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MY GOD.
I just got home from the amusement park, called "Playland" here. Went to the fair too, but Playland was the main attraction obviously. Since I just recently went there and rode on practically every scary ride (except the ones you need to pay extra, we are cheap and those FREAK ME OUT EVEN MORE...)
I figure to give the day a ranking...and well, summarize the day in this blog post obviously.
First I absolutely goddamn hate the food there, I'm sure others will enjoy it but my stomach doesn't seem to like fried butter or fried mars bars or fried batter or fried sugary doughnuts. I think the fact that I don't eat a lot of pure fat whatsoever made my stomach not used to it so I get nauseated whenever I eat anything remotely fat, which is actually good because that will discourage me from eating fast food, but when you go to a place that ONLY has fast food that really kills the stomach.
We ate Dim Sum first. which was pretty good. After that we got the day pass, a stamp to indicate we can ride ANYTHING we want for the entire day, and our very first ride was a ride I NEVER RODE ON BEFORE...called "Hell's Gate".
Sound scary already? I was actually in a way disappointed. My best friend who is terrified of roller coasters and won't ride on them with me went on Hell's Gate before, and told me about it. I had at that point completely forgotten what she told me though, but I knew water was supposed to spray into you as you're flipped upside down constantly like a whiplash-ly swing. WE NEVER GOT WET. So in that sense I was disappointed, it was Summer--not particularly hot though, but I wanted to get wet and that didn't happen.
Anyway the ride was TERRIFYING. When you watch it happen it looks tame, BUT BEING FLIPPED AROUND LIKE THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING! I also smashed my neck when we got super-flipped super-fast and I really dislike the ride not only because it was TERRIFYING but it gave me a booboo. :C It also made the next ride a lot worse.
Afterwards I felt somewhat dizzy, but decided to go on one of my favourite rides: the Musical Express. This ride is not that scary, hell it's not scary at all but I love the adrenaline you get from the UTTER SPEED. It's this crazy insane fast ride that whips you through in a circle with music, the faster the music the faster the ride. Sadly the music is usually mainstream so it never fits my tastes but I can usually forgive that because the ride is AWESOME. (I went on it with Akira before! I think she crushed me, or I crushed her. I forget.)
Unfortunately I felt rather dizzy afterwards, NEVER did before--we theorized that I got dizzy BECAUSE of Hell's Gate before. So after resting for a few minutes we headed to the CORKSCREW, personally one of my favourite rides. I was actually petrified before going on because I hadn't been to the park for....I forget when, either last year or the year before, whenever Akira came, but I had at that point forgotten what the rollercoaster was LIKE, so I was in great fear. Afterwards though I found it was not that scary at all, which was why it WAS one of my favourite rides...because I am a chicken. >_> But it has fun loop-de-loops and such and such.
Then we headed to my other other favourite ride, the Plume...or Flume. I think it was called Flume I forget. It's a log ride and after being disappointed from Hell's Gate I was really hoping to get wet this time! Flume had the LONGEST LINES EVER, and not only were they long, they were SLOW...since each log can only take up to five people and sometimes it could have four or even three people each depending on who came with who to the ride. Sadly when we FINALLY got to the ride itself we were in the back of the log, and everyone in our logs were kids..that means when the log smashes into the water there will be less weight to cause more of the splashy- and thus less of the wetty. I barely got soaked. So disappointed :C
Also you know those pictures they take of you when you go down the STEEPEST fall of some of the rides, I MAKE HORRIBLE PICTURES. In this one my head was behind my bro's, and the rest of the other pictures my head is down or I'm closing my eyes and cringing because GAH IT IS SCARY WHY AM I DOING THIS!?!!?!?
