June 10, 2013 at 12:41PM

A couple of days ago we went to the local carnival for Art City Days, Springville's city festival. The girls got to choose a couple of rides to try. This is our first time ever taking them to a carnival. ALL THREE of them wanted to ride "The Zipper". It's a 2 person ride, so I decided to go too. I chose to go with Lizzie because she tends to have the hardest time gathering herself for something even kind of intense. The tall vertical part of the machine rotates around and each individual cage twirls around, head over heels. I was wearing a necklace, but had my hair in 2 braids. Inside the cage part there is a padded lap bar that closes you in, bars on the front part to hold on to, and, of course, is totally enclosed. As soon as the thing started moving I realized that I no longer have the same head for swirly death defying feats such as sitting inside a padded cage moving head first towards asphalt or clouds. Lizzie did a great job. I put one arm around her for most of it so she'd feel more secure (and I would too). As the ride was unloading I said to her "Wow, I almost lost my necklace!" (It got tangled in my braids so it didn't actually fly off.) Lizzie replied with "I almost lost my deep fried oreo." (We got a couple to share earlier that evening. Those things are really yummy!). Then we got off and were asking Kate and Sabrina about their experience. Apparently the first time their cage flipped upside down, Sabrina slipped out from behind the lap bar! She was rattling around in the top part of the cage almost the entire time! She got a little banged up and Kate got a boot to the head. Thank heavens she was okay!!!!! They even had smiles on their startled faces. For the other ride, the girls had wanted to do a smallish rollercoaster. After The Zipper, though, they decided that the carousel sounded safer. On the way home Daddy said "Who wants to do that again next year?!". His question was met by resounding silence. Followed by giggles. Personally I think it worked pretty well. They never want to go on a fancy amusement park ride again! Kate and Lizzie swore to never again attempt such a thing. Sabrina said she will tell her children to never bother because it's way too scary. At least we enjoyed walking around the booths, getting airbrush tattoos, and of course the carousel. :) via Facebook