Life is like a rollercoaster: sometimes you go up, sometimes you throw up

one of the things we like the best is to feel like there is a chance that we're going to die. so once every month, or so, we're going to an amusement park to try all the roolercoasters and every other thrill ride. and if there is something that looks really unstable we'll do it again.

That's also the reason May drove most of the time (although that may be too much of a thrill for most people) Sadly, we haven't had the chance to visit all the theme parks in North America, but we visited enough, I think, to get the general idea. It doesn't take long for you to know what to expect and start getting excited only from the good ones. That is especially true for 'motion movies' - it's great the first time, but after the fifth it gets boring. O, my, we narrowly escaped another boulder/asteroid/hostile germ falling at us, how exciting. I though we were gone for sure.

and another thing about these motion rides is that it's not very good to your stomach, i mean i can ride a million (well maybe not a million, cause i don't think i can walk that much to see a million rollercoasters, cause they occpuy a lot more space then a million starbursts) rollercoasters and only feel like i really need to eat an funnel-cake, but after only one motion movie i feel like i really need to open my window....


Usually the Funnel Cake will take care of your stomach; or if you can't find any, a corn dog or a turky leg will will do. Whoever said there aren't enough meats on a stick? All you need is to go to Disneyworld. The food there, like everything else, doesn't have any connection to reality. Actually the whole Orlando area is pretty secluded of reality, especially when you experience it at 40 degrees Celcius and 117% humidity. Except the Kennedy Space Center; that one seemed kinda fake.

as we all know the TV is much more real than the real thing. but thrill rides are something completely different! i have a question for all our supposed readers - why is a rollercoaster called a rollercoaster? what is a coaster anyway? one of you, dear readers, will win a trip to the best rollercoaster in the usa on his/her expense.

And in case you don't know what to choose, a panel of our best experts in the subject (guess who) sat and discussed it overnight, and decided to give the best mover and shaker in the US award to:

"the big shot" - on top of the 'statosphere' in las vegas. a free fall - you stand on the edge of the roof and somebody pushes you down. Mmmm... not really, but something very much like that.

Runners-up to the title include the Boomerang in Darien lake and the Batman & Robin in Six Flags New Jersey - those coasters that take you on a couple of loops - and then take you on the same loops backwards, and The Twilight Zone tower in MGM Studios, Disneyworld. On a historical note we have to comment on the Cyclone on Coney Island - an ancient but surprisingly good coaster that's operating there since the 20's, and the revolution in Magic Mountain, which includes the world's first loop! Now that's a historic site, and to think they make such a big deal out of that cracked bell!

in the end we needed biger thrills. so in magic mountain we paid, more then we did to enter the park, to be thrown from a spot in the sky to the ground, face down, with no good reason to believe that there is something that will stop us....

As it turned out, we didn't die, which means now we need even bigger thrills to excite us. Next time I want an adrenaline rush I'll go rock-climbing with Cat. And when that too gets boring, I'll have to start having sex.