Amusement Parks - County Fairs - Theme Parks.

[notoppings]

Well it's Fair season here on the West Coast a time of year I really enjoy.

I usually don't enjoy crowds but there is just something about a county fair that I enjoy it's not always the rides or the abundance of food the exhibits or the Ag displays. It's the people the way that a couple or family is able to detach themselves from the crowd and enter this world of happiness and bliss while being surrounded by a multitude of strangers, they seem to withdraw into their own world, for me that is a great feeling I can sit on a bench and just watch people all day because of the happiness factor.

So how about others here do any of you enjoy a Fair or Theme Park or one of those big Amusement Parks?

Do you have a favorite?

If so what do you enjoy about them?

Is it the food?, the rides?, the carnival atmosphere?

Maybe you don't enjoy either if so why not?

[PRBori]

No amusement parks, or county fairs, or theme parks for me. I have to keep my budget straight and that means no entertainment until next year. I must stay on my budget specially after getting hit so hard this month with a 3K loss in wages. All my fun plans got shatter.... I guess the only fun I'll have is when I go on my business trips to a different place outside of the normal and that will not be too fun for my sweetie pie will be left behind with a teacher... but sometimes we have to sacrifice...

[notoppings]

No amusement parks, or county fairs, or theme parks for me. I have to keep my budget straight and that means no entertainment until next year. I must stay on my budget specially after getting hit so hard this month with a 3K loss in wages. All my fun plans got shatter.... I guess the only fun I'll have is when I go on my business trips to a different place outside of the normal and that will not be too fun for my sweetie pie will be left behind with a teacher... but sometimes we have to sacrifice...

Did you ever enjoy them in the past? If so tell me an experience.

Do you look forward to talking your daughter to one?

[PRBori]

Did you ever enjoy them in the past? If so tell me an experience.

Do you look forward to talking your daughter to one?

I personally don't go much to them. To be honest the last time I went to an amusement park was almost 12 years ago with my son's father who loved it. At the time I had no issues with it, I did enjoy the roller coaster rides and the time in a family friendly environment.

Same goes for country fairs, I believe the last time I went was 2 years ago and I did enjoy it, specially the rock climbing part of it. Is fun when you go with people you are used to, but I wouldn't go alone at all for its not my type of environment.

I know I probably sound like a boring mom but I'm not... I'm just focus on more important things.

[dandylion]

Uggggggh. Amusement parks. I love going to them, but I always have somewhat of a bad experience each time.

In 6th grade at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk I would have fallen off the Giant Dipper during one of the loops had my math teacher who was riding with me hadn't pulled me down again. Well, that wasn't so bad I guess. It was actually kind of fun, almost falling off. Later in the same day a girl forced me to go on the same spinny ride twice and I thought it wouldn't hurt, so I went, and afterward I laid on the beach for the next 4-5 hours feeling miserable.

Once at Six Flags I was on one of the rides and the sudden jerk of the ride caused me to bite into my lip really hard and make it bleed. I have a tiny scar on my lip from that now.

When I went to Disneyland one summer I got stuck going around with a girl I hated and when I happened to make a startled noise while we were going down an ultra tiny waterfall (I don't know how I could've gotten scared on that ride but be perfectly okay going on roller coasters and even bigger waterfalls?), she started bitching at me at how it wasn't that scary, and we just argued the rest of the ride. So we fought for a bit and I thought I would spare everyone from having to listen to us bicker, so I just shut up and ditched her while she was looking at the pictures of us on the ride. Then I *really* had to go pee, but all the bathrooms seemed to be hidden or something. It was pretty maddening. I tried to call my sister but I couldn't figure out how to get the pay phones to work (I know, pathetic). I ate ice cream and some guys tried to hit on me... at Disneyland out of all the places! I could've been an older-looking 12-year-old for all they know. Then I watched the stupid parade and fireworks by myself and cried because of that damn "When you wish upon a star" song. I hate Disneyland.

Then there's Paramounts Great America. I never really had a problem here when I was younger (used to go all the time), but when I went here 4 years ago my friends convinced me to go on the Centrifuge ride even though I didn't want to because I just ate and I was afraid I was going to be sick. But I went on, and well... I was right. Then I went on the Psycho Mouse ride, so that didn't really help either. I felt pretty miserable for the next few hours.
I was back there a couple weeks ago for Physics Day. Geez, I hadn't even been there for half an hour yet and I was already getting queasy. First I went on the Celebration Swings ride, which really looked innocent and harmless and was pretty enjoyable, but I got quite dizzy on that. Then I went on the Demon roller coaster two times in a row, and I would've gone on it over and over and over again all day (it's my favorite roller coaster!) if not for all the dizziness and the wanting to vomit/collapse/die. I avoided going on any rides after that and it got so bad that I couldn't walk anymore, so I stayed in the arcade to get out of the blistering heat. "Permission to die?" I kept asking. (It was THAT bad.) "No." My friends had to fetch a really good-looking emergency medical technician who thought I had a severe case of dehydration (even though I'd been drinking lots of water). He said, "Do you want to come to the first aid center? It's cool there and we have beds and drugs--" "Drugs??! TAKE ME!!" And so he wheel-chaired me out of the arcade to the van and drove me to the first aid center where I laid on a shabby bed for the rest of the day. When I tried to leave at the front desk the guys looked at me like I was going to fall over any second, and I thought I had to go lie back down because I was seeing doubles, but they were just twins.

I'm not going to avoid amusement parks just because of all that, though. The fun outweighs the negatives.

[azelismia]

amusement parks are lame!

[Uberfuhrer]

I like going to them, but I like envisioning them even more!

[SShack]

I just went to Disneyland yesterday with my INTJ guy. We're both Disney fans. I'm not going to speak for him (I'm trying to get him to join the forums though), but I'm drawn in by all the innovations. I go into the rides trying to figure out how they work and how things happen. We were standing around the Matterhorn and I wondered out loud if they planned on making the holes in the mountain to cause the shouts to echo so that folks passing by could hear them or whether that turned out to be a happy coincidence. Walt, of course, was also an ENTP.

[lordrrr]

Love Love Love Amusment Parks!


Rides Are The Best!!!!



I Love Them!!!!