The Chattering Crow: The ferris wheel at Liberty Park

Sunday, July 28, 2013

The ferris wheel at Liberty Park

I'm pretty sure that this is the first ferris wheel I rode. I rode it more than once under social pressure from peers, but I didn't like the way my stomach turned coming down from the top. Sickening.

Yesterday, Tom and I walked through the Park, which always makes me feel like a ten-year old, and sat on a bench watching the ferris wheel. It creaked. Yay, verily, it screeched as it turned. This does not build confidence in the equipment. That ferris wheel must be a hundred years old and it sounds like it.

Would you ride a creaking ferris wheel?

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MarianneJuly 28, 2013 at 12:59 PM
My favorite ride at Lagoon is the wooden roller coaster. Wood seems scarier than state of the art metal. But I haven't been there for a while. They may have updated it. I hope not. I want to take my kids and point out how the coaster is wood and question how it can hold on this weight as we speed down the track...
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AnnJuly 28, 2013 at 3:58 PM
Of course!
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Anne LouiseJuly 28, 2013 at 4:28 PM
The white roller coaster cracks like none other. I think I could handle a ferris wheel.
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Gold-EAugust 7, 2013 at 9:31 AM
I took Jackson on that Ferris wheel recently. He didn't really appreciate it as much as I thought he would. It creaked around and around for a good five minutes. He wanted off.
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