June 20th, 2001 (11-1am)

At 10:50pm, my friend and I found two of our other friends and headed toward the employee entrance. At 11:00pm, we ran toward Mama Ilardo's, where free soda and pizza were being served. Two sodas and three slices of pizza later, we headed over to the Lightning Racer. (the rides were being run by our supervisors) We waited about 15 minutes for a middle car on lightning. I thought to myself, "Gee, I just waited longer during this party than I did this afternoon!!". Luckily... that would all change!

We checked out the games that were running for us to play (free, of course). We all played until we had each won a prize (a bar of Hershey chocolate). We headed up to Chaos (one of the few decent flat-rides of the park) and had a nice ride. Mouse had no line, so we hit that. It was raining, although not hard, but that made the ride that much better than usual. One of my friends, who had not ridden this ride ever, kept shouting "Why the hell did I get on this!".

Next, we all headed down for some FREE soft icecream. After a decent sized vanilla cone was in my belly, it was back to Mama Ilardo's for another slice of pizza and a coke. We took a quick bathroom break before heading to the Lightning Racer. It was now 12:15am.

We ran up the queue and onto Thunder. After a great night ride (and a victory!) we realized that nobody was in line for our rows! Re-ride!!

Another great ride, another victory and, surprise, another re-ride! We ended up staying on Lightning Racer for the rest of the night until the fun came to an end at 1:00am. (I think we got about 7-8 consecutive rides).

The employee party was a BLAST! Free food, free drink, and (after the initial crowd died down) LOTS of re-rides on a great coaster. I wish Wildcat would've been open, but oh well... I can't wait until July's party!