I’ll just start anew. But now I see this is not formatting correctly so it’s continued progression is in question. I am on my phone and it is not jumping to the line I am typing so I can’t see all the misspelled words. I’ll have to go back and re-read it to find out and that risks finding other conceptional errors. That’s a situation we don’t want to get into as I believe the entire blog is a conceptual error. Did I spell that right. I don’t think so, but I won’t know until I go back and re-read this. Seems like a catch 19 issue. I’d say catch 22 but that is a copyright issue and I am too old to go to jail.
Let’s see. I think I have the second half of the EKKA to talk about. Hopefully, it will be much shorter. But I doubt it.
We had just had lunch, I believe. Or some kind of mid-day meal. We had also desperately sought a toilet but we can skip that part this time. Our next goal was to find the showbags. That’s a really big thing here in Austria. Showbags. I think it is everyone but it might be just a my family thing, or from Juanita’s family. I know when I was a kid, we never got any showbags. We never got any rides either. We were happy just getting to go. Probably a money issue, but we were happy just being there and looking. I’m sure we got something, probably just fair food but that was good for us.
Now, everyone has to have a showbag, and usually more than one. We set aside enough money to do that but it is the buying of them for all the people who are not with us that kind of irks me. I’d rather pay for them to get in and go to the show with us than spend meaningless money on showbags. Plus, there is the carrying them around the rest of the day where I think we should wait until the end of the day before we buy them. But since I am no longer required to carry them, it’s not so bad. So on with the show.
We could not figure out where the building was. Maeghan and I had seen it the previous day from the hospital where we had taken Juanita. We knew it was near the big wheel but we couldn’t even see the wheel.
I had to leave this entry yesterday. I was waiting on Juanita to get back from a Drs appointment and she came back in the middle of me typing. So I left it. Now I am getting back to it on my normal day, while at work, so I should be able to finish soon. Or relatively soon as I am about to go get coffee. It's always something. I'll continue the riveting tale of lost youth and wandering spirits when I return.
I'm back. Didn't take too long. Sorry to leave you hanging on my very perplexing point.
We had to ask someone where the showbag building was. They said you had to go down under the railroad tracks and then into the big ride area. It was further along from where we had been sitting for the toilets. I have no idea how that worked or how we had missed it when we came in on the train. When you get off the train, you go under a walkway and into the show. Apparently, there is another platform further down where you get on the train to get back. It is under that railroad that you have to go to get to the other ride area. I have no idea why we could not see it from where we got off but we found it.
The way the showbag building works is all, or most, of the showbags are at different booths in the building. I am thinking that's not such a good idea. What seems to happen is that every booth sells the same things. So you walk between them, and since it is very crowded you barely get to move, and look at the same things over and over again. Sometimes, there is something different but not often. It is all the same.
I have to say at this point that I was not going to make it for the rest of the day. I was exhausted and feeling rather poorly. The wheelchair in the picture is for me. We used it mostly to carry the bags but it was there in case I started to get bad. I was really getting bad at this point. I did not want to let anyone have to push me around. It was very hilly and lots of things to run over so I was not going to ride around in the chair. At the showbag building, I decided they could all go through the building and I would sit in the chair and rest a while. Juanita wasn't happy about it, she said she could push me, but I just wanted to sit and do nothing for a while. After they left, I decided to roll myself over to what I thought was a coffee shop but turned out to be the grilled cheese sandwich shop. Another side note, at the show, they have a special deal where they sell grilled cheese sandwiches for a ridiculously cheap price, $2.50. Sounds like a bargain compared to everything else but since they make so many, they pre-make them and they are cold when you get them, so it wasn't that big a bargain. But it wasn't bad.
William was the first to come out and find me. I told him to go find the others and tell them where I was. They eventually all came back, more quickly than I expected. That is when they explained that all the booths were the same and they could find nothing new so they just walked through and came back. Each of them got one bag, plus a couple of others for those that were not there. All in all, we only spent about half an hour in there where I expected them to be there for a couple of hours, mainly just trying to make their way through all the people. But now they had returned and they each had their bags, so we were ready to go out to the real rides.
I had pre-purchased ride tickets, as I think I explained before. The rides were expensive so doing that was not going to save us any money. I heard Shayla say she wanted to ride the big stick. Maeghan and William were not going to get on that so they went looking for something to ride. Once again, I decided I was too tired to walk around, so they went off on their own. Juanita pushed me through the showbag building, to my complaints about just wanting to sit there. We went all the way to the other end but could not find a table or anything for her to sit at. I told the kids, via text, where we were. I found a shady spot and Juanita went to meet them somewhere because Maeghan had found a ride but needed someone to watch her wheelchair while she went on it. They were supposed to bring the chair back to me but that never happened. Probably a good thing as while I was sitting there, I fell asleep. I am not sure how long I slept but I think it was at least half an hour if not a full hour. William came back to me twice for something, I don't remember what anymore. I asked him where everyone was and after the second time, I decided to go try to find them. While I was getting up from the chair, several people came by and asked me if I was ok and if they could help. I am not sure why they were asking that but maybe there was some reason.
I walked all the way down to the entrance to the area where we had come in before. I found them all sitting on a bench down there. They still wanted to go on a couple of rides so I sat there and waited for them to finish. Shayla and William went on a log ride. A portable log ride. I have never seen such a thing. How do they do that and keep it safe. I guess there is not a lot of water in it but you go up two fairly large hills and slide down into a pool and water weighs a lot so I am not sure how that was safe. Maeghan did something but I forget what it was. They all eventually came back. I actually was feeling better from my nap, so I was now walking again, leaning on and pushing the wheelchair. It was getting near 5:00, so we decided to find something to eat before the show started 6:30.
I think I mentioned that I had food tickets also. While we were having lunch, in the food pavilion which turned out to be a great disappointment but I will try to refrain from going into that, we did not find any place where you could actually use the coupons. I asked several places and they had no idea what they were. They had not heard of them. Kind of strange. The tickets did say only at participating booths but I would think they should have least have heard of them. Nope, no one had. I was beginning to think there was only one or two places that might accept them and we would have to search around to find them. I ended up asking one of the information booths where it was they were being used. It turns out, it was the section of the show we were currently in. Near the stage I mentioned before and near the food pavilion. We had already walked through this area but I had not noticed that all the food places had little signs on them that said we accept the food card, which is what I had. So we set out looking for a place to sit so we could eat.
We eventually found a place inside one of the buildings in front of the coffee shop. The places that were accepting the card were the most expensive places for food. Cheapest thing was about $18, so the card was not going to go far. There were about a dozen different places, all selling a different type of food, so everyone had to decide what they wanted and I would go get it. We ended up getting some fairly decent food, even if it was very expensive. I wanted to just stay there and keep eating but we couldn't afford that and the night time show was going to start soon and we needed to go find seats. We did end up going back through there on the way out after the show and we had a couple of things, but I need to talk about the show and this entry is way too long once again.
So I am going to end this now and talk about the show in the next entry. Three entries all about the same thing. That should never happen but once I start typing, I can't seem to stop and keep going on and on about wild tangents. Not entertaining, but lengthy, so there is that. But I should be going, even though it is only noon and I don't leave work until 3:00. I have no idea what I am going to do between now and then. Work doesn't seem like an option but you never know. But I should do something, so I will be going.
So, until next time,
Later
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