{"id":574,"date":"2011-02-21T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisabrounstein.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-02-21T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T03:02:05","slug":"the-wheel-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"The Wheel of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I know. \u00a0 Where have I been? \u00a0 A friend called me the other day and said, “Do you realize your last blog entry was October 26, 2010!?” \u00a0 Yes, I know. \u00a0 I know.<\/p>\n

\"WheelJohn and I used to have annual passes to Disneyland. \u00a0 We would go all the time. \u00a0 On our first trip we stayed down in Anaheim for a couple of days and spent a lot of time at both Disney and California Adventure. \u00a0 Having an annual pass gave us the opportunity to go for a couple of hours on a Saturday night just for coffee and the parade and the fabulous people watching that you can only find at Disney, without the pressure of having to get on a ride or making every minute count like you do when you save up and go once every couple of years. \u00a0 So, on our first trip to California Adventure we enjoyed everything we could together. \u00a0 I am a bit of chicken when it comes to rides. \u00a0 Not just because I’m afraid of the ride but because of fitting. \u00a0 Yes, there are some rides that just won’t accommodate my ample rear end. \u00a0 (Years ago, I had an experience at Universal Studios where I didn’t fit in the seat on a ride. \u00a0 I managed to get the seatbelt around me but clearly I didn’t fit in the seat. \u00a0 The ride took off and I held on for my life during the whole thing. \u00a0 It scared the crap out of me. \u00a0 Really, did I want to be a headline? \u00a0 “Fat woman plunges to her death on a kiddy ride at Universal…Film at 11!”) \u00a0 So, even if I had a desire to go on California Screamin’, the roller coaster at California Adventure, it is unlikely I would ever attempt to even get into the seat. \u00a0 What if I didn’t fit? \u00a0 What if the alarm didn’t go off when the belt didn’t go around me? \u00a0 Did I really want to die at Disney? \u00a0 Surely, if I died they would compensate John quietly as only Disney can… \u00a0 \u00a0 I decided to be a gamer and get on the Ferris wheel at California Adventure. \u00a0 How scary could it be?<\/p>\n

I was feeling brave so I said, “let’s go in one that slides.” \u00a0 Here’s how it went. We get in the bucket. \u00a0 I am feeling fine. \u00a0 I am sitting \"Lisa_scream2\"across from John. \u00a0 I have a water bottle next to me on the seat. \u00a0 We start to move…slowly. \u00a0 I feel my heart starting to pound and my hands starting to sweat. \u00a0 I looked around for something to hold onto. \u00a0 There was nothing. \u00a0 I pushed my fingers through the small holes of the cage. \u00a0 My eyes were wide. \u00a0 I looked at John terrified…pleading. \u00a0 Then as we started to rise I said in a shrill voice, “This may not have been such a good idea!!” \u00a0 Then my water bottle fell over. \u00a0 John calmly said, “Honey, we are going to slide now.” \u00a0 At that moment the bucket slid backwards and we started to swing. I started to shriek and scream like only someone in a horror movie could. \u00a0 It was a lifetime until we finished the revolution. \u00a0 They stopped the ride and let us off. \u00a0 As I stepped off I said to John, “Do you think they know it was me?” \u00a0 I am pretty sure they have a picture of me in the operator’s box with a big red circle with a line through my face. \u00a0 For full disclosure, they have a picture like that of me over at Splash Mountain at Disneyland too.<\/p>\n

Why bring up the Wheel of Death now? \u00a0 Because lately that’s a bit how life feels. \u00a0 Not bad. \u00a0 Nothing that’s going to kill me. \u00a0 Definitely some excitement and some fear and some joy and some uncertainty all wrapped up with a “Have Disney Day” smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, I know. \u00a0 Where have I been? \u00a0 A friend called me the other day and said, “Do you realize your last blog entry was October 26, 2010!?” \u00a0 Yes, I know. \u00a0 I know. John and I used to have annual passes to Disneyland. \u00a0 We would go all the time. \u00a0… Continue reading The Wheel of Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,16,18,20,22,23,27,28,31,40,53,56],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-los-angeles","tag-bbw","tag-blog","tag-california-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-disney","tag-disneyland","tag-fat-girl","tag-fat-girl-travels","tag-ferris-wheel","tag-lisa-brounstein","tag-travel","tag-weight","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}