General topic sharing what interesting place you’re at today.
Are they playing in the shadow of the coasters?
They play and then ride the coasters all night.
Not my team. I do spring and fall 12U right now with my younger son and summer baseball (August-September) with Joe. He is in the back row of that picture with his blonde hair and big grin. This was his regular season team and to be honest it was a complete nightmare. They were successful but the head coach was terrible. Joe still first plays for other teams. We drove up to Hershey PA where Joe guest played two games Saturday and then after the games we left around 5 PM to go to Sandusky (home of Callaghan Auto Parts) to play in a week long tournament.
His record on Saturday speaks for itself. (Also they misspelled his name)
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Going to take Gibson to breakfast to celebrate his first birthday. He loves pancakes.
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I went and did Airsoft today at a kids birthday party my 11 year old son Sam was invited to. Parents were allowed to play.
Things I learned.
Airsoft is not soft, it hurts worse than paintball. There were people bleeding.
I am old and not a soldier, but damn I lit people up.
I found that if I holed up in a good corner, people would walk by and not notice me and I could get multiple shots off on people before they even knew it.
Airsoft people are intense. They take it like real military. I acted more like I was playing a video game and did well as a result.
Also, it hurts, did I mention that. One of the dads is a cop and he and I got into a shoot out both lighting each other up from about 3 feet away and both have multiple welts.
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I’d like to try going downhill on one of those mining cars on that Tramway Trail
Reminds me of the Alpine Slide at a place called Action Park from way, way back…but less dangerous.
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I was injured quite severely on that Alpine Slide at Action Park.
As well as the friends I was with.
I’m sure you know the story - fast lane, barely any brakes, and wooooosh… fell off and slid on the slide itself causing multiple slide burns on my knees and shoulder.
That place, as has been well documented, could be an absolute blast of a time - until it wasn’t!!!
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I lived in the area when I was growing up, so I would spend a lot of my summers there and winters when it was a ski resort. The lodge had a pretty good arcae. There wasn’t one family member who didn’t get hurt at that place, especially on the alpine slide. Me, I broke my back skiing there when I was ten. I fell and was used as a ski jump by the guy behind me. Still, got up and waked the rest of the way down. That was the Action park way!
I tell, ya, everywhere else in the world if a father wanted his son to become a man, he took him to a cat house when he came of age. In the NY, NJ and Penn tri-state area, he would take his kid to Action Park. Fan fact, that documentary on MAX was very accurate. I remember some of the people who were interviewed that used to work there. I would see them all the time. Probably at least 90% of that documentary was right on the nose. The place was completely nuts. I moved just before the upside-down waterslide ride was completed. I really wanted to try that one out.
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This is the perfect summation.
I can’t even imagine a place like this in anywhere in the world now - even in an unregulated environment/country
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Those days are gone for good, but they were fun… If f you survived.
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