Last Thursday I journeyed to Kenmore Days which is the Kenmore version of Canal Fest. I went to see Silvertrain/The Humphrey Road Band play. They're a classic rock cover band that features Daryl Gallagher of Gallagher Printing. Daryl is a frequent customer in the store that I work in and we've managed to become, i guess you could say, friends. Here is the man at work.
MAn I hate getting on the bus too late...I feel like I completely missed the boat on artists like John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ray Lamontagne, Kid Cudi (to a certain extent), TV on the Radio, Erykah Badu, India Arie and some others. I mean a lot of these artists are well into their careers and still making music but I feel like i should have gotten on board earlier especially knowing and hearing the names and actually having the means to listen to them because of todays technology.
Just like a star across my sky Just like an angel off the page You have appeared to my life Feel like I'll never be the same
Just like a song in my heart Just like oil on my hands Oh, I do love you
Still I wonder why it is I don't argue like this With anyone but you We do it all the time Blowing out my mind
You've got this look I can't describe You make me feel like I'm alive When everything else is a fade Without a doubt you're on my side
Heaven has been away too long Can't find the words to write this song Oh, your love
Still I wonder why it is I don't argue like this With anyone but you We do it all the time Blowing out my mind
I have come to understand The way it is, it's not a secret anymore 'Cause we've been through that before From tonight I know that you're the only one I've been confused and in the dark, now I understand
I wonder why it is I don't argue like this With anyone but you I wonder why it is
I won't let my guard down For anyone but you We do it all the time Blowing out my mind
Just like a star across my sky Just like an angel off the page You have appeared to my life Feel like I'll never be the same Just like a song in my heart Just like oil on my hands
Last tues my friend Maryand I embarked on a road trip to engage in one of our favorite pastimes, rollercoastering. We decided to go to two Cedar fair amusement parks, Cedar Point and Kings Island. We went to Cedar Point late in the season last year but didn't really get to go on too many coasters because of the enormous crowds. So this year we decided to take the trip before the end of the school year as to avoid large crowds on the rides. The strategy seemed to work..but before I get to that I wanted to comment on a few things about the trip.
On the way to Cedar Point we drove though Cleveland and here was the scene in the sky....
While it looks like there might be dirt on the windows of Mary's car or it might look like smoke is in the air....it's actually packs of gnats as made famouse in the Yankees indians ALDS series in 2007
The crazy thing about the bugs is that when we would drive through the pack it sounded like it was raining as the bugs were getting splattered on the windshield.
here is what happened to the front of MAry's car.....
SO anyhow onto the real purpose of the trip. Our rollercoastering. We first went to Cedar Point. where we got to ride alot of the stuff twice dude to the lack of lines and due to the fact that we got into the park a half hour early with our platinum passes.
We rode the:
Top thrill Dragster
Milenium Force
MAverick
The next day we went to Kings Island which is another Cedar Fair Amusement park. Its actually a pretty good park as well except for the broke ass Eiffel Tower in the middle of the park.
The Diamondback.
There we rode on the Diamondback...which we rode for the first time ever on the front which was pretty cool.
The Beast...
another cool ride we rode on was the bease which I guess is one of the longest wooden rollercoasters in the world. I normally doen't like wooden rollercoaster but this was probably the best one that i've ever been on. The ride was long and relatively smooth. Another cool feature was that the ride went through a pretty secluded part of the park. It was kind of like being on a runaway train going through the woods.
SkyCoaster
After avoiding it forever I finally rode on the skycoaster. MAry talked me into it and she even paid. They had a $5 per person special which was cool. Normally that ride costs about $20 per person.
(this is a skycoaster ride the THE skycoaster ride we went on)
Hopefully we'll make it to Canadas Wonderland or maybe back to Cedar POint sometime again this summer.
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