Monday started off like any other Monday. Check e-mails received over the weekend, catch up with other people to see what they got up to, think about what had to be done for the week. There was one thing in the back of my mind though: the flight to Australia. Now don’t get me wrong, I was sooooo looking forward to going back to Australia and meeting up with everyone I possibly can, but it’s that damn flight that I was worried about. If you read this mess of words often enough you’d know I got bitten by a red-back spider a couple of days before flying back to the US. The bite got completely mis-diagnosed, I thought I was ok to fly, but in the end I wasn’t. It’s the only time I really thought I was going to die, and I say that in all seriousness. Since then I’ve had dizzy spells and numbness like I had on the plane, but nowhere near the severity. They’ve pretty much gone *now*, but I was still scared of getting on the plane, whilst going through my Monday morning thought process.
I mentioned this to my friend at work and said that it would have really been good to go on a couple of rollercoaster rides before I left, just to test if I was fit to fly. What happened next was amazing. He looked up the weather for Orlando – awesome day predicted. Orlando of course has all the major theme parks, “Islands of Adventure” being one of them. “The Hulk”, one of my favourite rollercoaster rides, is also there. Orlando is also 3 hours drive away from Ft Lauderdale. It was 11am. The park closed at 10pm. We decided to leave work for the rest of the day and ride on rollercoasters instead. Totally random. Totally impromptu.
We went on “the Hulk” three times. We went on “Dueling Dragons” four times. We also went on the “Spiderman” and “The Mummy” rides. It was an awesome day, full of adrenalin. At the end of the night, while on the “Dueling Dragons” ride, fireworks were setting an awesome backdrop to an awesome ride.
I am fit to fly.