yet finished. Or, if it is, it's a much different coaster than any of us were expecting.
		2 More Zonga! Oh, and a quick note to those keeping score at home. I haven't been to Six Flags Marine World since just after it moved up to Vallejo. It was not a Six Flags then and didn't have any coasters. It's changed quite a bit.
		3 This is actually printed on the front steps of my apartment... no, just kidding. Here I am taking shelter in the blazing sun in the middle of an 80 degree day, waiting for college kids to do waterski tricks for my amusement.
		4 Sun got to be too much as I waited, so I went and hid in the shade. Took pictures of contrails (or entrails?) and trees.
		5 I just liked the color contrasts, okay?!?
		6 That little Goldilock's food stand in the bottom left corner served pastries and asian food... weird.
		7 That coaster in the background looks similarly unfinished like the Zonga! but it's meant to be that way.
		8 A little girl and her cotton candy. How sweet. The candy I mean.
		9 (Lonely) Bird on a Wire.
		10 Popcorn, bottle water and older men. Ah, it's a dream come true.
		11 Looks pretty steep, hope I don't trip. Which reminds me of attending a UCONN football game somewhere around 1983 and having this old man come stumbling down a couple rows and taking me clear off my bench seat.
		12 Applying eyeliner at the amusement park. Because we all know by now that amusement parks are good places for young girls to pick up on old men.
		13 Frozen coffee, Hawaiian style.
		14 The stars of the show. No, just a couple geese.
		15 The water ride, before the splash...
		16 ..after the splash.
		17 Stairway to heaven... or at least the rollercoaster track.
		18 I remember when we were moving away from Cromwell, CT as a kid, we stayed one night in this suites hotel on the edge of town and it was a two story room with a spiral staircase to the loft area with the beds. Soooo cool!
		19 This loop de loop is so top secret, it's behind a fence.
		20 We interrupt this photolog for a word from our sponsor... ICEE!
		21 Some ride or a weird seige device ready to be shipped to Baghdad. Maybe a modern Trojan Horse?
		22 Marine World has a butterfly habitat where you can walk around and have butterflies land on you. They didn't land on me, but I took pictures of them anyways.
		23 That's not a butterfly, rather it's a pygmy goat that's adapted over time to look like a butterfly in order to avaid it's natural predator, the pgymy lion.
		24 If I was cool, I could tell you the name of this flower/plant. But I'm not. Speaking of cool, does anyone else think I've "jumped the shark" already with this photolog?
		25 The OTHER side of amusement parks. The seedier side, where adults not riding the rides sit around and discuss current events and hold hostage big stuffed animals.
		26 Swings. Enough said.
		27 If you stare into the street lights for long enough, you get a little dizzy and forget where you parked your car. Wait, you forget where you parked your car whatever you do. Itchy 7, right?
		28 It's sunset over the Serenghetti (or is that the Spaghetti?) and all the animals go off to sleep and the people go off to drink & watch television. Evolution!
		29 There's a old coaster (from Paramount's Great America I think) sitting in the parking lot here at Marine World. So of course I had to take some photos.
		30 And here's where we end this extended entry. Remember folks, on the rollercoaster of life, remember that if you're pregnant or have back injuries, you're not allowed to have fun.