First Kiwis to Visit Me

Well it’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted which is not really all that long but I have been up to a bunch of stuff in that ensuing time. First and foremost I had my first Kiwi friends visit. Was great to see both Emily and Chris for 5 days before they took off in their Blood Red Rental Chrysler PT Cruiser for a great few week road trip from my place, through Las Vegas, to the Grand Canyon, up through Utah to finish in either Idaho or Montana before Chris competes in an Adventure Race.

They were not here for a weekend which was bad timing but I managed to take them to some yummy places for dinner, and on a Mtb ride in the local hills, as well as a little climb up to Forrest Falls.















The highlight however was taking the day off and heading to Six Flags Magic Mountain. A theme park which can only be described as one thing… Roller Coaster Mania!!! It’s essentially all we did for the whole day after a large 100 mile drive out there. Man I still cannot get over how many people on the freeways are in their cars by themselves. Despite the traffic we had a pretty clean run out there as we could use the single transit lane (you need 2 or more people in your car to take advantage of this lane). So here we are zipping along at 70miles while 4 or 5 lanes of traffic right next to us with single people (or dumb people) were chugging along at 30 miles. Go figure aye…

Anyhow I have a few pics of Magic Mountain and a video also. I was lots more brave after getting use to big rides on the Gold Coast earlier in the year, and with the addition of my small camera, well I had the guts to hang onto in on a few of the rides. I loved ‘The Riddler’, a standup coaster and the ‘Viper’ with 7 loops (both have video). Well in fact I liked most of them bar a very tame water ride. By far the scariest was the last ride we did with a line of 45 mins. It was called ‘Tatsu’ and is essentially a lie down coaster. It’s so scary because you are at the mercy of the machine completely the way it holds on to you, also because you cannot see where you are going. Freaky but real fun. It was the only one that I actually did not want it to last longer. No video of this sorry bar a little from the ground. J One thing missing was themed rides. They are often surprising amounts of fun like the ‘Scooby Doo’ ride on the Gold Coast at Movieworld, however I suspect all these rides and no doubt better ones are at Universal Studios.











Anyhow I had a great time with Em and Chris and I hope to entertain more of you with the delights of an oversized, overpopulated, smog ridden metropolis again soon J. Who will be next to visit me???