Dreamworld, or how to terrify your child.
For Ethan's birthday we took him to Dreamworld. Me, Anth, Aidan and Ethan all went together, whilst Callum was looked after by my Saint of a mother. If Mum hadn't come down and looked after him it would have made it very difficult, and sometimes I don't fully appreciate how much she does for us. She even cooked us dinner tonight. So even though Aidan can be somewhat difficult, he still allowed us all to go on most of the rides together. We went on the old time cars, the log flume ride and got soaked, and walked around the park before we went into the Nickelodeon area so Ethan could go on the Runaway Reptar Roller Coaster.
Whilst Ethan and Anth lined up for that, Aidan decided he wanted to go to Wiggles World. One thing which frustrates me about Dreamworld is that although they have a lot of good rides, their line management is atrocious. It took nearly 15 minutes to get through a queue of about 40 people. It should have taken 3 minutes! To top it off, when we finally got on the Big Red Car ride, about 2 minutes in the ride stopped and all the power went out. After being stuck in there for about 20 minutes, they finally let us out. It may have been a good ride if we got all the way through, and I still have "Beep Beep Chugga Chugga" going through my head.
It was mid afternoon when Ethan decided he wanted to go on some of the scarier rides. The queue for WipeOut looked short, so I asked him if he wanted to go on it. It is one of the park's Big 4 Thrill Rides. In short, it twists and turns you up, down, sideways and upside down whilst your held in via an overhead and chest bracing harness. Not for the faint hearted. But he assured me he'd be fine, and didn't want to not go on it once he committed.
Big mistake. From the moment the harness went down he was petrified. Once the ride started he started screaming "I want Mummy!" which continued until the ride stopped. I spent most of my ride trying to tell him it would be all right over his and everyone else's screaming. When we got off and stopped crying, he said "I'm not going on that again until I'm 16." We went and looked at the ride photo and Anth almost broke into tears at the picture of our terrified child. He doesn't seem to have suffered any ill effects though, and is now soundly fast asleep after a big day.
Ciao for Now, No More Thrill Rides for Ethan Angry Dad.
NB: Blogger is playing up with Photo's, so the pictures from today can't be loaded just yet.
Whilst Ethan and Anth lined up for that, Aidan decided he wanted to go to Wiggles World. One thing which frustrates me about Dreamworld is that although they have a lot of good rides, their line management is atrocious. It took nearly 15 minutes to get through a queue of about 40 people. It should have taken 3 minutes! To top it off, when we finally got on the Big Red Car ride, about 2 minutes in the ride stopped and all the power went out. After being stuck in there for about 20 minutes, they finally let us out. It may have been a good ride if we got all the way through, and I still have "Beep Beep Chugga Chugga" going through my head.
It was mid afternoon when Ethan decided he wanted to go on some of the scarier rides. The queue for WipeOut looked short, so I asked him if he wanted to go on it. It is one of the park's Big 4 Thrill Rides. In short, it twists and turns you up, down, sideways and upside down whilst your held in via an overhead and chest bracing harness. Not for the faint hearted. But he assured me he'd be fine, and didn't want to not go on it once he committed.
Big mistake. From the moment the harness went down he was petrified. Once the ride started he started screaming "I want Mummy!" which continued until the ride stopped. I spent most of my ride trying to tell him it would be all right over his and everyone else's screaming. When we got off and stopped crying, he said "I'm not going on that again until I'm 16." We went and looked at the ride photo and Anth almost broke into tears at the picture of our terrified child. He doesn't seem to have suffered any ill effects though, and is now soundly fast asleep after a big day.
Ciao for Now, No More Thrill Rides for Ethan Angry Dad.
NB: Blogger is playing up with Photo's, so the pictures from today can't be loaded just yet.
posted by Wes at 10:32 pm
2 Comments:
can't wait to see the photos. sounds really fun. glad his sleep wasn't impacted. maybe it was one of those things that you are scared during, but later remember as totally awesome!
Lisa
Oh, I feel for that child !!
I had a similar experience on a ride from the late 70's ( read: not so scary ), but it was AWFUL ! :(
What is it with Qld and their power ? Everytime we're there we experience an interruption/blackout, or it's being reported on the news ....
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