Sunday, April 1, 2012
day at the park
This past weekend our neighbors asked us to go to the park with them. So Thursday morning we loaded up and went. They set the time 9:00am, but of course they really weren't ready until about 10:15. Why do I still try to be on-time here??? Anyway, after them planning it, it ended up just being one of the older brothers and the oldest sister, (she is 22, not sure how old the brother is). Along with the were three younger brothers and sisters and two cousins. So we had a van full of kids! They all played on the playground for a while and we visited, the sister is fixing to become engaged, she thinks. He is not from this city, but because he works in the country to the north, he has said he will get a house here so that she doesn't have to move. We will see if that really happens, who knows. She has never met, seen, or talked to him, and she will not until they are married. Even after they are engaged she can not see or talk to him. I can't even imagine! So we talk about that for awhile and then some of the older kids wanted to go to the other part of the park where there are amusement rides. We had never been there, so we all decided to go. Let me just say, it was an experience!!!
The girls had asked numerous times when we were here before to go, but Kirk always said NO! He did not want them riding on rides in this country that were maintained here. a little scary. But I guess we have worn him down, so he agreed. So we go and buy tickets and we all just pool the money and tickets and we got 28 tickets. So with about 8 kids riding each child should get to ride 3 things and we would have a couple of tickets left. Of course, i'm thinking and doing the math, forgetting where we live.
What I learned was even here where it seems there would be rules, there really are none!!! The first thing the kids wanted to ride was the swings, seemed like a good idea, and that would take 8 tickets, but no! Even in the seats that are obviously meant for one, two people can get in and then you bargain and don't even give a ticket for each swing you take up! Crazy!!! I could not believe that Ayden and Addie were sharing a swing and Annie lynne was sitting on the lap of another girl. Also forget about rules, and safety and lines. There are NONE. When the swing has almost come to a stop everyone rushes up and pushes and grabs until everyone that can has gotten into a swing, and seat belts, forget it. It did have the bar that came down, but the kids could pick it up and put it down anytime they wanted. As we left that ride, we went to the roller coaster, it was worse! no line again and this time people are pushing and shoving up to the ledge, so if someone fell they would fall right off onto the track for the coaster. The people that work there, don't care, it is completely normal to them; really Kirk and I were the only ones that thought it was strange. The funny part was watching as the roller coaster came to a stop people were literally climbing in on top of the ones getting out, so funny. But it gets funnier! Kirk's friend wanted he and Kirk to ride, so the girls finally got on (annielynne is pretty good at pushing her way to the front, she wasn't missing out) and then after they went Kirk and his friend got on, when they sat down a lady handed the friend her baby (maybe one year old). So the baby rode with Kirk and his friend in their car. Why, who knows, the friend didn't know the lady she didn't know him, she just handed her baby over to some random person so he could ride. Then my friend and I got in line, but before we could ride the electricity went off and the roller coaster got stuck full of people, glad we were not on!
Each ride was kind of like this, if the car on the ride was meant for two, four or five people were riding in it. Never any lines, or organization, no rules, babies riding everything. And on that note if you look close you can see abram riding a spinning ride that annielynne probably would not be tall enough for in America. But he liked it! (sorry mom) They really wanted him to ride one, so Kirk got on too, but his friend was holding Abram. The things I really never thought I would allow. Thankful I can put my trust in something Greater!
Fun day! and I figured it out that all the kids rode about 5 rides and the adults rode some too, and we had tickets left! Glad we went with a national family, don't think we would have ever gotten on any rides without them helping us push through and I know we would have actually paid for each ride. So a fun day and the kids got to go on all those rides for a grand total of about $4.
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