okay, okay...all in all, it was really fun but darcy & i had plans, dammit. we were legal this time and were all excited about having some beers and going on rides. i guess we should have known better once they started handing out these buttons at the front gate.
apparently we chose to go adventureland ourselves on a booze-free weekend. so unbelievably lame. and then it was such a nice sunshiny day that it made us want beers even more. i seriously considered walking to a convenience store and buying some but somehow we managed to enjoy ourselves...only after bitching about it for at least a solid two and a half hours.
anyhooptie, for nostalgia's sake we donned phatty pants and said "dude" a lot. and darcy ate meat.
there were a bunch on new rides. my old favorites are still the Sky Lift (shut up, i like it), the Tornado (which is one of the top 10 wooden coasters in the US...i just learned this recently. woot.), and the newer Outlaw coaster. maybe i'm just getting old but the Dragon roller coaster is, to be impressively articulate, a suckfest. the two loops are fun but the rest of the ride is rather painful and jerky. i came away with a headache. stupid Dragon. snarl.
the new rides that i enjoyed were this weird wheel-shaped ride called the Sidewinder that spins around and swings out over the people in line (bad ride to be sick on) and gives you that googily stomache feeling like the Galleon but more intense. also, a ride called the Underground was really entertaining because it was so stupid and involved a fog machine, unnecessary water spraying, and strobe lights. i enjoyed it way too much.
but the one i liked the most was the Space Shot which is described on the a-land website as: Feel the force of four and one half G's as you're hurled 200 feet into the sky in less than two seconds, and then plunge back to earth as the Space Shot thrusts you down into an all-out free fall as fast as gravity can pull you.
so, yeah, i personally re-name this ride the Orgazmo and that's all I'll say about that.
we went on some water rides too but managed to stay relatively dry. the weirdest part of the day came when we went on the Silly Silo. it was something i always liked as a kid but for some reason this time it just fucked darcy & i up. i guess spinning around so fast that you stick to the wall just doesn't work for me anymore. we didn't get sick or anything we just felt like we needed to sit down and wonder what we just did to our brains. then, we laughed like crazy people for longer than we should have and were glad that we weren't able to drink alcohol because that ride would have made us pass out or at the very least very ill.
well, that's the shorter version of the day. we didn't go to any of the souvenir shops or get those olden day photos taken of ourselves. we did eat everything on the oink list and i ate a tenderloin too (i never eat those) and darcy had a gyro. we had chocolate shakes too. there's something about adventureland that makes you eat. it's sick. no funnel cakes though. good for us...but then, they don't have strawberry topping and whipped cream anymore. what's the point then, eh?
i took pictures on a disposable camera so i'll probably come back and post some pics once i finish the roll and get 'em developed. happy happy.