Speaking of which we went on the Wooden Roller Coaster next, also known as simply "Coaster". It is actually one of the top-rated wooden roller coasters in the world according to various sites, that despite how it looks and it's less-than amazing drop-height, the fact that there are lots of "laterals" and "ejector airtime" gives it its great rating. In other words (ESPECIALLY IF YOU SIT IN THE FRONT) as you almost-free-fall during the first drop, the drop is SO FAST AND STEEP that it forces your body TO STAND UP in the seat FROM THE MOMENTUM. Coaster has BARELY ANYTHING keeping you from falling off, basically the single bar in front of you, barely anything AROUND you--a completely wide-open front, and it is just absolutely, absolutely SCARY.
Also you get knocked side-to-side, front-to-back, up-and- down CONSTANTLY, so much that I have three bruises on my right knee ALONE. Granted I should've wore jeans or something, not shorts. Yeah well I know lots of thrill-seekers love this sort of thing I personally didn't enjoy it because it was scary and Spotto doesn't like scary rides. Why did I ride it then? My bro wanted to, and the first time I rode it with a friend of mine (MY FIRST TIME WAS AT THE VERY FRONT TOO DDD:) she forced me to, so yeah...
Oh and Coaster also had pretty long lines, but the line moved quite fast unlike Flume...DESPITE THAT WE WENT ON THE FLUME AGAIN! I really wanted to get wet. Luckily this time we got to seat in the front, this time I sat at the very front so in the pictures my head wouldn't be hidden behind my bro's, lol. I DID get drenched, but only my bottom half, the splash was not large enough to wet my face or hair. This ride did soak us up quite a bit when Akira and her friend were with us, lol.
We decided to take a break after this, and we walked past a LITTLE DONUTS shop, which I always buy whenever I'm at fairs...unfortunately this time I bought a bag too many and started feeling really nauseous so we spent the next few hours waiting in line to see the PRIZE HOUSE WOO! and then sitting in a coliseum (Home of the Vancouver Giants!) for half an hour while staring at them set up for the show "Superdogs".
Unfortunately we did not get to watch that because my brother wanted to see Steven Page, apparently the former lead singer for the Barenaked Ladies play on stage minutes later, so I could not watch the awesome doggies have awesome competitions like I always watched every year when I came to the fair, mostly because it only had one show that day due to some...inexplicable reason, apparently the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy or something was there...not to mention it was ALSO the 100th anniversary of the fair itself, who knew.
The concert wasn't that bad, but I only recognized one song and not only did I miss dinner and STILL felt nauseous, I was extremely cold. WHY did I wear shorts again...
So after feeling a bit better we headed back to the rides, decided to try the ferris wheel. EPIC TIMING. We got on as the finale of the fireworks was happening so we could watch the fireworks while being HIGH IN THE SKY (and actually able to watch the fireworks not soaring back downwards on a rollercoaster or something) probably the highlight of the night. What impeccable timing, really! I mean otherwise if we wanted to watch the fireworks we'd have to get a seat and the concert ended quite late, so there would already be a huge crowd. This was the best seat avaliable at the time and--was probably the best seal overall if the ferris wheel wasn't constantly MOVING. My brother actually found this ride the scariest because we are in the air super-high-and we know it. On a roller coaster or whatever we'd be in the air for a few seconds than we come down so the whole height-thing ain't that scary, but I found the ferris wheel the tamest obviously.
Afterwards we went on the Musical Express one last time, this time was much better---didn't get dizzy, and we DID decide to try the corkscrew again but we saw the thing stuck at the top and assumed it was either broken or closed, so I, still hungry from missing dinner, decide to purchase a corndog, the food I eat every year in the fair--as well as win a souvenir, a stuffed animal because that is also a tradition. The corndog made me nauseous too as I mentioned before. :C I still feel kind of sick.
So that was my day! The fact that we saw fireworks while on the ferris wheel was really awesome though, and I did love the rides...but this is only a rare-one time thing for me because I may sound like a geek but I preferred staying at home playing Starcraft or something over this...at least SC2 doesn't make me nauseous, but nonetheless something like this once-in-a while is very fun, albeit very scary and nauseating...
THIS HAS BEEN SPOTTO!
