Luna-tics...

Our Saturday activities weren't quite over yet - after the brewery, the bowling, the Thai food and the bumping into old housemates, Tom and I headed off down to Coney Island to have some fun at the new Luna Park.

I think I mentioned the Luna Park in another post, but it's a new bit of Coney Island down on the boardwalk, they must have invested quite a lot of money into the area because they have about 10 brand spanking new rides and lots of different games to play.

After surveying all the rides we picked the two that looked most fun and most scary and decided upon the Air Race and the Brooklyn Flyer. The Brooklyn Flyer was our first target...

You sat on a little two seater bench (that looked remarkably like two school chairs glued together), got strapped in and then were taken up to the top of the big tall tower - then you started to spin! It was FANTASTIC! The view was great, and as you whizzed round it felt a bit like you were going to knock into the other rides. Then about 60 seconds later it was all over.

The rides started look lovely as the sun started to set and all the lights started to come on, it looked far more impressive at night (I suppose that's why it's a Luna Park!).

The next ride we wanted to go on was the Air Race - it was clearly the most popular because it had the biggest queue, so we joined it and watched as the little aeroplanes full of screaming people came worrying close to our heads. Unfortunately as we were queueing the shut the ride down for some reason, so everyone ran over to the Electro Spin instead. Then as we were queueing for the Electro Spin the reopened the Air Race! So we ran over and got back in the queue for that... luckily it stayed open and we got our seats at the front of a little yellow plane that spun round and round and upside down (and stayed upside down!).

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The Luna Park was fantastic, it was great fun going on the rides with Tom (just like at Universal Studios and going on the Hulk ride 7 times in a row!), I'm hoping I'll be able to talk Abi into going down to Coney Island and trying out the other rides with me... I'll keep you posted.