Maeghan and William are off doing rides. The rides are about to close down. It’s almost 5. They are having what they call a market again tonight. Just a bunch of food trucks but we have seen a couple we haven’t seen before so we might stay. More expensive food. I just had some fried zucchini which was basically a bowl of grease with some flavourless aioli on it. Didn’t really taste of zucchini. We didn’t finish it, it was that bad.
I went on the Sky Voyager again with Maeghan. William didn’t want to go. We really enjoy that ride. It seemed louder and a bit more bumpy this time. Don’t know if we were just closer to the speakers or they have made changes. Still the same ride but there was something different this time. Not going to get a chance to ride it again today as everything is about to close and I don’t want to ride without the kids. It’s about the only thing I ride these days. I’d like to do roller coasters but I don’t fit in the seats and it’s been so long, I am not sure I could handle it. We might see before the season is over.
I don’t know if it is holidays or they have made improvements, but there seem to be a lot more street shows today. I complained about it last time, the lack of shows but I am sure they never read that complaint. They must have all this planned and this is the time of year they bring it out. Not great shows but you can see they are trying. Not knowing they were going to be here, we didn’t get to see a lot of them but we would occasionally see some performers doing stuff. It seemed like it was pretty good.
Most of the rides are back open. Only two are closed and we wouldn’t be riding those anyway. The train is back running and it looks all new and shiny. We had to wait in line to get on, which is unusual as it is usually just walk up and get on the next train. Maybe they used to run two so there was more chances to get on. Today they only have one train running. Other than me bashing my head while getting on, it was a good ride. Just goes around the park. There is a stop back at the back of the park near the animals but I think it would be faster to walk there than take the train. We just rode it because we like to ride the train. We went all the way around and came back to where we started. It takes about 20 minutes round trip.
This being winterfest, they have winter things. There is an ice slide where you slide a tiny hill in an inner tube. There were only little kids on it and William decided he was way too big for it. Maeghan didn’t even go look at it.
We thought they were supposed to have some other things but we haven’t found them. Other than the ice skating. You have to reserve a time for ice skating and I saw why when we were there. The ‘ice’ was really crowded. We had a 12:15 time to go and there must have been 100 people on a little bitty fake ice rink. I think it was that plastic stuff I have seen before but if it was, they have really improved it. It was almost like real ice. I say almost because the skates were so dull, I am not sure if it was the ice or the skate that made it very hard to control yourself. Kept sliding sideways all the time.
It could be I haven’t skated in about 20 years but I was fairly ok with it, just felt like I couldn’t keep straight or something. I wasn’t going to try stopping because the skates did not have any real grip and I was afraid with all the kids, I might not be able to turn it stop in time to avoid them. So I stayed pretty slow and didn’t try anything fancy or anything. I tried skating backward once but too many kids and not comfortable with the feeling if the skates. I did find that when I went off to rest once, I really tightened my skates and it was much better on the ice. But by that time, I was too tired and my ankles were starry to hurt so I only did a couple of laps and then gave it up for the day. I’m not sure if I would go back. I enjoyed it but my back and my ankles are still hurting, plus the headache I still have from bashing my head might convince me to not do it again, or very often if I do.
Maeghan wasn’t very good at it. She only made one lap but I think it might have been better if I had tightened her skates also. The big problem was all the people so you had to keep a constant awareness of people falling or almost falling all around you so it made it hard to concentrate on your skating. She said she liked it but it took her 20 minutes to get around once so she got off and left. She did want to go back after a rest but she had already taken her skates off so it was too much trouble to do it again.
William was ok. The last time we went skating, many years ago, we were amazed at how good he was. He wasn’t that good this time. He did make it around several times and he only fell once. I think it was the bad ice and crummy skates but he had fun so it was worth it.
All in all, it was a good experience. Would have liked more room and better ice and better skates but for a free thing, it wasn’t bad. They might convince us to go to a real rink again but I am not sure when that will happen. It might be fun but with a longer session, they would probably get bored after a while. Skating is fun but it is better if you have friends or something with you and neither of the kids have friends that would enjoy skating, or I don’t think they do.
It’s getting cold now so I think I might be going. Too cold and too loud for me to continue. We have been sitting at the tables in the market area but now the musicians have started and it is very very loud. And, apparently, they are trying to find someone to light the heaters, which is one of the reasons we are sitting here next to one of them. It’s probably around 10 degrees right now, so it is cold. And that is centigrade so it’s not as bad as it could be but it is still cold.
They just tried to blow us up because the lady did not know how to light the heater and when I told her to turn the gas on, she did but then could not light it and when it did light, it exploded. But it’s on now, so maybe it will get warm.
I’m going to go anyway. I still need to tell you about Maeghan’s school and William’s attempts at work but since this is a live blog, that will have to wait.
So, until next time
Later
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