I just got home from the amusement park, called "Playland" here. Went to the fair too, but Playland was the main attraction obviously. Since I just recently went there and rode on practically every scary ride (except the ones you need to pay extra, we are cheap and those FREAK ME OUT EVEN MORE...)
I figure to give the day a ranking...and well, summarize the day in this blog post obviously.
First I absolutely goddamn hate the food there, I'm sure others will enjoy it but my stomach doesn't seem to like fried butter or fried mars bars or fried batter or fried sugary doughnuts. I think the fact that I don't eat a lot of pure fat whatsoever made my stomach not used to it so I get nauseated whenever I eat anything remotely fat, which is actually good because that will discourage me from eating fast food, but when you go to a place that ONLY has fast food that really kills the stomach.
We ate Dim Sum first. which was pretty good. After that we got the day pass, a stamp to indicate we can ride ANYTHING we want for the entire day, and our very first ride was a ride I NEVER RODE ON BEFORE...called "Hell's Gate".
Sound scary already? I was actually in a way disappointed. My best friend who is terrified of roller coasters and won't ride on them with me went on Hell's Gate before, and told me about it. I had at that point completely forgotten what she told me though, but I knew water was supposed to spray into you as you're flipped upside down constantly like a whiplash-ly swing. WE NEVER GOT WET. So in that sense I was disappointed, it was Summer--not particularly hot though, but I wanted to get wet and that didn't happen.
Anyway the ride was TERRIFYING. When you watch it happen it looks tame, BUT BEING FLIPPED AROUND LIKE THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING! I also smashed my neck when we got super-flipped super-fast and I really dislike the ride not only because it was TERRIFYING but it gave me a booboo. :C It also made the next ride a lot worse.
Afterwards I felt somewhat dizzy, but decided to go on one of my favourite rides: the Musical Express. This ride is not that scary, hell it's not scary at all but I love the adrenaline you get from the UTTER SPEED. It's this crazy insane fast ride that whips you through in a circle with music, the faster the music the faster the ride. Sadly the music is usually mainstream so it never fits my tastes but I can usually forgive that because the ride is AWESOME. (I went on it with Akira before! I think she crushed me, or I crushed her. I forget.)
Unfortunately I felt rather dizzy afterwards, NEVER did before--we theorized that I got dizzy BECAUSE of Hell's Gate before. So after resting for a few minutes we headed to the CORKSCREW, personally one of my favourite rides. I was actually petrified before going on because I hadn't been to the park for....I forget when, either last year or the year before, whenever Akira came, but I had at that point forgotten what the rollercoaster was LIKE, so I was in great fear. Afterwards though I found it was not that scary at all, which was why it WAS one of my favourite rides...because I am a chicken. >_> But it has fun loop-de-loops and such and such.
Then we headed to my other other favourite ride, the Plume...or Flume. I think it was called Flume I forget. It's a log ride and after being disappointed from Hell's Gate I was really hoping to get wet this time! Flume had the LONGEST LINES EVER, and not only were they long, they were SLOW...since each log can only take up to five people and sometimes it could have four or even three people each depending on who came with who to the ride. Sadly when we FINALLY got to the ride itself we were in the back of the log, and everyone in our logs were kids..that means when the log smashes into the water there will be less weight to cause more of the splashy- and thus less of the wetty. I barely got soaked. So disappointed :C
Also you know those pictures they take of you when you go down the STEEPEST fall of some of the rides, I MAKE HORRIBLE PICTURES. In this one my head was behind my bro's, and the rest of the other pictures my head is down or I'm closing my eyes and cringing because GAH IT IS SCARY WHY AM I DOING THIS!?!!?!?
