Checkin’in
So that school that was about to start is now 3 weeks in, and we’re finding our routine in the mornings again – it starts for me when I wake up to my “Fighting Alarm” – these are Paul and Cameron’s morning arguments that wake me up, usually involving something about cereal.
Cameron is not, what one would call…agreeable…in the morning. And Paul, really really likes cereal and has certain cereal rules that must be followed always because on account of that he’s insane. Then Cameron’s gone until 3:30 and then he comes home and we fight about homework and guitar and dinner and then off to bed! Griffin is back at school after the German’s generous 3 week holiday and he’s doing just fine (if fine is getting in trouble every single day). I’ve given up on Griffin I think and decided just to embrace the idea that the child will someday be writing us nice letters from prison. I find this freeing and zennish. I wish him the very best.
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We celebrated Labor Day by going to our annual amusement park – we picked Holiday Park which has a good mix of young child rides and medium child rides and… what’s this? Oh, it’s one big motherfkin roller coaster!! Big FM’s Expedition GeForce – it’s often voted the best coaster in Europe and it’s always in the top ten worldwide, and here it is in this otherwise NOT thrill-oriented park. Other than its wordy title, it’s a no nonsense steel-tracked monster that starts out big and stays that way – 82 degree drop, 75 mph and NO pansy-arse shoulder harness bar – just a lap belt and bar – this amounts to maximum feelings of butterflies in the belly. The whole coaster is just ups and downs of varying degrees – no whirlpools, no neck-breaking direction changes or rough tracks – it’s so smooth it’s almost silent. I’ve never been on anything like it. Someone that really loved life designed this coaster.
Ooooh! BigFM Expedition GeForce [pauses for breath] might have to be a destination if i can get myself over that way! Sounds a lot like the Millenium Force at Cedar Point, which is pure joy on a steel track. no inversions. no corkscrews. Just fast, open-car, flying! Hope your little guys enjoyed it – mine were older before i coaxed them into becoming rabid coaster junkies!