When D and I realized our one year anniversary was coming up, we began brainstorming where to go to celebrate. I am honestly tired of the churches, museums and all the other junk that foreigners come to Italy to do. I wanted a cheap, down home, not made for western travellers, average Italian vacation. Some place where if I was born here, I would probably go. I wanted to experience Italy as if all this old stuff didn’t really matter that much. So I handed the reins over to D who is the most anti museum/anti church person I know.
He found us the cheapskate special: 3 nights and 4 days in Cervia located near Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Only we weren’t going to be beach bums, we were going on a theme park extravaganza! The first day we went to Mirabilandia (cousin of Gardaland, the bigger and cooler Italian theme park).
We had our sights set on this:
But upon seeing how high and vomit inducing it looked in real life, we wimped out and went on the haunted ghost ride. Apparently the ghosts of old westerners in California who died in a mine shaft immigrated to Italy in the after life to haunt all who entered. oooohhh!
Then we went on the smaller of two roller coasters and I thought it wasn’t too bad and maybe we could handle the bigger, scarier one. That is until we saw our picture! I was having a blast and D was holding on for dear life! Poor guy. That pretty much ruled out any and all rides having to do with heights of over 10 feet.
So we decided to go watch the Police School show and it was the coolest thing ever! It is a group of stuntmen who perform crazy tricks with cars and motorcycles. Definitely one of the neatest things I have ever seen.
After that we wandered around the park, did a few more rides and saw a movie in 4D (you get to feel the movie with wind, water and moving chairs). It was a lot of fun, but we knew it was time to escape when we got ambushed by the musical group while we were eating. Just as I had taken a bite of food, a troop of Amici rejects came storming out with portable microphones. They began to “sing” and dance a badly choreographed routine. It was horrible. Oh, did I mention the entire thing was Grease related? There was a girl with a huge white afro wig, I guess she was Sandy. What is it about that movie here?
Me losing my appetite to the song Grease Lightening
Sadly the Ferris Wheel was broken, only adding to my fear that I should never ride one in case it breaks down while I am on it. It does make a nice backdrop though.
Aargh!
D Shroomin’
Even Snoop Dogg was there!
After waving goodbye to tall Snoop Dogg, we headed back to the hotel. Later on, as the sun was going down, we took a walk on the beach. I couldn’t believe the amount of seashells!
The end to the perfect day!
Cool. Like the pics!