Adrenalin park
Surfers Paradise
26.03.2007
The week after Whitsundays, Meribeth and I were pretty warn out needed to take some time off. So we just hung around the house for the week.
One day we decided to go south about 20 minutes to Surfers Paradise. At Surfers Paradise they have a place called the adrenalin park. The Adrenalin park is about 5 scary rides that you can do. They have bungy jumping, the vomitron, the sling shot, and the swing of terror or something like that. Meribeth and I decided to start on the swing. They put you in a harness and attach you to some hooks. Then they slowly lift you up off the ground about 10 stories high. The guy running it was a real comedian, and he kept telling us how unsafe it was. When we left to go up he said good luck and if you die I'll give you your money back. haha...funny. So we made our way up to the top of the apparatus. About half way up Mr. comedian dropped us down a little bit to scare us. I thought he actually did drop us so it scared me a little bit. Well we finally got all the way to the top and there is this little draw string you have to pull when you're up there that disconnects you. We decided I would be the one to pull it when we got up there. So the guy counted to 1 and I pulled the string and we went well swinging. We plummeted towards the earth super fast and then started swinging right back up. It was an amazing feeling. You fell like you're flying. It was great. Not as good as bungy jumping but good.
Next we were on our way to the sling shot. This one you sit in it and he lowers you into the ground and then lets you go and you go flying through the air, again about 10 stories high. So we jump in. The worker goes into the same routine as the last guy. He said he was suprised anyone is coming today after the big accident they had yesterday. just trying to scare us. He said do you want me to count to 5 or 3. We were in the process of answering when he let go and we went flying up. It was really cool, you shoot up really fast and then bounce and twirl in the air for a while. The views are beautiful. We got a DVD of the ride because our faces were classic when he let us go. We were shocked and you could see it in our faces. haha.
There was one more ride there that we well I wanted to go on. I wish my sister was there because it took me some persuading to get someone to go with me and i know Julie would have jumped right on with me. Brewster finally decided to go with me. This one you jump in the seats and there is 2 pairs of seats on each end. It basically just spins you around backwards and forwards. The views at the top were spectacular. you could see the coast on one side and a river on the other. It was beautiful. The ride was fun but not as good as the others. Meribeth didn't want to go on it because she said it wouldn't make her feel good.
We got 3 free shirts along with the rides. It was really fun.
After that we decided to get some lunch and we went to a cowboy type place. It was great. We had a fun little day, just Meribeth, me, Louie, and Brewster.
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