The Pursuit Of Happiness - Entry #33

8/07/2013 tringel 0 Comments

August 7, 2013
Went to the county fair with my daddio tonight. My dad got pit-beef and burnt ends and we went on some rides.

The ride part of the fair

It was raining on and off while we were there, but the rides were still going. We both really wanted to do the swings but the line was long, so my dad waited in line and ate while I did some other rides that he didn't want to go on. I did the ride where you go in a spaceship and it spins so fast the your body feels heavy and you can't move. Then boards you are on start moving up and down. The ride spins so fast you can barely tell you are moving in a circle, and if you threw up it would just land back on you.

Our tickets for rides.

I also did the typhoon. You sit in a cart with other people and it spins around in a vertical circle. It was pretty scary but I love those kinds of rides. You could see the whole fair from the top. We also saw it start to lightening which made things even more scary.

The swings in action.

Our 30 seconds of the swing ride.

It ended up working out and being a lot of fun, just not in the way we expected. Because we had our tickets again and I didn't do all the rides I originally wanted (I wanted to go on the fireball - the big circle in the first picture, where you sit in a roller coaster cart and ride in circles upside down), my dad and I were able to do more smaller rides together. We did two rides that go in circles. One is in a cart, and one was similar to swings, where you hang and the rides spin. The added element is that you are facing each other and you can spin yourself in another circle like the Disney teapot ride.