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The
3rd annual Wonderland meetup
As told by one OLP fan
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Subject:
CC Meetup
#246 of 251 by (clumsyquebecoise) Tue 11 Jul '00 (05:55 PM)
Wonderland Meetup (July 10, 2000).
ClumsySkywalker and I got there at 10:30 am (I was positive
we were going to be late). Everybody was really nice about
waiting for us. I headed up to Stacy, and when I'd told her
who I was, and she'd seen CS coming up behind me, she gestured
to her and said "Oh you must be her mom!". Needless to say
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long after, someone was talking to Miro, and he didn't even
know it. This provoked Stacy to comment "That was so much
worse than my Mom comment!". We assembled for a few group
pictures, Stacy gave us all a CD single (courtesy of the band)
and two OLP posters (courtesy of Sony), and then in we went.
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meeting up inside the front gate, after we'd all gotten our
tickets, CS, Kruno, Miro, Shivon, and Ian decided that they'd
like to try Cliffhanger (a ride where the victims, er, passengers
are flipped around in their seats while being flipped around
as a whole on the mechanism. Not to mention getting soaked
- the streams of water underneath the ride made sure of that!).
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After
meeting up inside the front gate, after we'd all gotten our
tickets, CS, Kruno, Miro, Shivon, and Ian decided that they'd
like to try Cliffhanger (a ride where the victims, er, passengers
are flipped around in their seats while being flipped around
as a whole on the mechanism. Not to mention getting soaked
- the streams of water underneath the ride made sure of that!).
While they were waiting in line, most of the rest of us (what
a mouthful) chose to head over to the Spinovator, a ride quite
similar to the famed 'Teacups' at DisneyWorld/Land. The ride's
gravity pushed the person sitting on the inside of the basket
onto the person on the outside, and needless to say, I ended
up smushed against Lindz for most of the ride (sorry!).
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Once
we'd finished up on that one, we managed to stumble our way
over to the Cliffhanger, where our five brave friends were
just boarding. After witnessing the whole thing, we couldn't
help but chuckle a bit. ClumsySkywalker's first words to us
after returning from the ride were "I'm so happy I could hug
someone!" As much as we appreciated the offer, we turned it
down.
Then most of the group, save for Eugene, Katie, and I, went
over to the DragonFire, and spent some time on there. It wasn't
the smoothest of all rides, according to the passengers. It
'bit' Katie, and Raven's seat was wet. With that, we headed
around the park, where several other CCers decided to brave
the Drop Zone, Nightmares (a practically vertical Ferris wheel,
where the riders are, at certain points, lying straight on
their backs, and the Wild Beast (a wooden roller coaster with
some of the most turbulant twists there are - I know - I was
dragged on it, once).
Whilst in line for the latter, those on the ride (meaning
not me, Stacy, Kelly, Katie, or Eugene), were asked by a group
of kids what our nametags went. They told them that we were
all a band (with 20 people!) and proceeded to "perform" one
of "our songs", which was really 'Is Anybody Home?'. Those
who heard them obviously weren't too well acquainted with
OLP... they didn't catch on, and they believed it all!
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Lunch
had been scheduled for two in the afternoon, but after the
group came off the Wild Beast, everyone was so famished that
we decided to eat then, and wait around for a while for those
who were supposed to join us. Most people had pizza, yet I
bought the 'Spicy Fries' from one of the food joints... not
only were they not spicy, yet Miro was right - they tasted
like apples! Ah well, it was certainly not the best $7 I ever
spent, yet it was (practically) food nonetheless. We stuck
around at the tables for a while, swapping pictures from concerts,
stories, and signing each others books. Flu and Mike were
supposed to join us then, yet after a while we figured that
we would run into them eventually.
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after lunch we went over to the video booth. After a while
of debating about who wanted to go in, and what song we were
going to do, Kruno, Katie, Katie, Alex, Shivon, and I eventually
settled on 'Tubthumping' and each shelled out $10. Kruno took
lead vocal, Katie (olpsunflower) and Shivon were on guitar,
Alex chose keyboard and 'air sax', and Katie (olpphreak) and
I played tambourine. The end result was a lot of jumping,
dancing, and fun. The CC is destined to become a musical group,
one of these days.
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Once
the six of us had retrieved our own copies of our performance,
and the video staff had played it on the monitors outside
of the building for all to see, we headed over to the JetScream,
which several CCers went on (and were suspended upside down
for about twenty seconds before they flipped over), and a
few others went to see part of the Beatles tribute at the
theatre. I didn't see it all, but I noticed that the guy on
the keyboard actually looked like John Lennon... :)
CC Tradition stated that all those present must go on the
White Water Canyon ride, and we did our best to fit it in
before ClumsySkywalker (Alex) and I had to leave, at 4 pm,
but it just wasn't possible. |
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entire group came with us to the front gate, where we retrieved
our stuff from Stacy's car, and bid us farewell. Although
my conversations with CCers who had stayed until the end clued
me in to the fact that the remaining CCers got to go on the
water ride after all (some of them three consecutive times),
and used some of their fellow Congressors as shields so that
they didn't get wet. I wish I didn't have to leave so early!
All in all it was a fabulous time. Next year? I am so there!
~Kerry Ann (clumsyquebecoise) |
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