Up past your head, down your back, around your ankles

[sovay]

Today we rode: Hulk (twice), Doctor Doom's Fearfall, Spider-Man, Ripsaw Falls, Jurassic Park, took time out for lunch at Mythos (which is visually on the order of Tiberius' villa at Capri, but the food was genuinely amazing: mahi-mahi with cilantro cream and plantains, yes, please), and then Harry Potter, the Dragon Challenge, The Cat in the Hat (because it is just delightfully done), and then we went back for Hulk and the Fearfall again as the sun was setting, the sky smoky peach and the line of the horizon flipped over black as the coaster roared upside down. It was absolutely beautiful. I thought when I was eleven that I'd be in space by the time I was the age I am now; at least, I thought it might not be unusual. That doesn't look like the future I've found myself in. As long as I'm stuck on this planet, I'm going to get all the feelings of flight I can.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Bliss.

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I am all for getting as close to flying as one possibly can, as often as possible.

(You have gorgeous hair! The way it shines in the sunlight!)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it was a good time!

Excellent photo!

I thought when I was eleven that I'd be in space by the time I was the age I am now; at least, I thought it might not be unusual.

Poignant thought, that. When I was eleven or thereabouts, I remember reading a travelogue of a visit to a moon colony, complete with a flight on the commercial shuttle and spacesuit rentals for a tour of Tranquility. I'm thinking it was set no more than five years from now, which was probably wishful thinking even in 1986, but still...

Then again, according to Fifties SF we were supposed to be mining in the Asteroid Belt by now, using ships navigated with paper charts and slide rules.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I thought when I was eleven that I'd be in space by the time I was the age I am now; at least, I thought it might not be unusual.

I have never had any special urge to be sent to space myself, but when I was eleven (twelve?) I thought that I would be a NASA engineer and building the rocketships that helped other people get out there.

Perhaps in the world where I reached my star dreams, I also helped you reach yours.

That doesn't look like the future I've found myself in. As long as I'm stuck on this planet, I'm going to get all the feelings of flight I can.

Yes, this is good and I agree with it. Swimming is like flight sometimes, and ice skating. Bicycling down long hills, playing on swingsets, or trampolines. Roller coasters.

Someday, if I decide not to have children, I will spend the money instead on having an aeroplane of my own.

~Sor

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

While I was exclaiming over the existence of a Cat in the Hat ride, jlighton said "Yes, it seats four, but they only let two people into each cart, because Thing One and Thing Two always appear when you open the door, and ride behind you."

I'm so glad you're having a good time and I completely concur on grabbing all possible opportunities for the feeling of flight. I think this is why they could never get me off the swings as a kid, or out of the pool.

Also, your hair is breathtaking in that light.