I Almost Died

Yep, it's true. I almost died on Friday. My roommates and I went to 6 Flags Great Adventure last week. It rained, it was awesome, we had fun and we went on the Kingda-Ka....


It looks like a giant tombstone, doesn't it?


So, here's what it does:

It shoots you straight from 0 to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds. You travel up vertically at a 90 degree angle of the Earth and then over a deceptively tiny hill and then back down vertically at another 90 degree angle to the Earth. Did I mention that it's 456 feet tall (45 stories)? Well it is. It's also terrifying.

My roommates and I all thought that we were going to die and we had a blast. Best. Ride. Ever.

I did not, however, die with the coming of the Rapture. I notice that we're ALL still here. No one has ascended and no one is writhing in any more agony than usual and I definitely don't see anyone doing so in the mud. I guess one of two things happened.

1. The Rapture did happen, only no one ascended, including those holier-than-thou individuals in Times Square. So, I guess the "writing in agony" bit is a slow burn? It comes on slowly?

2. The Rapture did NOT happen. We're all still here, un-ascended, living the rest of our lives until the Zombie Apocalypse or the implosion of the Sun happens (both more likely to end the world than the Rapture).

I leave you humming "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Misérables.

Talk about a "Great Adventure"

I went to Six Flags over New Jersey this week and it was a-mazing. I haven't been to a theme park since I was in high school. I've missed roller coasters, that's for sure.

IPJ invited me to go with him and another friend, so we bought a couple of bus tickets and headed on out to Great Adventure. We ended up staying there the entire day. It was a lot of fun being on a roller coaster again. I forgot how much I love the feeling of near death. I will admit, the first ride we went on scared the crap out of me. I screamed the whole ride. It wasn't even normal screaming it was me screaming things like "Oh my God!!!" and "I'm gonna die!!!!" But I'm still posting so clearly I didn't die.

Our favorite ride of the day was NITRO. It was pretty awesome and we rode it four times. Two of those times we rode in the front. The video that follows is the front car perspective of that ride:



I want to go again and I'm thinking my roller coaster addiction might have resumed. I'm also thinking that anyone who would willing subject themselves to a possible death by roller coaster is just crazy. I'd have to count myself in the bunch though.

Go to Six Flags (or if you're in Ohio, go to Cedar Point, because it beats Six Flags' coolness).

I leave you humming Patsy Cline's "Crazy."