By God it was a cold evening at Canada’s Wonderland Wonderfest yesterday. I think we all left with ice cold toes, fingers and raw wind blown cheeks. Hard to enjoy the splendor of the lights & rides with family when all you keep thinking about is how fucking cold it is. Loads of hot chocolates, fries and warming station visits kept us out of the ER, but holy moly it was bitterly cold and ever so windy! I wished I had battery heated boots and gloves! I opted for long johns, when I should have used snow pants as well. Silly mistake on my part. I’m my own worst enemy when I convince myself the outside elements won’t be so bad after all. Wrong. Go with your gut and over prepare!
It’s now Friday January 2nd, so the kids have three full days left before school, and afterschool programming all start up again for the new year. So they should try to squeeze every ounce of fun out of these last few days because the rest of winter will be a real slog. I will take them climbing at some point, either later today or early tomorrow. Depends on a few factors out of my control at the moment. But the kids seem content to build new Lego sets, or take turns playing on the VR headset. Gorilla tag has pulled ahead by a fairly wide margin. I am pretty partial to fruit ninja and beat sabre, but I have only had one brief go at fruit ninja while I was setting up the headset, and calibrating the wifi, and accessibility options. The children have monopolized the VR experience thus far. I can change that when they go back to school! Ha.
My only consolation is that in four months time the weather will break, and we will start to see life return to the neighbourhood! I really do hate being out in the cold. School drop offs, pick ups, getting gas, grocery shopping, dog walks, shoveling, cleaning off the cars. It’s all terrible in bitterly cold blowing snow. I look forward to being back out in my garage shop building furniture come spring time. I could technically cut joinery now and wait for the glue up, but I’d rather not leave the wood to buckle and twist by cutting it now, and then leaving it for months before I can assemble it, and do all the finishing tasks. All my joinery will be off by then. I learned that from doing our screen door, and again when I made a children’s bed. Best to work it all together and leave it to settle all together in situ.
I imagine if you were dressed warmly enough in really good cold weather gear that you would likely have had a great time outside at Wonderfest yesterday. I think it ends this weekend, or next week so it’s now or never. I went to Wonderland fourteen times this year so I feel as though I got my money’s worth out of not only my pass, but the perks, and add-ons too. I ate every time I went, and I had multiple beverages too. Parking was paid for by the third time you go, so I’m golden baby yeah!
Not only that but we rode the new Alpen Fury at least three times this year. Once it opened in mid July or early August that is. Waited an awfully long time for it each time. Three hours, two hours, and one hour plus each time. It was kind of insane. The first three hour plus wait time was in 43°C heat, and other folks were passing out as we waited in line. We should have had 2 to 3 drinks each in that line, but made do with one each. It was very dangerous. We both felt woozy in the extreme heat. I no longer wish to wait more than 1 hour for any ride, like ever. Not sure if that makes me a snob or what, but if I can’t fast pass an individual ride, I don’t want to ride it.
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