Amusement Parks
Long weekends are nice, let me just get that out of the way first and foremost. I recently started taking advantage of the fact that I have 3 day weekends due to working 4/10 at my job here in Scotts Valley. I woke up sorta early on friday and did about an hour and a half of DDR. After that, I cleaned up some and met some of my co-workers for lunch, Mongolian BBQ. Yum! After that we went to Fry’s. It was the first time that I had been in a Fry’s. Man, I could spend a ridiculous amount of money in there. I limited myself and just bought a new keyboard and mouse and some cds and a game. After Fry’s I risked death and rode down 17 with Charlie, in the rain… Trust me, this was very very dangerous, at this moment I’m still not sure if I died on the way back and am currently in heaven or hell at the moment.
After Friday’s Fry’s adventure, I went to Paramount Great America. Overall it was a good trip, except I’m learning more and more than I’m getting too big and tall for this world. There was a ride there, The Grizzly, that my large physical proportions keep me from being able to ride it. I was so just sadden about it all. I’m a little overweight but my problem was a combination of my height and my just general dimensions. Just more evidence that I need to become filthy rich and built ‘Tiayr’s Big and Tall Fun World!’ I have a season pass so I’ll probably go back a bunch during the season and hopefully I’ll enjoy all the other rides that they have. By the way, the new Survivor ride, did not look impressive, I didn’t even have the urge to ride it.
Today I rode up the 9 with Janet and just took in the sights. Redwoods everywhere, it’s amazingly beautiful. It’s really hard to grasp how tall the tress are here. I would look up and then have to bend my knees and lean back to finally view the tops of trees. It gave me a sense of how little kids feel looking up to me, I just ended up smiling and enjoying the view. We rode through Felton, Ben Lomend, Brookdale, and Boulder Creek. If the redwoods weren’t there it would have been just like driving up in the mountains in western North Carolina. The towns were little backwoods looking towns, except they all have wi-fi and expensive cars in every driveway and the general cost of a home there would be at least a half a million dollars. So yeah, almost exactly like western NC expect not at all:-)