I’m about a month behind in posting our summer activities! We went to this nearby annual event in July. I think we took Tyler once, though before he was born I used to go all of the time! You know how that can be! The food, rides and games are packed pretty tightly together so it wasn’t too bad of a walk for me and there were tables were I could sit down when I needed to.
It wasn’t as crowded as it’s been in years past and Grant and I can only blame the economy. $8.00 for a sausage and peppers sandwich? And by the time you figure out what the tickets cost to get on the rides, they wind up being three or four dollars per person! Maybe that’s just New Jersey?
Anyway, here’s Tyler on his first “roller coaster” ride. He’s so fearless. We watched the ride first and some of the kids were screaming on it and had to come off but he said he wanted to do it.
Tyler was equally brave on the teacups with me. He loved spinning around really fast. I had thought my days of rides were over but I can still handle the teacups!
The last ride of the night was the giant slide which Grant didn’t learn until they both got up there that a new law had passed since last year and you could no longer slide down the slide holding your child. I was down at the bottom wondering what the Hell Grant was thinking letting Tyler ride on his own! He loved it! I think he takes after the both of us in our love of fast and wild rides!
The fireworks, which are done by the same people who do the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks, didn’t start until 10:00 that night, so we decided against that. We all had a great time!
The ride charges are pretty standard. They’re generally set by the company that does the rides.
$8 for a sandwich, though, is ridiculous! In my pre-spoonie and early spoonie days I was on my town’s volunteer fire department and helped out at a couple carnivals we ran and I don’t think there was ever an item of food over $4-5 of the things we sold (which is where the sausage & peppers sandwiches were). Things were more expensive if they were done by the company that did the rides, but that was generally things like cotton candy and caramel apples, not things people would eat for a meal.
I smiled inside, seeing you on the teacup ride. I rode the teacup ride at an amusement park earlier this year, and when we stopped, I literally could not see straight, and felt ill on top of that!
I keep saying that at 40, I’m no spring chicken anymore!
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