Day 13 - Mount Olympus Theme Park
Day 13 - Mount Olympus Theme Park
Lorna & Adrian Dade
Today started wet, so we played the arcade in the indoor park, and did some shopping!! After Mount Olympus we went to Knuckleheads where Lorna rode her 500th coaster.
LES FRANCAIS DE TOUL
Today, la pluie est au rendez-vous mais heureusement qu'hier le temps etait magnifiquement present pour les 2 parcs que nous avons cotoye. Des coasters qui deboulent a grande vitesse. Pour nous divertir, une petite course de karting fut realisee, Pascal ayant la voiture la plus rapide remporta la course, la famille Delphis 2eme et 3eme, Yannis 4eme du groupe car il avait une voiture hyper hyper lente, tant pis.....Pour le lunch de ce midi, un barbecue nous rechauffa vu que le temps gacha un peu le programme. Un dernier coaster indor + un film en 4D pour cloturer la rigolation, et nous voila reparti pour 4h de bus (pas grave, un superbe hotel nous attend). ps: Pascal et Yvon dorment deja (Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr....Pchhhhh).. Pensees au FC Toul..
Malcolm Marr
With the Gods declaring the heavens be opened and the park soaked from a thunderstorm I chose to spend the morning on the coach watching, rather appropriately, "Open Water" rather than get wet. After that we headed to Knuckleheads as it was indoors and having already ridden the coaster there two days ago I spent the time at the bar. The second day on the trip where I've managed to not ride anything; the trip needn't just be about riding coasters :D
David & Susan Ellis
Today was to feature an ERS on Hades and a tunnel walkthrough. The latter went ahead, which was a fantastic experience, especially with the 90 degree banked track, but Hades was down and was likely to be closed for a couple of days. We were disappointed that we never got to ride it...another reason for coming back. The rest of the day turned into a washout, with lightning and torrential rain. Finally our good luck runs out!
Andy Costin
Today we were due an ERS on Hades, but a thunderstorm, and the ride breaking down last night put paid to that. We had a tunnel walk-through of Hades first thing though. Because of heavy rain, we didn't do much, i managed 1 ride on Cyclops before rain (and lunch) stopped play. we left early, via Knuckleheads bar (which had a kiddie coaster) to drive to Bloomington. Weather finally catches us!
Steve Gzesh
Even with really crappy weather today, we managed to have a pretty good time at Mt. Olympus, thanks largely to the special tunnel walk-through we got to take. Quite spectacular, and cool to see all the items people lost on the ride (the dozens of cell phones in one pile were quite the sight!). We left early, right after lunch, and got to take in another kiddle coaster credit at Knuckleheads. Hey, a credit is a credit! Now onto Minnesota!
David Elvy
Today was a wash out. I could of done some more rides on the coasters, but it was not to be. Hades was still down, and will be for a few days. None of the other rides were running, due to the torrential rain, but I don't think you would want to ride in that rain anyway. We did have a tunnel tour, which gave us some interesting photos of Hades, the tunnel is quite spectacular. We had lunch earlier than planned, and then left, as it was still raining. We headed off to Knuckleheads, another kiddie coaster, but another credit.
Mark and Jenny
A trip highlight! The tunnel tour of Hades was amazing - and a great way to shelter from the rain. Watching the engineers manage to crash the Opa spinning mouse only adds to my concerns about the staff. Nice side-trip to Knuckleheads.
Chris and Lisa
Today was a bit of a wash out. Hades still broken but did tunnel walkthrough which was great. Went in the arcade for a bit then had lunch. Over to Knuckleheads for Kiddie coaster credit then back on the bus. Wet wet wet!!
Ole Bredesen-Vestby
Today started with a tunnel walk of Hades, just as the rain stared pouring down. After that it was planned an ERS on Hades, but it was still down after the problems yesterday evening. So after a couple of hours in the indoor section of the park, we had an early lunch, and headed over to an indoor park called Knucklehead to do another credit on a kiddiecoaster, before an early departure towards Minneapolis. So, not the best days in Wisconsin Dells, but all in all I did get all my credits, and had a good time. The bad weather had to come eventually, after all that sun earlier on the trip :-)
Cal Jones
A bit of a washout, weather-wise, but the Hades tunnel tour was very cool. It was a pity it rained so much but I'd expected it from the weather reports and had ridden all I wanted to yesterday. Mount Olympus is still a great park and I would like to return in the future.
Gordon Taylor
Rain rain go away... and all you horrid school kids too... Didn't do much riding, eating drinking and shouting at annoying kids mainly. Thanks for the tunnel walk. Actually out of my comfort zone for once. The thought of an eastern european kid who did not speak English sending a train out in error would not have surprised me. Fun being in there though. The banking is just WRONG! Kiddie coaster at K'heads was a laugh. Am I really turning into a coaster credit whore?
