Or, “What a difference 10 years makes!” We went to King's Dominion on Saturday. It wasn't until after I got there that I remembered that Margo and I went there almost exactly a year ago on my birthday. Below is a pic from the Outer Limits: Flight of Fear ride that we got that day. the whole trip was a lot of fun. We got there early in the day and went around and rode all of the thrill rides with no problem.
Fast forward 10 years. I've been having back pain since we were on vacation. We arrived after 2pm. Went on Volcano and then [The Italian Job and I started feeling sick to my stomach. I really enjoyed the rides, but physically, I wasn't up to it...and my back was starting to hurt more. We tracked down my sisters so that Margo can ride the Rebel Yell and the Grizzly with them while I took a break....I knew those were going to make me hurt. Eventually I felt better and got on the log flume ride, Flight of Fear (and I didn't buy that picture), Hypersonic XLC and the Hurler. By the end of the night, I was tired, my head hurt and my back was killing me.
I felt so old and broken down when I got home, it wasn't funny. It isn't like it was when I was in my 20's when I was young and indestructible. Will have to go back and try to prove it was just a bad/off day.
I'm not going over that hill gracefully.
Update: Fixed the formatting problem.
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