So last weekend my sister, Paula, arrived from Halifax for a visit. It's always nice to see her, especially if she brings a treat with her. An boy did she bring a treat. Tickets to Paramount Canada's Wonderland.
It's an amusment park. Lots of fun stuff to do.
Right off the bat I headed for the Extreme Sky Flyer. It cost me $45.00 for the ride and anopther $23.00 for the video but it's well worth it.
Ride Stats:
Arch Height: 173 ft
Tower Height: 152 ft
Free Fall: 50 ft
Closest point ot he ground: 6 ft
Top Speed: 60 mph!
Now, I used to be afraid of heights. Not phobic about it, just never liked it.
As I was being winched up to the top of the tower it would tug at my waist and it felt as though I were going to tip over and fall out of the harness.
If you listen closely to near the end you can hear Logan, my son, say i did a good job! LOL!
After that we went over to ther Top Gun Roller Coaster.
Carrie and I were in the front seat. Keep in mind that this is only her second time at Wonderland, and her second time on this ride. Hell her first ride was seven years ago and her first time on ANY roller coaster! First time, 7 years ago, they took pics of each seat set and we were about 5 seats back. This time they had eliminated that option. It's now a video of the front seats only. As you'll see in the video it's based off of the movie Top Gun (duh!) and simulates the flight charactreistics of a fighter plane! WOOT!
I have to give Carrie credit for doing this. Even though she was scared she held up pretty damned good!
Other than that've been busy at work training. 5 am is still too damned early to be up, but I'm on my last week of training and on the phones soon.
1 comment:
Heya Keither!
It is wicked watching the video, just like watching it live. Love it! The Top Gun is great too, watching poor Carrie scared to death and you all non-challantly laughing and smiling. This is a great blog entry.
Love,
Mom
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