08/05/06 - Trip to Canobie with Mel (her first trip!), Muffie, and the CanobieFan himself: James. Pics of Mo too.

Mel drives from Worcester

Hey look! We found 95 North!

Radio towers

More radio towers

One of those neat changing billboards with a Canobie ad

The car hit a bump right as I took this so I missed a big chunk of the sign

I caught it as we drove by

James was in Emo mode

Mel tied James' tie for him

Why do all girls know how to tie ties?

James adjusts his tie

There you go

Mel's having fun already

Whoops, still on indoors camera settings. Ah well

Haha, why would a real estate company have a space shuttle on their sign!?

"Stop taking pictures of me while I'm driving!"

James in the rear view mirror

It's a tarp!

We made it!

Information on the Yankee Cannonball

Mel's freaked out

James looks like he's having fun

Cannonball line

Muffie's just setting herself up for a sunburn

An overexposed shot of the Cannonball lift hill

The ride op

There goes one train

James hates this pictures

There go some more people!

Mel thinks she's cool with these shades

James is excited!!

It's almost the top of the lift hill!!

Mel is considerably less... crazy

Time to start recording video

James taking some sneaky shots of the Canobie paint shop

Normally he just puts his arm and camera through a small gap and takes pictutres blindly...

Boston Teaparty wave

Ahhh, everybody run away!

I was right in the wave zone when I took these pictures, so I had to shoot and run

Mel, Muffie, and James wait in the

Still not their turn

Can you tell it's a wave?

Going up the lift hill! James wanted to sit in the front so he sat with two random girls

James with the random girls

Please face forward

Whoops, mistimed the shot. I got James and Muffie though!

Wave!

Now they're all wet

Muffie and Mel had fun!

Mel has never been on the Turkish Twist..

Mel's in for a surprise...

"Do you puke on these things?" "I don't know" "...*edges away*"

It's like that scene in Contact!

Enter the matrix..

James holds his face on

Muffie and Rob in line for the Corkscrew

James pulls a somewhat reluctant rob up the ramp

A train going by

Uhoh, I've been spotted

Rob shows off the "skunk" ?

Time to keep moving

Another train goes by

Getting the settings just right is tricky

Hey, I was bored

Mel is not amused

"OMG!"

Mel points to her ear?

Cool cool glasses

Hi Mel!

Mer???

The caterpillar in action

Look at it go

Skater, one of the new rides at Canobie

I've always wanted to ride a giant skateboard

Not really though

Look at it go

Mel waits in line for the Psychodrome

She doesn't know what's she's in for

James on the caterpillar

Rob peeks over the top of the seat

James took a video of me!

James... screaming!

I dont' think he's really that scared

Mel confronts the superflash once again

"You can't out-camp-counselor me!" says Mel

Rob left to go hang out with his other friends

That's not the LM!

This guy had sad pants

James waiting for Starblaster to start

Hi guys!

Waiting for the launch..

Getting closer..

Taken on the way down. Looked like fun!

Oldies was there for some reason

Giving away stuff..

There was a lot of smoke coming out of this building

But it was supposed to have smoke come out of it

This guy had "Park Photographer" on his shirt so I took his pictures and said "Now you're the Park Photographee!!"

That guy was there for hours...

The big rotating hamburger

A new rotating thing.. Betty Boop!

The records from Rockin' Rider!

Mel imitates Betty Boop

Good job Mel

Frisbee sounds interesting

James stands where the Rockin' Rider's station used to be.

Getting on the train

Now we're moving

James told me to stop taking pictures of him..

Mel's like "Don't you point that thing at me, don't you point that thing at me"

James is sick of pictures

"Oh god!"

Muffie doesn't care

"The thing about trains is.."

Never!!

Parts of Canobie's new ride: Frisbee

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

Frisbee parts

James takes pictures of the disassembled Frisbee for CanobieFan.com

Slightly longer exposure to blur the ground

The stupid train

At one point we hit warp speed

Mel's background was less interesting

Hey look! It's Canobie Lake!

Some guys on the lake

Taken from James' car in the parking lot... do you see him?

Superflash!! Ahh!!

My favorite scale

I've never actually used it

The log flume splashes down

We forgot to ride this! Sorry Mel!

Looks like they had fun

Mel plays some skiball

Go Mel go

Win a prize!

Last one!

Mel was pretty good!

"What?"

This guy's cheating!

I forget what she got on this one

Skiball!

Blurry skiball

You can barely see the ball

So that's how these things work, Sketch is inside frantically drawing!

A creepy robot man

Outside the Mine of Lost Souls

This guy was driving a bathtub

I don't think he's actually a professor

Mel thinks the camera is way to close

Professor Uncanny takes a break to watch a different show

Mel on the phone

Ride controls

Ride ops

Some stupid show

A hilarious robot dude in the mine

A coffin

We're in egypt now?

I'm so afraid

We got snakes on a train!!

Want a head?

Super macro mode of Mel's eye

I found Nemo!

Me and Mel pose in front of the Canobie map

Mel somehow went from standing to falling over with no apparent cause

The worker at the exit

Just outside the gates

The moon

Some seagulls

A seagull

Another seagull

Muffie and Mel on the way back

Rob's excited for the Car Ride

Muffie meets the superflash

Mo looks bored with his life

Hi Mo!

He's like a carpet!

Mel on the phone

"What do you want??"

Bailey at her computer

Mo with his new crown!

Mo wants to get down now

No escape!

"I'm sick of this game"

Pretty pretty Mo

The Boston Teaparty. I'm not sure what's up with that blob in the middle

Most of the Yankee Cannonball

One of the loops in the Canobie Corkscrew

The Skater sign

Starblaster!