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Usually my birthdays are really unspectacular. In luckier years I could force some friends and mates to visit me and bring me presents.
This year, I don't remember why, we planned to have a weekendtrip to the Europapark that included sunday (june 1), my birthday.
It was really funny. My birthday was too hot and not that easy but we had a lot of fun with all these nice rollercoasters :)
We were a little embarassed by the decoration of one of the Swiss attractions and I was far more embarassed by the pics they make when you shoot down and scream.
We also had a nice hotel directly in front of the park and enjoyed a lot of the european specialities (food).
Sunday, we bought lots of waterballons to shoot ourselves. Every drop was welcome :)

Finally, we got one acceptable picture showing two friends, null and me riding the "Silver Star". This was really crazy and I'm glad having survived it!
This thing gets slowly up to the height of about 73 metres (all you can see is the blue sky) only to race down to ground afterwards with a speed of 130km/h. Boah... Everyone should've done this once in a lifetime. Is there something more crazy in the world? It was really impressive. I thought I'd at least have my stomach up in my throat after like in usual rollercoasters but this wasn't the case. I thought my brain was pulled out of my head!! Strange feeling. Plus, I usually scream out the hell of me, here I couldn't do it anymore. It felt like paralyzed. My mouth stood open and I just thought: Oh my God, let it be over.
On my birthday I refused to do it again but it was worth the experience.
Look!

"Sie wollen nichts anderes. Sie wollen kämpfen! Sie sind Soldaten! Fucking Wahnsinnige!" - Noel G.

This post was edited by Jaz on Jun 03, 2003.

Yeah, it was definitely a nice weekend! :-)

Better pictures of a screaming and terrified Orchid upon request, as soon as I've found the time to scan them.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

Better pictures of a screaming and terrified Orchid upon request

No way! Don't dare...!
But you could do me another favour :) The link to the picture in my post doesn't work, at least not for me...

Thank you!

"Sie wollen nichts anderes. Sie wollen kämpfen! Sie sind Soldaten! Fucking Wahnsinnige!" - Noel G.

The link to the picture in my post doesn't work

That's because you omitted the http:// part. Try this.

(Oh, for the others: Orchid is the one in the green t-shirt. :-) )

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

The link to the picture in my post doesn't work, at least not for me...

I'm sorry, this was entirely my fault. You do not need the http:// part. I fixed it and it should work now.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

It's interesting, you know. That emotion looks the same regardless of nationality. I suppose it's just a new way of intercultural connection?

Or perhaps just an excuse to scream. Either way. . .

I'll believe in anything if you'll just believe in anything

That emotion looks the same regardless of nationality.

:-) Probably pure terror and paralysis is an international thing. :-D

Anyway, as promised(?) I've scanned the two images. They're right here:

Matterhorn-Blitz
Silver Star (with the Matrix code removed)

Both pictures were of course taken in the most unexpected moment, during the most surprising descents.

(Edit: forgot to mention that the quality of the original pictures wasn't exactly overwhelmingly great. Especially the colors are a bit unnatural... but it was fun anyway. :-) )

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Jun 04, 2003.