Yesterday the family went to a place called Great ESCAPE, which is a waterpark and theme park located in Lake George, NY. The kids and wife went on lots of rollercoasters which hung upside down and pulled screaming people through water. One of the neatest rides was called the Tornado, and featured families on rubber rafts which would drop seven floors before sucking you into a maelstrom of water some 60 stories in height. I didn't want to do this, but the wife said I had to, and I'm glad I did!
We also went on Lazy River, and down tube shoots, and on train rides through what was once Storyville (1956) which still had plaster busts of crocodiles and elephants, and Alice in Wonderland, and which our 5-year old felt happy to ride through with me. The train was a miniature thing packed with tourists.
On the Swan Ride, a 500 lb. woman got on, and the thing listed to one side. Normally the Swan Ride takes 9 people. With the blimp on, they could only fit six of us. I was afraid I would have to rescue the kids from drowning.
As we drove home last night I picked up a paper. There were two headlines. One about Casey Anthony, and the other about a guy who crushed a puppy.
Casey Anthony was acquitted on the charge of murdering her baby, Caylee, in June 2008. In spite of the duct-taped mouth (apparently she didn't want the baby's screams to be heard when she stoved in her head), and the maggots and smell of human remains in her car, and the baby being found in the woods behind her parents' house, she was only convicted of four counts of lying to investigators.
In another case, "Jarrod D. Lent, 38, was caring for a 6-month-old Yorkshire Terrier named Aeromay earlier this year when he discovered the animal had soiled the carpet. The dog hid behind a couch. Lent then crushed the dog between a couch and a wall, instantly causing its death, officials said" (page A1, POST STAR, July 6, 2011, Wednesday afternoon edition, Glens Falls, NY).
"His conduct is not only outrageous, demonstrates a temper out of control, but a rage so violent he is a danger to others," Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy said after the sentencing. He got one year in jail.
Jarrod D. Lent is a man. Casey Anthony is a woman, and she'd been sexually assaulted by her father, which confused her, and made her want to go to disco parties, and duct-tape her child's face, and then kill her. Caylee Anthony should be free to spend a day at the water park. But instead her mother killed her. Or at least that's how most Americans think of it. She should date OJ Simpson.
I have to mow the lawn.
Here's a short video of the Tornado. Most of the world doesn't even have drinking water. We have millions of gallons of water to play in. Get thee to a water park, as Shakespeare might have had said, had they had such things to say back in the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5su_qWyZKhY
2 comments:
i can't believe nobody bit on this bone
maybe because the very thought of it induces a little nausea
my theory about water slides is they serve as rebirthing experiences and everyone even the adults takes gleeful delight in being reborn on the water slide it's a sort of religion like theme parks distraction at a high level
and destined to be
transcendental if not hard on your teeth
i loved that movie
the great escape
theme parks disturb me
even to think about them ]
pits me puts me pots me in
a wretched frame of mind
who needs a theme park
when we've blogs like this 'ne
heah
did you really drop seven stories into a birth canal
wow
tell us about this kirby
were you like born again??
jh
Well, JH, you have a strong point here. It did perhaps feel like that, including the drop through the curvilicious hole at the bottom.
I did feel reborn. But I have a sprained ankle, and hit it going down several times, and so that sprain feeling was also reborn.
But the main thing is I felt renewed.
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