One of her biggest wishes of this second day at Universal Studios was that “Mama would wise up and get the heck on the ride I want to go on with her.” Well, she didn’t say it like that but she did repeatedly say she wanted me to ride with her.
She had been on the ride twice already and still she clutched my hand. So.shhh.īack to the ride and anxiety at hand. *You weren’t supposed to see a SeaWorld photo yet. (that last one wasn’t on the warning sign)Īnyway. The same tunnel that Jaws broke into in Jaw 3. More signs warned of skipping the ride if you get motion sick (I don’t), get dizzy (well, a little), are pregnant (heck no), fear accelerated speed (yes), fear climbing (no), fear dinosaurs (sometimes), have high blood pressure or heart conditions (don’t think so), or get ridiculously anxious about seemingly small things, while feeling no fear at all of shark and eel-filled tunnels. Perhaps, their imaginations weren’t even as keen as mine was. Then again, the people who made this ride made “Jurassic Park.” Without enough time to get eaten by an animatronic T-Rex. What happened during the other half of that hidden loop of the flying dinosaur ride? Spinning? Speeding? Falling? Climbing? I mean, what, really? I had stood in line long enough to see people go off on their merry way, only to come back two minutes later.
None of that mattered because I had seen the warning signs that said, “This is a glider-style ROLLER COASTER.” And I had only seen half of the ride when I photographed Cassidy and Scarlet on it. And that my daughter had already been on this ride twice with Cassidy. I had a lot of time to suss out my ride peers, and even to realize that many of them were around four to six-years-old. And the family behind me had to leave because of an unfortunate urine incident. It didn’t help that I saw two kids in front of me get spooked and turn back around.
The line was long and I had ample time to chicken out.
What has me quaking in my boots? Might be something you did when you were ten. As Cassidy says, “I’m all for the eradication of fear.”Īnd I give you permission to laugh at me during and after you read this post, but I think maybe you’ll understand that we all fear different scenarios and experiences, and different levels and layers of those experiences.
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