I have decided that anyone can take a safe amusement park vacation. Disneyland- big deal! Disneyworld- very safe! Watercountry- wet, not wild! Busch Gardens- go hang in the watered-down beer garden! No, I have decided to put together a little jaunt that has a little more "glow" to it.
If you don't recognize where this picture was taken, I've got some 'splanin' to do:
This is a ferris wheel and a couple other amusement park gizmos that were erected in the town of Pripyat, which is a few kilometers from the Chernobyl site in Ukraine. It seems that now the "exclusion zone" which is named for the area that was highly contaminated with radioactive stuff back in '86, is now open to tourists. Sounds like some crazy nightmare, right? Here's a website that caters to this niche tourist trade: http://tour2chernobyl.com/ just to prove I'm not making this zaniness up... (read the particulars of the trip- pretty hilarious!)
The story goes that the ferris wheel, et al. were put up right before good ol' number 4 blew it's top and never used. I think Carter and Reid would enjoy a whirl on that wheel, don't ya think? It would fit in nicely (and literally) with my circle of stupidity theory.
I'll let you know how the trip goes. Hopefully we'll have a blast! Does anyone know a good wigmaker?
I heard the ferris wheel glows in the dark.
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