Sorry everyone, I haven’t been able to post for the last few days. I was off on a mini-vacation.

My brother-in-law and his wife, my wife and I had been to Orlando, Florida this weekend. We went to Universal Studios and the “Isle Of Adventure” theme parks over there. It was loads of fun, there are lots of rides, but the most interesting of them all are the roller-coasters.

Sitting on a Roller-Coaster always cracks me up. Rationally thinking, it is very safe – There has never been an accident and there is no way you are going to get hurt. But that doesn’t stop the voices in my head from screaming, in chorus, as I go up the roller-coaster:

“YOU’RE GOING TO DIE! GET OFF, YOU FOOL! YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!”

At Universal Studios, they have this roller-coaster called “The Hulk”. This is the most ridiculously scary roller coaster I’ve been on. Most roller-coasters will take you to the top on a chain-sort of thing and drop you from there. But not this one.

This thing actually shoots you up, at full blast. It actually accelerates going upwards, crushing you against the seat. This thing goes from 0 to 60 kmph, upwards at a 45-degree angle in 2 SECONDS!!!There’s nothing scarier than getting shot out into the sky, momentarily feeling zero-G when you’re at the top of the coaster, and then falling straight down – from 8 stories high. I think the voices in my head fainted at that point.

The next 120 seconds or so of the ride were a complete blur. I was screaming with as much power as my lungs could muster as the roller-coaster threw me around, turned me up-side down and thoroughly mixed all the pizza and ice-cream in my stomach.

Note to self: Really bad idea to go on roller-coaster after eating.

As soon as the ride ended, I was so glad that I was alive that I wanted to get down and kiss the ground and thank the heavens and the stars for the gift of life. My wife, on the other hand was like ‘Whoooo!!! That was fun!!! Let’s do that again!“

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