I Christen Thee... Nate
July 18 2005
I'm Nate and I'm an addict for this sort of thing. It's unfortunate. I could be spending my time more productively elsewhere, but oh well. My sister and several of my friends, both old and new, are on here so I thought I'd be plankton and go with the flow.
This weekend was incredible! I went on an AO trip to Louisville, KY. We went up on Friday afternoon and came back on Sunday afternoon. I spent 12 hours at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom (minus the hour or so for lunch outside the freakishly-expensive-food park). I met a few people that I never really knew or knew well. I hope I didn't scare them too badly! I think I may have gained a few new friends, which is very nice.
I've been to KY Kingom a few times before so, as fun as they were, none of the rides were particularly surprising (I've ridden all the big ones at least a half dozen times before this trip), but the highlight of the park was my trip in the 200' high SkyCoaster. I got a brave (read: crazy) soul to go with me since I wouldn't go by myself (You ROCK Rachel!!). On our way up, we were talking and quite jittery (as you might expect), then one of the cables popped! It was just one of the carabiners settling, but it did nothing to settle us. I was extremely tempted to pull the ripcord right then so we'd have less distance to fall. But, I held off and listened very intently for any further signs of trouble. Luckily, it turned out to be nothing and we made it to the top. We had just a second to enjoy/dread the view. Then we heard it, "3...2...1...FLY!". I didn't even think and pulled the ripcord. The trip was incredible! We got up to about 65mph from what I found on the internet. Ask Rachel about it. I will definately do it again!
Well, it's 2:20AM and I've got to be at work at 10:00AM so I'm off to bed. I'll write more about the trip later. Goodnight.
This weekend was incredible! I went on an AO trip to Louisville, KY. We went up on Friday afternoon and came back on Sunday afternoon. I spent 12 hours at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom (minus the hour or so for lunch outside the freakishly-expensive-food park). I met a few people that I never really knew or knew well. I hope I didn't scare them too badly! I think I may have gained a few new friends, which is very nice.
I've been to KY Kingom a few times before so, as fun as they were, none of the rides were particularly surprising (I've ridden all the big ones at least a half dozen times before this trip), but the highlight of the park was my trip in the 200' high SkyCoaster. I got a brave (read: crazy) soul to go with me since I wouldn't go by myself (You ROCK Rachel!!). On our way up, we were talking and quite jittery (as you might expect), then one of the cables popped! It was just one of the carabiners settling, but it did nothing to settle us. I was extremely tempted to pull the ripcord right then so we'd have less distance to fall. But, I held off and listened very intently for any further signs of trouble. Luckily, it turned out to be nothing and we made it to the top. We had just a second to enjoy/dread the view. Then we heard it, "3...2...1...FLY!". I didn't even think and pulled the ripcord. The trip was incredible! We got up to about 65mph from what I found on the internet. Ask Rachel about it. I will definately do it again!
Well, it's 2:20AM and I've got to be at work at 10:00AM so I'm off to bed. I'll write more about the trip later. Goodnight.
