The drink of this weekend is MOAR SOBRIETY and I am lovin' it big time. I haven't been able to stomach the word "beer" let alone put my lips near it since last Friday's Kitty Hoynes/V4P adventure. This is the first time I've gone without alcohol voluntarily in a very, very long time (my 7-month deal with the devil was very much not voluntary...).
SO TELL ME WHY I FEEL LIKE I'M HUNGOVER TODAY!
Was it:
A) Sleeping for 11 hours.
B) The shitty excuse for "taco salad."
C) THE PREDATOR.
Oh hay, I think it was C.
Joe and I went to Darien Lake yesterday. It was a great time - we rode "The Ride of Steel" (Superman) four times and "Grizzley Run" three times (and got thoroughly soaked). The "Cirque Noveau" show was pretty awesome too (essentially a cheap rip-off of Cirque De Soleil, but ya'know, when in Rome...). But goddamn is that place just tired.
I guess Six Flags sold the theme park back to private owners a couple years ago - I've not been since the change in managerial staff - and you can certainly tell. The place needs some new paint, new attractions, and maybe some competent workers. The rides are beat up (I nearly had a stroke on the Predator, a wooden coaster... it HAD to be against some sort of roller coaster building code or something) and break down sporadically. THE GIRL MAKING MY TACO SALAD DIDN'T KNOW WHAT JALAPENOS ARE (when I said in exasperation "SPICY PEPPERS" I heard her say "Oh, I thought those were anchovies" - I KID YOU NOT).
It's clear that the owners don't really give much of a thought to the place anymore - sad, really, because you think about NY and Darien Lake is one of the only theme parks that come to mind. You've got Seabreeze in Rochester, Sylvan Beach (near Oneida), Enchanted Forest in Old Forge and Great Escape on Lake George (and my handy dandy google-fu also comes up with Santa's Workshop near Lake Placid). Seabreeze and Enchanted Forest are water parks, Sylvan Beach is a complete bust, Great Escape is a bit woodsy and Santa's Workshop caters towards the young, so you go to Darien Lake for rollercoasters... and none are that great except for Superman.
I'm finding it to be a problem, what with me getting older and all, that rides jostle me around more than I'd like. I don't know if it's that I NOTICE it more now or that the rides themselves are getting older and more rickity. Superman is exceptionally smooth-riding but I think I like it most because it doesn't have a shoulder-harness. Of course this means no upside-down, but it ALSO means no "Amanda smashing her ears against said harness because she's a shorty." I never will ride the Viper again... my poor ears are swollen today because it.
But the day was great regardless. We didn't have to pay for parking (yay for accidents at the front gate and getting lost in the back of the park?), I had a kickass kielbasa with sauerkraut, Joe had his Dippin' Dots and we have achy bones today for a good reason.
And tonight? Who knows what's up except that I'm playing DD.
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