3/13/2010 Ostrich Festival part 3

I’m hoping to finish up this post with this installment. When you take 181 pictures and narrow it down to about 120 and have to narrow it down even more for the blog…well, it takes time.

So we left the Freak Show and saw a crowd walking towards these two very big poles sticking up out of the ground. We had to find out what was going on.

Turns out, this is a carnival ride! NOT one I’d ever get on. For one thing I wouldn’t pay $25.00 for a two minute thrill. Still I had to check this out.

Two people get into this small capsule. They can have nothing in their pockets, no sunglasses, no shoes and they can not be carrying anything such as purse.

After being seated securely in the capsule the riders are then slingshot-ed into the air 200 feet at 100 miles per hour. The rider’s experience 5 G’s!!!

There’s NO WAY I would do this! Jump out of an airplane, sure, but no way would I do this! The funny part is, the capsule is wired with a microphone so we could hear their reactions and screams. I don’t know if they are told to watch their language or not but their voices can be clearly heard from the loud speakers on the ground. This fella let out an “Oh Sh_t as he was being catapulted towards the heavens. I would hope there is some kind of six second delay or someone may be very offended and some kids could hear some words they shouldn’t.

It was time move on and see what else the festival had to offer.

We passed this zip line for little kids and they just seemed to love the flying through the air.

Our next stop was the Dog Docks. Here is where a large pool is set up with platform next to it. A ball or stick is thrown into the water and dog jumps after it. This is all we saw while we were in the area so maybe there was some type of show and if there was, we missed it.

Carnivals sure have gotten a lot more colorful since I was a kid.

And I don’t remember so many rides that turned you upside down.

This is where Donna and Bill and us parted ways. They went in search of something to eat and we went to check out the booths lining the walkway.

What a great day this was. Lots of fun with good friends.