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fun in the sun
Jul. 15th, 2006 11:54 pmM and I performed a scientific experiment today: Can One Have Fun Without Computers? And although the sample size was small, it seems that it is indeed possible. Who would have ever thought? We headed off bright and early this morning to Kentucky Kingdom (Six Flags, amusement park), which is in Louisville. And now we are tired and sunburned from our excursion but life is feeling pretty nice. This is exactly the sort of thing we make plans for and then never actually do. It's not exactly that we're lazy, but it's pretty close.
Note: next time, probably should go on a day that is not so hot that the concrete is melting. I think it could have been the hottest day of the year. Weather.com gave me a Severe Weather Alert about the heat this morning. And, the first thing we stood in line for.. the girl directly in front of us passed out from the heat. We were almost exclusively going for the water park because I have such trouble with motion sickness these days. Here's an oddity about me: I used to love love love rides of any sorts. I never got motion sickness. Then, my sophomore year in high school, I started being randomly queasy for an entire month--never figured out why. That went away, but it left me prone to motion sickness. I could still ride roller coasters, but nothing that went in circles. Of late, it's so sensitive that I did a somersault in the swimming pool two weeks ago that made me feel a little woozy. And M hates standing in lines (I swear the boy isn't really Swedish) so it all worked out.
M wouldn't let me bitch about the prices of stuff inside, as we were all about the having fun, so now I have to make up for lost time. But seriously. A fountain drink should not cost $4. An Icee should not cost $4.50 (well, especially not when the sign said $4.49.. that woman had some problems) and damn it, vending machine water should not cost $3. It's communism. (But I will say that the water was the best thing I had all day. Amazing what dehydration does to your taste buds!)
Highlight of the day: a woman with the most awful mullet that either of us have ever seen. Dark hair, spiky on top, cut short-short and straight around the sides, and a relatively small amount left long at the very base of her neck... that was curly and hanging to her waist. The scariest thing was that you could tell by looking at it that she spent a lot of time making it look just like that. She cannot possibly look in the mirror every morning and think, "wow. this looks great." Can she?
Note: next time, probably should go on a day that is not so hot that the concrete is melting. I think it could have been the hottest day of the year. Weather.com gave me a Severe Weather Alert about the heat this morning. And, the first thing we stood in line for.. the girl directly in front of us passed out from the heat. We were almost exclusively going for the water park because I have such trouble with motion sickness these days. Here's an oddity about me: I used to love love love rides of any sorts. I never got motion sickness. Then, my sophomore year in high school, I started being randomly queasy for an entire month--never figured out why. That went away, but it left me prone to motion sickness. I could still ride roller coasters, but nothing that went in circles. Of late, it's so sensitive that I did a somersault in the swimming pool two weeks ago that made me feel a little woozy. And M hates standing in lines (I swear the boy isn't really Swedish) so it all worked out.
M wouldn't let me bitch about the prices of stuff inside, as we were all about the having fun, so now I have to make up for lost time. But seriously. A fountain drink should not cost $4. An Icee should not cost $4.50 (well, especially not when the sign said $4.49.. that woman had some problems) and damn it, vending machine water should not cost $3. It's communism. (But I will say that the water was the best thing I had all day. Amazing what dehydration does to your taste buds!)
Highlight of the day: a woman with the most awful mullet that either of us have ever seen. Dark hair, spiky on top, cut short-short and straight around the sides, and a relatively small amount left long at the very base of her neck... that was curly and hanging to her waist. The scariest thing was that you could tell by looking at it that she spent a lot of time making it look just like that. She cannot possibly look in the mirror every morning and think, "wow. this looks great." Can she?
