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Apr. 24th, 2016 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressToday was my last full day in California.
(Surprise! See how much you suffer from me not writing regular livejournal posts? You don't even know what coast I'm on! Anyways, I was visiting mek for April vacation. My traveling home starts at 4:30 tomorrow and continues for over twelve hours, sorta, time zones are weird. Anyways, I should be at Logan well in advance of needing to start work on Monday. Yes I am going straight from my vacation to work. Bluhhhh does not even begin to cover it.)
Anyways, it was the last full day, so mek and I decided to go to Scandia, which we had visited on Thursday for mini-golf. On Thursday, the rides had not been open, so we clearly had to come back. This was an excellent plan --they work on a ticket system, or for the same price as fewer tickets than it takes to ride everything, you could get a wristband good for unlimited rides and also golf. In short, we spent the better part of eleven hours there. Coincidentally, that is also the number of times we rode the Screamer, the tallest, scariest, and best ride.
(You are not, however, allowed to scream on the screamer. There've been lawsuits from the neighbors across the freeway. So, uh, that's a thing, certainly. We suggested they rename it the silencer.)
Anyways, the last of these times was in full night. The screamer has two pairs of two seats, and so while people were getting on the other set, we hung, 168 ft off the ground, and gazed out into the rising moon and over the sparkling lights of Sacramento. The seats all face east, but two times before, we still managed to catch flashes of the setting sun as we flipped over and upside down.
It was, in short, fucking glorious. Our original goal was 17, but the lines got longer as the sun set, and so we figured 11 rides was good enough.
We also managed to play two rounds of mini-golf (I am flat terrible at mini-golf, but mek has given me some pointers that actively make me suck very slightly less), and ride everything else except the water-bumper-boats (NO WATER. TOO COOL OUT FOR WET.) and just in general have a very good time of things. We swung back by the house for dinner, after I realized I was starting to turn pink, and bought me a small thing of sunscreen. I applied it liberally and don't think I burned too bad once we got back.
There was a ride that basically felt like a spirograph that I was quite fond of --I was afraid it was going to be a teacups ride, but no, it had beautiful long zig-zag feels to it, rather than double spinning. We rode that one at least eight times as well. And there was a terrible bruisey roller coaster that involved a lot of being bashed from one side of the car to the other, and not nearly enough drops and scary stuff. (That had a much longer line than the scrambler, and was not nearly as nice, so we only rode it three times.)
It was a very satisfying day.
***
This visit in general has been quite satisfying! We did more mini-golf, and arcade games last Wednesday, and spent Thursday wandering around bookstores and the woods. Yesterday was cool and rainy and we baked.
I quite like getting to spend time with mek. I should bend my life so it happens more often.
~Sor
MOOP!
(Surprise! See how much you suffer from me not writing regular livejournal posts? You don't even know what coast I'm on! Anyways, I was visiting mek for April vacation. My traveling home starts at 4:30 tomorrow and continues for over twelve hours, sorta, time zones are weird. Anyways, I should be at Logan well in advance of needing to start work on Monday. Yes I am going straight from my vacation to work. Bluhhhh does not even begin to cover it.)
Anyways, it was the last full day, so mek and I decided to go to Scandia, which we had visited on Thursday for mini-golf. On Thursday, the rides had not been open, so we clearly had to come back. This was an excellent plan --they work on a ticket system, or for the same price as fewer tickets than it takes to ride everything, you could get a wristband good for unlimited rides and also golf. In short, we spent the better part of eleven hours there. Coincidentally, that is also the number of times we rode the Screamer, the tallest, scariest, and best ride.
(You are not, however, allowed to scream on the screamer. There've been lawsuits from the neighbors across the freeway. So, uh, that's a thing, certainly. We suggested they rename it the silencer.)
Anyways, the last of these times was in full night. The screamer has two pairs of two seats, and so while people were getting on the other set, we hung, 168 ft off the ground, and gazed out into the rising moon and over the sparkling lights of Sacramento. The seats all face east, but two times before, we still managed to catch flashes of the setting sun as we flipped over and upside down.
It was, in short, fucking glorious. Our original goal was 17, but the lines got longer as the sun set, and so we figured 11 rides was good enough.
We also managed to play two rounds of mini-golf (I am flat terrible at mini-golf, but mek has given me some pointers that actively make me suck very slightly less), and ride everything else except the water-bumper-boats (NO WATER. TOO COOL OUT FOR WET.) and just in general have a very good time of things. We swung back by the house for dinner, after I realized I was starting to turn pink, and bought me a small thing of sunscreen. I applied it liberally and don't think I burned too bad once we got back.
There was a ride that basically felt like a spirograph that I was quite fond of --I was afraid it was going to be a teacups ride, but no, it had beautiful long zig-zag feels to it, rather than double spinning. We rode that one at least eight times as well. And there was a terrible bruisey roller coaster that involved a lot of being bashed from one side of the car to the other, and not nearly enough drops and scary stuff. (That had a much longer line than the scrambler, and was not nearly as nice, so we only rode it three times.)
It was a very satisfying day.
***
This visit in general has been quite satisfying! We did more mini-golf, and arcade games last Wednesday, and spent Thursday wandering around bookstores and the woods. Yesterday was cool and rainy and we baked.
I quite like getting to spend time with mek. I should bend my life so it happens more often.
~Sor
MOOP!