more carnival fun
i apologize for the late holiday post. blogger was doing all sorts of funky things that day, including not posting anything i wrote. it finally posted today.
anyhow, the rest of the weekend was fun and relaxing. tennis and mexican food on friday with ry. saturday was spent lounging out in bed all day. j and i finally got our lazy asses up around 7 to take advantage of some sale they were having at macys for bedding and pillows. more reasons for us to sleep. go figure.
around 11, j, bles, my cousin and i found ourselves at the meadowlands fair. i was so excited that i was finally going to get to ride the zipper. the ride was all the way on the other side of the lot, opposite of the entrance. so when we finally get there, i look up at the ride and it wasnt the ride at all. it was some dinky wannabe ferris wheel. boo.
anyway, we bought 80 tickets to split between the 4 of us. j thought we should get the 110 tickets but the rest of us thought that might be too much.
so we spotted another ride and waited to see how the ride worked before we spent our limited amount of tickets on them. sick. it was this ride called the tango and the seat kinda looks like that batman ride were your legs hang off the roller coaster. anyway, the motion is like a fan but it spins you around upside down while spinning sideways. i had slippers on and i swear that my shoes were going to fly off.
and usually i am so good on rides like that. the sicker, the better. i can hang with the best of them.
but this ride. forget it. halfway through i wanted it to stop. i felt sick and surprisingly scared. scared because i actually felt like i was going to slide out of the harness and plummet my way to death.
after that ride, bles thought that we didnt have enough tickets. if you calculated it, we all would only be able to ride 3 rides. the second ride we rode was similar to the first except for the fact that you were actually sitting. a little slower, but it made me feel more nauseous.
the third ride was recommended by michelle...and i wanted to try it because it was her favorite ride. and it looked a little tame. and we all looked a little sick. so we made our way to the crazy mouse. its this little roller coaster that fits four and it goes around this baby roller coaster track. no big deal. so we thought. the shit spins. and spins. and jars you around for a while. and spins. dizziness and nausea.
afterwards we needed to rest...the old fogies that we were.
j and i ate while bles battled her chonkiness. we all admitted we felt sick and tired from the rides and came to the realization that we are old. old, old, old. we couldnt hack more than three rides. what a bunch of losers. and we thought 40 tickets wasnt going to be enough. after the crazy mouse, we didnt want to ride anything anymore. and it was only 12:30!
so we sat for a while and ridiculed each other until we gathered enough energy to walk around. i wanted to play some games. and there was this one game that you have to hit the gopher on the head with this hammer and the first person to get to 150 points wins. i was so good at this game back when we all used to go to that chuck-e-cheese wannabe place with the singing puppets next to riverside mall.
i lost.
and was very upset.
they walked over to the next game with the ladder that you had to climb up. and they were watching for about 5 minutes or so and i kept looking at the damn gopher game with such anger and resentment. i exclaimed, "i have to win. i need to go back" and kept mumbling under my breath while walking back. i could hear them cracking up behind me.
there were two five year olds i was playing against. i guess the dad joined in when he saw me. then j decided he would play to give me better odds at winning.
i missed one. i remember that. and then i heard the buzzer sound. and i got really sad. i looked up to see who won, and it was ME!
yahooo!!!!
i remember jumping up and down and the five year olds walked away with hung heads. who cares? yeay for me. (oh, i'm just kidding) j was pissed that he lost, but he was smoking a cigarette and ashing and playing at the same time. you need some extraordinary concentration for this.
i picked this velvet-esque green frog with a purple cape and a white fur collar with a gold crown and a heart that said "kiss me." the guy running the stand said, "you want that prize? ive been trying to get rid of those ugly things all week." whatever. i think its fancy.
afterwards we made our way around the back of the fair when some guy running the pool table games pulls j aside and swindles him into playing. j puts $20 on the table and says that he's not leaving til that money was gone. mind you, these games are not cheap. it was $5 a game, but you win those insanely huge dolls the size of a three-year old.
there are three balls that you have to knock in consecutively. so he lost the first and second game. and then the third. and then the last. but the guy pulls him aside again and offers to give him back $5 and get a prize if j wins another game. i think he liked j.
anyhow, he won the last game. yeay for me...i got this toddler sized dog like the dog in men in black. i havent named him yet, but he's suffocating in my trunk as i speak. i havent found the opportunity to unload him from the car.
sunday was more lounging and hardgrove. yummmmmy. and then we got home and watched bachlorettes in alaska. absolutely hilarious. we have been keeping up with that show because we are always home during that time slot and there seems to be nothing else on tv. anyhow, only two girls out of the six or seven were actually picked and the rest of them got dissed. on national television. what sucked was the guys didnt explain why they didnt propose to the girls. just that the girl was a wonderful person and they were lucky to have experienced a person such as them and good luck with future endeavors, blah, blah blah.
none of the girls cried. which is what i was waiting for. oh well.
11:16 AM
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