Bann 2

Hello to Tuesday and to you all!

I didn't post anything yesterday because I was quite busy. I just didn't have a spare minute. Not even one.
What was occupying my attention, you ask?
Well, I'll tell you.
It was this fabulous "new" show I found called Men Behaving Badly.
It ran in the UK from 1992-1998 (or around then anyway) and is exceptionally funny. It's also quite... well, dirty. I suppose the name gives it away. Think Two and a Half Men meets Friends meets How I Met Your Mother. It's so funny it's ridiculous.
Anyway, that's why I didn't post. Well, that and the mono. It's been 5 weeks but I'm still as tired as ever.

So today I thought I'd give you another peek into the past. Are you ready? Hold on to your hatrack.

At one point a very nice lady in my dad's squadron took my older sister and I and her three kids up to an amusement park in northern Germany. I can't remember the name of it but if I could I probably couldn't spell it anyway. The central character of the park was supposed to be a mouse (you know, kind of like Mickey) but I thought he looked very much like a rat. A singing, dancing rat. That, friends, is a child's worst nightmare. I only really remember three things about this park.
1. So we went to this haunted house. And we're all crushed into this small room that is rotating and slowly "dropping." In actuality, the walls were moving upward. And this very low and creepy voice is speaking, of course, in German. I remember the four of us girls looking at each other and remarking, "You know, I bet this is a lot scarier if you know what he's saying." So after the "drop" you get into these little cars and go through the rest of the ride, which basically takes you past these little alcoves showing scenes of torture and mayhem. I am SO not kidding. At one point there was one of some demon looking guy whipping a small white dog who was throwing up. Who thinks of that stuff?? (Oh yeah, I forgot where we were...)
2. We all got into this very small virtual reality machine. You know, the kind that rocks around and tilts forward and backward while the screen in front shows a scene of a roller coaster ride or a trip through space. Now I don't know if you're aware of this, but some Europeans have a very different standard of hygiene than Americans. So we get inside this thing, the attendants close the door, and I swear, almost immediately you can begin to see this greenish cloud of STINK begin to swirl around the top of the enclosure. I can't remember what the ride was about, who I was sitting next to, how long of a ride it was, or anything else. I just remember the SMELL. It was so amazingly awful. And the Germans seemed to have absolutely no problem with it.
3. In the middle of the amusement park there was another park area, with grass and benches and trees. It looked like a place for people to bring picnics and things and for kids to run around a little bit, or maybe fly kites or something. But what I saw in it were two people nude sunbathing. I'm not going to lie, I was a little taken aback. It's just not something you expect to see in an amusement park. Maybe on the beach, MAYBE at a swimming pool complex, but in an amusement park? It was odd.
"Look children! Here's the cartoon rat, here's the poor little animal being tortured to death by a demon, here's the box of 'death by body odor', and finally, here's the naked people. Now, didn't we have fun today?"