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Halloween decorations
near the entrance of the park
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In october the Six Flags Holland stays open late into the evenings
on fridays and saturdays and they have Halloween decorations and
special shows. We were planning to go to WB
Movie World in Germany the next day (see
trip report here) and decided it would be nice to go to Six
Flags Holland one more time too before the season ended.
This is going to be a rather short report since it's just about
an evening. We do go to Six Flags Holland a lot (got season passes)
and maybe I'll write another one next year (2002). When Goliath
(new coaster) opens or so.
When I got to the park I noticed the parking lot was filled and
they were even using some of the nearby fields (all owned by Six
Flags anyway) to park cars. I had never seen it this crowded before.
Since some people had already left for home, I managed to park near
the entrance anyway. We met in the park and while we were waiting
for some late arrivals (Bart and Ernst) we headed to the back of
the park because Renske wanted to go on the Tomahawk (pukeride).
Since most of us aren't that fond of puke rides (just give us the
shows, coasters and waterrides) and this is a rather extreme one,
we decided to wait in front of the Tomahawk, where we were soon
rejoined by Renske when the ride was stopped cause it had just proven
to be a real puke ride to someone. After Bart and Ernst finally
arrived we went to see a magic show (only runs during 'Halloween
season', which is the entire month of october in themeparks) in
the Crazy Horse Saloon. Not truly spectacular, but a nice for a
change (having seen all the regular shows in the park several times).
Worth seeing once anyway.
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Renske, Bart, Ngaw and
Jort in the logflume
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We got ourselves some fries to eat at the Old Mill (fast food),
near the logflume and then entered the queue for the logflume. It
was a fairly long queue, so when we finally got out of the ride
it was running late. Almost all of us got on the bumpercars next
and since it was almost closing time and there wasn't any queue
anyway, we got seconds and thirds (lot of bumping ;-). Some of us
decided this wasn't enough and squeezed in a round on nearby El
Toro before we headed for the park exit.
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La Grande Roue at night
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Because of extra rides we did at the end, we missed the show at
the end of the evening near the park entrance (we'd seen it before
anyway) and all we saw was a bit of the fireworks.
It wasn't a long stay in the park, but it always looks nice with
the Halloween theming and the lighting at night. We'll be back next
year.
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