As part of our company’s benefits package – just kidding – our landlord holds a little fun day for the office building.  This year Kona Ice supplied tropical shaved ice which was very refreshing and delicious.  The music on their website gives you the soundtrack for the afternoon.

Korey, Mike, Larry, Chad, Jonathan, Dave, Anthony

This year they had the privilege of supplying more goodies as our team has temporarily grown to seven to handle the many projects on our plate.  Our two new team members are drafting guru Dave Jewell and engineering intern Jonathan Wocher from Ohio State’s Theme Park Engineering Group.  We are thrilled to have them on board as there are reams of drawings to produce for the various jobs.

This next year is certainly going to be a banner year for The Gravity Group & Gravitykraft with many projects in addition to the underway Voyage Timberliner installation.  The first announced ride is the peppy smaller wooden coaster at Quassy Amusement Park in Connecticut. The second coaster on which we are working is the historic recreation of the Zippin Pippin from Memphis headed to Green Bay’s Bay Beach Amusement Park.  Also, you can’t forget about the awesome China racing / dueling coaster.  For these last two rides we are working with Martin & Vleminckx to provide the engineering.

So it is nice to step out of the office churning with drawings for a quick spell where the only stress you have is choosing what flavor of shaved ice sounds the best.  Of course even this task is not as easy as it should be; there were over 50 flavors!

…nice