Speaking of which we went on the Wooden Roller Coaster next, also known as simply "Coaster". It is actually one of the top-rated wooden roller coasters in the world according to various sites, that despite how it looks and it's less-than amazing drop-height, the fact that there are lots of "laterals" and "ejector airtime" gives it its great rating. In other words (ESPECIALLY IF YOU SIT IN THE FRONT) as you almost-free-fall during the first drop, the drop is SO FAST AND STEEP that it forces your body TO STAND UP in the seat FROM THE MOMENTUM. Coaster has BARELY ANYTHING keeping you from falling off, basically the single bar in front of you, barely anything AROUND you--a completely wide-open front, and it is just absolutely, absolutely SCARY.
Also you get knocked side-to-side, front-to-back, up-and- down CONSTANTLY, so much that I have three bruises on my right knee ALONE. Granted I should've wore jeans or something, not shorts. Yeah well I know lots of thrill-seekers love this sort of thing I personally didn't enjoy it because it was scary and Spotto doesn't like scary rides. Why did I ride it then? My bro wanted to, and the first time I rode it with a friend of mine (MY FIRST TIME WAS AT THE VERY FRONT TOO DDD:) she forced me to, so yeah...
Oh and Coaster also had pretty long lines, but the line moved quite fast unlike Flume...DESPITE THAT WE WENT ON THE FLUME AGAIN! I really wanted to get wet. Luckily this time we got to seat in the front, this time I sat at the very front so in the pictures my head wouldn't be hidden behind my bro's, lol. I DID get drenched, but only my bottom half, the splash was not large enough to wet my face or hair. This ride did soak us up quite a bit when Akira and her friend were with us, lol.
We decided to take a break after this, and we walked past a LITTLE DONUTS shop, which I always buy whenever I'm at fairs...unfortunately this time I bought a bag too many and started feeling really nauseous so we spent the next few hours waiting in line to see the PRIZE HOUSE WOO! and then sitting in a coliseum (Home of the Vancouver Giants!) for half an hour while staring at them set up for the show "Superdogs".
Unfortunately we did not get to watch that because my brother wanted to see Steven Page, apparently the former lead singer for the Barenaked Ladies play on stage minutes later, so I could not watch the awesome doggies have awesome competitions like I always watched every year when I came to the fair, mostly because it only had one show that day due to some...inexplicable reason, apparently the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy or something was there...not to mention it was ALSO the 100th anniversary of the fair itself, who knew.
The concert wasn't that bad, but I only recognized one song and not only did I miss dinner and STILL felt nauseous, I was extremely cold. WHY did I wear shorts again...
So after feeling a bit better we headed back to the rides, decided to try the ferris wheel. EPIC TIMING. We got on as the finale of the fireworks was happening so we could watch the fireworks while being HIGH IN THE SKY (and actually able to watch the fireworks not soaring back downwards on a rollercoaster or something) probably the highlight of the night. What impeccable timing, really! I mean otherwise if we wanted to watch the fireworks we'd have to get a seat and the concert ended quite late, so there would already be a huge crowd. This was the best seat avaliable at the time and--was probably the best seal overall if the ferris wheel wasn't constantly MOVING. My brother actually found this ride the scariest because we are in the air super-high-and we know it. On a roller coaster or whatever we'd be in the air for a few seconds than we come down so the whole height-thing ain't that scary, but I found the ferris wheel the tamest obviously.
Afterwards we went on the Musical Express one last time, this time was much better---didn't get dizzy, and we DID decide to try the corkscrew again but we saw the thing stuck at the top and assumed it was either broken or closed, so I, still hungry from missing dinner, decide to purchase a corndog, the food I eat every year in the fair--as well as win a souvenir, a stuffed animal because that is also a tradition. The corndog made me nauseous too as I mentioned before. :C I still feel kind of sick.
So that was my day! The fact that we saw fireworks while on the ferris wheel was really awesome though, and I did love the rides...but this is only a rare-one time thing for me because I may sound like a geek but I preferred staying at home playing Starcraft or something over this...at least SC2 doesn't make me nauseous, but nonetheless something like this once-in-a while is very fun, albeit very scary and nauseating...
THIS HAS BEEN SPOTTO!
