Fair time!
Sunday, August 20th, 2006 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evila_elfBeen meaning to post this for a few days...
On Friday, I got up early to go to the fair with my brother. I felt like a 12 year old that was being humored. It has been several years since I have gotten to go to the fair with anyone, aside from my dad, and he gets dizzy, so we can't go on rides.
And this looks quite long, so the rest is under a cut--
We bought all day wristbands, so we can ride on as many rides as we want to and waited for 15 minutes until 11, which is when the rides started up. Well, we made the mistake of going on the zipper for the first ride. Jeff was freaking out and cussing. I was laughing and screaming. I love taking people on that ride *evil laugh*
Then we went on...I dunno what the name was, but it was one that spins around and then turns sideways and upsidedown, still spinning. Looks kinda like this ride called The Octopus. Now. I can handle rides that flip you upside down, but spinning and staying upsidedown???? eep! I was so close to getting sick. Had to take deep breaths between the whimpers.
After that, we walked for a bit while I coughed and tried to calm down. Tornado was next. 4 seats in a square, with a disk between you that you can use to spin the cart around with in addition to the ride itself. Got spinning pretty fast that I couldn't tell if the ride had started or not. That was actually one of the funnest ones.
Next we went on the Scrambler. Notable thing about that ride: The person sitting on the outside of the 2 seater gets squished by the person sitting on the inside because of the pull. I had a major gigglefit on that ride and I almost started gagging. Jeff became worried--for himself, mind.
Then we paused for a drink and I got an order of curley fries. Huuuge stack of them, tons of grease--yuuum lol. The pop was excellent...a buck for a can! No watered down crap for 2 bucks :D
We went on a ride that looks like a glider, and you lay on your stomach. Jeff enjoyed that one and made shooting noises the whole time (he is 15 years older than me lol)
Jeff wanted to go on the gravatron--which spins so fast you are pressed against the wall and it feels like you are going sideways. Then 1001 something-that-was-a-take-on-Nights. Rocked back and forth and got quite high.
Went on the Zipper again (Jeff wondered why the Hell he was going again), the glider, Tornado, Goldola (something like that), like a huge ferris wheel that 8 people can sit in in a circle.
I...think that was it for the rides. We were on a time limit because I had to be at work at 2. We stopped for more food. I got an Elephant Ear and another pop. Jeff got this hot dog thing, and we sat for a bit before we left.
Was quite a fun time :)
But by the time I got to work, I was getting a bit irritable and trying to fend off a headache. And I wanted to murder some kids that were screeching over who got to doodle on this scratch paper!! Like...yelling...loud. Then they ran off, chasing each other. Lucky they did.
After shelving most of my cart and still feeling grumpy and whipped out, I took vacation time and went home 1.5 hours early, making a stop for a chocolate milkshake--damn good!!--on the way home.
Yesterday, I was stiff. I think it was that upsidedown spinning one that did me in. Also, the palms of my hands, underneath my thumbs, hurt real bad. Still do today o.O Kinda annoying.
On Friday, I got up early to go to the fair with my brother. I felt like a 12 year old that was being humored. It has been several years since I have gotten to go to the fair with anyone, aside from my dad, and he gets dizzy, so we can't go on rides.
And this looks quite long, so the rest is under a cut--
We bought all day wristbands, so we can ride on as many rides as we want to and waited for 15 minutes until 11, which is when the rides started up. Well, we made the mistake of going on the zipper for the first ride. Jeff was freaking out and cussing. I was laughing and screaming. I love taking people on that ride *evil laugh*
Then we went on...I dunno what the name was, but it was one that spins around and then turns sideways and upsidedown, still spinning. Looks kinda like this ride called The Octopus. Now. I can handle rides that flip you upside down, but spinning and staying upsidedown???? eep! I was so close to getting sick. Had to take deep breaths between the whimpers.
After that, we walked for a bit while I coughed and tried to calm down. Tornado was next. 4 seats in a square, with a disk between you that you can use to spin the cart around with in addition to the ride itself. Got spinning pretty fast that I couldn't tell if the ride had started or not. That was actually one of the funnest ones.
Next we went on the Scrambler. Notable thing about that ride: The person sitting on the outside of the 2 seater gets squished by the person sitting on the inside because of the pull. I had a major gigglefit on that ride and I almost started gagging. Jeff became worried--for himself, mind.
Then we paused for a drink and I got an order of curley fries. Huuuge stack of them, tons of grease--yuuum lol. The pop was excellent...a buck for a can! No watered down crap for 2 bucks :D
We went on a ride that looks like a glider, and you lay on your stomach. Jeff enjoyed that one and made shooting noises the whole time (he is 15 years older than me lol)
Jeff wanted to go on the gravatron--which spins so fast you are pressed against the wall and it feels like you are going sideways. Then 1001 something-that-was-a-take-on-Nights. Rocked back and forth and got quite high.
Went on the Zipper again (Jeff wondered why the Hell he was going again), the glider, Tornado, Goldola (something like that), like a huge ferris wheel that 8 people can sit in in a circle.
I...think that was it for the rides. We were on a time limit because I had to be at work at 2. We stopped for more food. I got an Elephant Ear and another pop. Jeff got this hot dog thing, and we sat for a bit before we left.
Was quite a fun time :)
But by the time I got to work, I was getting a bit irritable and trying to fend off a headache. And I wanted to murder some kids that were screeching over who got to doodle on this scratch paper!! Like...yelling...loud. Then they ran off, chasing each other. Lucky they did.
After shelving most of my cart and still feeling grumpy and whipped out, I took vacation time and went home 1.5 hours early, making a stop for a chocolate milkshake--damn good!!--on the way home.
Yesterday, I was stiff. I think it was that upsidedown spinning one that did me in. Also, the palms of my hands, underneath my thumbs, hurt real bad. Still do today o.O Kinda annoying.
