Another exciting day in Denver

[rabidsamfan]

Well, actually a little west of Denver to visit a cousin and then in the afternoon a visit to Lakeside, which is an old amusement park that is actually it's own town at the edge of Denver.

Lakeside is really cool -- the place doesn't make enough money to refurbish wildly, so it still has a lot of its original rides, and an air of the amusement parks of my childhood. Well, it was one of the amusement parks of my childhood, so I guess that's fair enough.

The best ride -- which I went on twice today -- is the Wild Chipmunk. Imagine (if you haven't already clicked the link) a roller coaster so small and harmless looking that you might be able to persuade a chicken friend aboard. After all, instead of a train, the riders go in small egglike cars named Alvin, Simon, Theodore and Chip, two to a car. And the rails of the track aren't any farther apart than the rails on the kiddie roller coaster at the other end of the park. Imagine getting aboard and starting upward to the first turn. Now imagine the fascinating sensation of realizing that your feet have extended beyond the edge of the track in front of you before you suddenly turn...

There are, apparently, other roller coasters in the world which are similar to the Wild Chipmunk, but I've never found one to match it -- even though I've visited some of the theme parks which theoretically have one.

But the others just couldn't be the same, not really.

Best primal scream therapy in the State of Colorado...

Comments

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

*shudders*

There's a Wild Mouse at Playland in Vancouver. I've never been on it.

*shudders again*

[shirebound]

That looks like a fun way to spend the day! :)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I so wish I could ride rollercoasters! They make me barf, though, so I live thorugh it vicariously through others! Yay! :-) I do love that ride called hte Scrambler, though! :D

[sayhello.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good time. I *do* so miss rollercoasters. :-( The back from Hell has decided that rollercoasters are no longer in my future. At one point, there was a TV special that showed the top 10 rollercoasters in the world, and I'd been on all but 2 of them (one was in Japan. I think the other might have been Houston, but I don't recall). No longer. Sigh... Last rollercoaster I rode was the Rockin'Rollercoaster at DisneyWorld, and I could barely walk the next day. :-( Ah, well. I'll have to live vicariously through you.

And it's always the innocuous-looking ones that really scare the pants off of you...

Hewene

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

I rode a kiddie rollercoaster with my mom one time at Six Flags in Dallas, and nearly DIED, we were both so scared on it! :)

Then I remember riding the Viper here in Houston with my best friend, and we could only scream profanity, I fear. It was a metal coaster and went upside down and sideways and scared the beejeebees out of me.

The worst, though, was the Rattler in San Antonio. At the time, it was the tallest wooden rollercoaster in the world... and when I got off, I was sure I'd NEED therapy, lol!