Pleasantly Surprised!!!!!

Jul 02, 2013

 

Pleasantly Surprised For those of you close to the Washington DC area you will know about Kings Dominion, for the rest of you its great amusement park. I will keep this short but I went 2 weeks ago, for the first time in 11 yrs. I had one of the best times of my life this time. I love the rush of a coaster and I have not been on one in 11yrs. With the height and weight it was a no go. If you couldn’t get the bars to click 3 times or the lap belt didn’t connect or you needed an extension you were sitting on the sideline. Well I went this time and I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED!!! The weight loss has made a big difference. I was able to ride any ride I wanted to. I still had my concerns it’s still hard to see myself as small enough to ride the rides but I was able to. I had my Boss with me and he is what I would call a motivator. He believes with reckless abandonment that you (anyone) can do what you put your mind to. He has been in my corner since I stated that I wanted to have WLS. So on this trip to the park he wasted no time pumping me up to get on the best ride in the park “The Intimidator”. This was the first ride I had been on yrs and it was more than just a ride it was the life lesson and accomplishment. It paralleled so many things in my life the ups and downs, twist and turns, fast and slow times. At the end of the ride I was Pleasantly Surprised I made it without a scratch. The rest of the day was a breeze until the last ride which too had meaning in the end. The drop Zone it takes you straight up into the air 275 feet then lets you free fall back down. This type of ride was in fact the very last ride I had attempted to get on yrs. ago. I can still see the shame on the kid’s face that had to tell me that I was too big to ride. I laughed it off and said “I didn’t really want to ride anyway” and waited for my friends to get off. That was the last time I went to an amusement park. So me my Boss and Co-worker joined together and got on. Again I am scared crazy but I couldn’t back out now the world was watching (well not the world just the group).  We went up my eyes were closed so tight I didn’t see the beauty in the ride. I peeped out a few times and before I knew it the ride was over. I got off and realized that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and hopped on again this time with my eyes wide open to see. I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED at what I saw - LIFE IN A NEW LIGHT, LIFE WITH UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES!!!

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