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Sorry I Just Had To Rant About This Awesome Experience

Ok so I went to an amusement park in Utah called Lagoon a couple Mondays ago, and there is this ride called the skycoaster where they basically strap you into a harness, raise you up fourth feet into the air, and drop you into a giant swing.

Naturally I wanted to do this. It cost extra, but my dad said he was willing to pay it because this was my graduation trip thing. Honestly I think he thought I'd back out. No siree. I'm an idiot Gryffindor and I do crazy things when I say I will.

The challenge was getting my siblings or my cousin to go with me.

You could go with up to three people and as I was watching others go I realised that you swung higher when there were more people.

My brother flat out refused, so I gave up on him and tried to get my sister and cousin to come with. My cousin was all for it until we did the ride where they drop you from high up and she didn't like it and suddenly didn't want to be dropped from an even higher height with an even less secure harness. Yeah it made no sense.

My sister is afraid of heights so I thought she was a lost cause.

Then I realized that I was getting tried from all the other rides and might not be able to go on it, so I decided to just go for it.

My dad bought three tickets and I pulled my sis and cousin into the line with me.

They both started freaking out. My cousin actually started hyperventilating.

Ok so here's when a problem came up. While I was listening to instructions being given, I learned that when they pull you all the way up there, one of you had to pull a rip cord to drop all of you. And obviously I had to be the one to do it because my companions would be no help.

So I started silently freaking out that I might get up there and hesitate. But I was the one who wanted to go on this ride, so I wasn't allowed to freak out, I had to keep the others calm before they dropped their tickets and bolted.

I was able to relax a bit when we got a bit further in the line and the bottoms of our tickets for ripped off because the tickets said no refunds if the bottom is ripped off. So now they had to or they owed my dad money.I

We finally got to the front and they got us into our harnesses that looked like weird aprons and we sat on a bench and waited. I received the instructions for how too pull the rip cord. Basically they pulled us all the way up there and I would hear, '3, 2, 1, drop' and then I'd have to pull it.

I spent the majority of the time on the bench trying too figure out how I would hear them if I was forty feet in the air.

They called us up to the gate and we watched as the people who had just finished swinging walk back. They were smiling and laughing and I nudged my relatives and was just like, 'see they had fun, look how much fun they had, stop hyperventilating.' I'd been doing this the whole time as the people flying overhead went above us laughing and whooping and basically looking like they were having the time of their lives.

So they then took us out to the bottom of the big tower thing and we got into this platform that moved up to the end of the harness and they began attaching us to it. One lady was giving instructions on a very thick accent that I couldn't place but I could understand. Apparently either my relatives were panicking too much to be able to understand her or they were just really bad at understanding accents because they kept saying what and freaking out more when they couldn't understand.

Then the scariest thing happened. The platform below is suddenly lowered, but because we were strapped to the harness we swung forward forcibly and it felt like we were going to faceplant, but we didn't. And they didn't even warn us.

Woo I began freaking out harder as they have me one last set of instructions on how to fall correctly, and then the platform went all the way down and they left.

My sister and my cousin both turned towards me and frantically asked for a quick translation because they couldn't understand her, and so I gave it.

Then we started to move upwards.

They pull you up so freaking slow I swear it took a full minute to get to the top. They pull you up so your head is facing the ground too by the way.

Oh and the moment we started being pulled up my cousin immediately stopped hyperventilating and said, 'oh nevermind this is fun.' And I just turned to her and was like !?!?!?!!!!!!!?!?!!?!!??11!1?!1?1!1?1!?1?1!??????!!1!1!1!!1?1

My sister is basically crying at this point because like previously mentioned she's afraid of heights.

And I'm panicking just a bit. We stop at the top and just away there for a second as I reach for the rip cord and panic.

Then suddenly a voice from nowhere just says, '321drop' Like ridiculously fast and my mind goes 'oh wait that's my job I gotta do it' *yank*

I had about half a second of terror where we just fell headfirst to the pavement forty feet below us, and then the line caught us and we were flying.

It. Was. So. AMAZING!!

I've always wanted to fly and this was incredible.

The best part was reaching the top of the first arch and then that weightless feeling you got for a bit before you start swinging the other way. We swung back and forth quite a few times and it was just the best.

After a few swings it finally registered in my ears that were just having too much fun to notice that my sister had been screaming bloody murder the whole time. Later afterwards I asked her if she had fun and she said it was only fun after the third swing 😂.

As we slowed down the people running the ride stood on a platform and offered out a loop that we were supposed to grab and hold onto and it would slow is down. Only they didn't reach it out far enough and we missed. On the next pass we tried again, and we missed again. They have up and let us swing for another minute.

I was kinda glad I missed.

We finally slowed down and they brought the platform back up and got us out of the harness and I just bounced all the way back.

I had been feeling particularly zombieish from doing a bunch of roller coasters for five hours before that, but afterwards I had all my energy back up and bursting.

It was just so fun.

I can't even explain it properly it was that good.

So yeah I just had to rant because I needed to.

😊