Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As they fly
Passing by
Tumbling through
Loops of sky
To hoot and cry,
They spend the day
Waving high
To Earth defy
As some shake heads
Oh my, oh my
And wonder why…
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Note: These photos are from Canada’s “Wonderland” amusement park in Vaughn, where my family spent a day this past July, high flying and earth-defying while I mostly did the photo-taking and oh-my-why’ing. … 😉 (In the photo above, they are in the three short horizontal lines in free fall on the vertical line, a moment before being turned upside down and sideways and goodness knows what else). It was a delightful day all around (pun?) till I got on one kiddie ride in the afternoon … Now, if you’re into these contraptions, that place is an all out-human-milkshake inventive park, just be warned and don’t be fooled by the miniature height requirements: they start them early and loop-di-doop-whoop-loop even those rides meant for preschoolers. …
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Tourism
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, curves and arches
Na'ama Yehuda 
I would definitely have stayed on the ground!
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I hear ya … 🙂 I don’t mind the heights, it’s the milkshake factor I don’t appreciate (and that my spine REALLY cannot tolerate …) 😉
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I used to love these rides when I was younger, but haven’t ventured near for years… despite we’ve a permanent fairground on the seafront
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We didn’t really go on rides like this when I was growing up, but I don’t think I would have liked the twirly upside-down ones then, either. I certainly WOULD have enjoyed anything involving heights, but not the being milkshaked. Since then, too many things have happened to this spine and body of mine that would make any of these spinny-twisty-upside-downy things totally counter-indicated to my well being (or consciousness, for that matter, probably…) – so, I am the bag-holder and baby-minder and stroller-keeper and photo-taker, and I’m happy enough to tag along without being made into a human centrifuge. … (other than by error, when I did not for the life of me think that a ride for 4 year olds would do the corkscrew and yet … well … it did. Oy. Ouch. Oy vey).
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With me it was the higher, the faster, the more upside down. Then stress hit me. Na, can’t do those rides anymore
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I hear ya. For the body, stress is stress is stress is stress. It doesn’t need more of it when one is working to manage what’s already there.
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I’m through that now, but I don’t invite it. Once is enough
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Wise move, that, IMO! 🙂
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🙂
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I like the roller coaster showing its twists and turns.
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I liked it in … well … principle … 😉 I did NOT wanna be ON it to experience them … 😉
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..משפחה אמיצה יש לך
🙂 … אני הייתי מעדיפה להצטרף ולעזור לך עם התיקים, הפעוטות והצילומים
…במקום להפוך את הגוף והלב
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Yeah. I had plenty of company in the form of other ‘bag holders and baby minders and photo takers’ who had THEIR families in the blender … 😉 We commiserated and shook our heads in disbelief that anyone would do this for FUN.
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🙂
…באמת לא ברור מה הכיף הגדול בסחרור הזה
?סוג של ‘מזוכיזם’? תחושת כוח ויכולת
…לעולם לא הצלחתי לעלות על המניעים באושר הצרוף הזה
…אבל יש את אלו שלא מבינים מה לא ברור לי, וזאת עבורם חוויה והנאה…
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Some people actually ENJOY the vestibular over-stimulation but for many this is tied into how an Adrenaline rush is often followed by the release of endorphins (and with them a sense of well-being and ‘survival’ or ‘escape from danger’). Basically, it can ‘feel good’ to get through it and the feeling can become a bit addictive (so people want to feel the ‘high’ of it again). Not my thing, but chemically explainable.
There are those who seek a ‘high’ by breaking the law and risking being caught. Some take drugs.
Going on a roller-coaster and having one’s physiology respond to the perceived danger may be a socially acceptable way of tempting fate and stimulating ‘feel good’ systems.
For others, stress is stress and their don’t enjoy this type of it.
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!!תודה על ההסבר המפורט
…סוף סוף אני מבינה יותר את המניעים לחוויה או לכיף
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Thanks, Frank! “great” is a matter of opinion … 😉 (just kidding–it’s a lotta-fun place, whether you loopdy-loop or just watch the loopy people…) 😉
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I don’t want to push you forward to take the big leap and hop on those rides to have a time of your life but you can try out this simple trick to ride on them and get off with your mind and heart intact:
1. Sit on the ride
2. If you take pictures from your smartphone, then turn on the camera app
3. As soon as ride starts up, focus your entire sight on your phone’s display
4. Don’t divert your sight anywhere else. Just keep looking at the display
5. For fun part, hit the record button 🙂
You can try this out on smaller rides first and if you feel okay with it, then sky is the limit 😀
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Thanks but no thanks … I can take PERFECTLY good photos from the ground below … 😉
You (and my family members whose systems enjoy this kind of milkshaking) can go on the rides.
BTW, the sky is not the issue (I’m not afraid of heights), it is the up-down-sideways-loop-shake-rattle-plummet-twist-twirl that is …
🙂
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Hahaha!
I can understand 😀
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😀
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