Andy Dewar
I enjoyed today's tunnel tour, then had a quiet day sitting round and playing arcade games at Mt Olympus. I would like to have ridden Hades more, so it's a shame it was shut. There was too much rain too.
Matthias Pies
Der heutige Tag begann mt Regen, Regen und nochmal Regen. Achja und ca 38 Schulbussen vollgestopft mit Kindern. Der abolute Horror. Die Tunnelfuehrung war das absolute Highlight des Tages.
Eirik Erstad & Jonas Aastroem
The day at Mt. Olympus washed away, unfortunately. The park gave us a very nice walkthrough of the Hades tunnel, though. How interesting to see the track from that point of view. Thanks for the tour and the early lunch. Too bad we can't do much with the weather and the screaming hordes...
Paul Orsmond
Sadly a day full of rain, thunder and lightning, this meant we didnt get our ERS but it was probably still broken from the day before when it broke down just before our evening ERS. We didn't stay long and left early after lunch. It would have been nice to stay longer as I would have liked to have checked out the water park, but hopefully I can come back in the future to explore the park more. Overall a nice park though.
Mats Hummel
Mt Olympus in welcomed us with rain but that will not stop a tour of Hades' tunnel, amazing that they let the whole group walk around in it. Good food today. Quick stop at Knuckleheads and the indoor terrain kiddie coaster.
Kim Varde Lassen
The day just drowned in rain. From start to finish. Highlight was the tunnel walk of Hades... fascinating! Fortunately we havn't had many rainy days... but it had to come, I guess.
Steve Fagin
With Hades shut and the rest of the rides stifled by the rain, the tunnel walk in Hades was the highlight of the day. Standing by the track, banked vertically against the tunnel wall, made for quite a spectacle. The park would do well to illuminate that part of the tunnel with strobes, if that would work, since I found that the banking was lost on me when riding through the darkness at high speed.
Dirk Lather
Blub - blub - Glucker. Wir sind heute fast abgesoffen, so stark hat es geregnet. Der tag begann trotz allem mit dem versprochenen Tunnel Rundgang, das war schon beeindruckend, so mit der Angst vor dem Zug durch den Tunnel zu latschen. Aber, die Bahn ist ja zum Glueck kaputt, wohl weil Mathias Pies die letzte vollstaendige Fahrt darin absolvierte. Der Rest viel sprichwoertlich ins Wasser, so das wir fruehzeitig aufbrachen, um als kleinen Ausgleich einen albernen kiddyCoaster zu counten. Ja, nennt mich Schlampe :-)
Christof Muehlan
I think Mt Olympus should take a decent picture of the cellphone cemetary in Hades' tunnel and put it up in the station. Far more impressive than those 'Please secure all lose items' signs.
Nina Kleppe
We started the day with a walk through Hades tunnel. That was cool. Fun to see all the stuff people lose from the train, from hats to keys and cellphones. No ERS because of the brakedown last night. Shame that it was raining so much. Nice lunch. Then we got to Knuckleheads to get an extra credit on a little kiddie. Now off to Mall of America.
Mette Doving
The day just rained away. Got a nice walkthru of the tunnel of Hades. Then it was just to hide from the rain and thunder until lunch time. Then off to Knuckleheads for a little tick. Now it's of to our last hotel and Mall of America. Maybe time for some shopping tonight?
Lee Bennett
The tunnel walk was good, interesting to see what is lost on or off a coaster in motion! Due to the rain the rides were working then not which wasn't too bad as I still had a chance for a dip in the wave pool!
Bye for now hope to do a little shopping tonight!
andycoasterboy
Tunnel tour today, enlightened what exactly happens through the madness when entering from the first drop and turnaround as it's over in a flash.
Seeing all of us scrambling to takes pictures was a bizarre site indeed.
Rain thwarted riding today as well as a million kids flooding into the waterpark area.
Chris Hull
A wet start to the day but the tunnel tour proved enjoyable. The phone graveyard and random scatterings of caps and other items proves what goes on in that tunnel! The rest of the day was a bit of a washout due to the rain but it didn't dampen my memories of a park with some of the most insane woodies around.
Paul Greenwood
Well, we had to have at least one day of rain on the trip and boy, did it rain. Jumping in the swimming pool would have been dryer! The tour of the Hades tunnel was incredible and really interesting to see where the track actually goes. And the collection of baseball caps, smashed cell phones and other lost belongings lying below the track was quite an eye-opener... The tunnel tour more than made up for the lack of riding due to the rain
Darren and Mary
The park became a giant water park. Darren's highlight of the day was the walk through of the tunnel on Hades. He touched the rails took lots and lots of photo's as did all who did the walk through - Darren joined the "black hand gang". The rain caused a change to plans we went to ride a small coaster at knuckleheads to ride minor mike. Another amazing day for Darren
Owen & Alan Rees
Rain, Thunder, rain, thunder, lightning. Walk the the half flooded tunnel. The spinning mouse hardly span, just slowly turned around.
