Thursday, November 10, 2005
The Fun is in the Details
Yep. It's been a really long time. Sorry!
So, to catch you up a bit, C-Los and I went to Houston, TX for the Colts' Appreciation Trip. It was the weekend of October 21. It rocked. (Thanks again Mom and Dad!)
Highlights from the trip include:
C-Los whaling her ankle on the water slide, and me talking her into going on it again the next night anyway.
Me getting crapped on by a bird while trying to relax in the hot tub.
C-Los' embarassment at juvenile males' commentary. (I like her trick better!)
Me calling Dad and demanding that he have something done about the roof at Reliant Stadium. (They wouldn't open it.)
But the best part of the trip by far happened at Rainforest Cafe.
Okay, so they had a dinner for us at the Rainforest Cafe. It was buffet style, with an open bar! (Whoa!) Their special drink for the night was the Colt-a-Rita. (It was blue.)
We were informed that there was a ride attached to the Cafe, and we could ride it as many times as we liked for free. They had dressed it up for Halloween, and I was all about it! C-Los, on the other hand, had to be talked into it. Well, after (finally) finding someone who told us that the ride was PG-13 at its worst, and that we could take our Colt-a-Ritas with us, we were sold.
We got into this raft thing that looks just like the round rafts at amusement parks where they dump copious amounts of water on you. Same idea here, sans water.
That ride was freaking scary. The only thing PG-13 about it was the picture they took of us at the beginning before our raft left. At first everything was okay, because everything was mechanical. Things were popping out at us, but it wasn't very scary. The scary part started to come when our raft brushed the side and started to spin. No way were we letting our backs face what was coming next. So we start seat hopping in an effort to continue facing forward.
Then jitters start to set in. At one point I noticed this skeleton thing that had popped out on the raft that was ahead of us. "Now C-Los, see that skeleton? That's going to pop out at us so don't be scared. You don't have to be scared of that skeleton because... AAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!" Yep, that's right. I screamed.
Then, they threw in people dressed up as scary guys. Well, that was it for C-Los. From that point on she was crouched in the middle of the raft. She alternated between screaming and saying "Dawn, I hate you." Then of course I made everything better when one of the scary guys jumped out at us and I spilled my Colt-a-Rita all over C-Los and the raft. After that the only things that we could manage to do were scream and laugh.
Right after we got off the ride I asked C-Los if she wanted to do it again.
"I hate you."
Ahhhh, friendship.
1 Comments:
D - YOU UPDATED. I want to cry, I'm so happy! Sounds like you managed to make the trip memorable. Hee.
Also, just turn say yes to the "Show word verification for comments" option in the Settings -> Comments section. Buh-bye spam!
Heart,
AmErica
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