So anyway, we headed out away from the hotel in hopes of finding a park. We only had to go a few large city blocks before we found a really sweet deal. There was a beautiful little park with a man-made lake with islands and bridges where they were renting paddle-boats.
This sounded like a great idea to Kai. You know, paddle-boats look much more serene then they really are.
I wish I could tell you that the well-maintained state-of-the-art engineering behind the propulsion systems on these ones made them a joy to peddle, but all I can really say is I'll be feeling that ride tomorrow.
There was also a set of carnival type rides there as well, which Kai absolutely loves, so we let him pick one out to ride.
But not this one.
or this one.
He settled on this one, but didn't really understand the point of the ride.
Until the kindly ride operator hopped on his car in motion and explained how the guns worked.
These are targets that you shoot to make them animate!
Soon Kai was joyfully shooting up the animals like a pro!
This ride went on for about 15 minutes or more. At one point two older boys came along who were itching to ride spaceships and shoot at animals too, so one of the workers used brute force to stop the cars and let them on. After a while the operators moved around behind the control booth like they were going to end the ride, but they were only taking a smoke break. When some other kids came along and wanted on they stopped it again, and this time I stepped in to remove Kai. Even though the deal was "only one ride" it cost us this balloon to get out of the park and back to the hotel without a tantrum.
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