A big day at the amusement park

Big day -- met people at 7am and we left for Cairo before 8. Not bad, really. First we went to a church and then on to Dream Park. We were there from noon until 9pm! Wow!!!

Quite an experience. I think Dream Park is the biggest amusement park in Egypt, but it can't really compare to major parks that I've been at. The complex is huge, with a hotel, mall, etc and is owned by a big media company so it's trying to be a bit like Disney World or Disney Land, but it's more like "The Most Popular Fair on Earth" mixed with some of the smaller rides from Cedar Point.

The biggest ride is something like the Iron Dragon at Cedar Point and they also have a smaller version of Thunder Canyon as one of their water rides. Heck, there's even something like Disaster Transport! Oddly enough, all the rides seemed to have come from the same German company.

Some of the fair rides that I thought about included the Tilt-a-Whirl (my name for it -- at Dream Park it was Tea Cups) and something like the Matahorn. Sorry for the obscurity of this b/c only my mother and maybe old high school friends will remember these names from the Hillsdale County Fair (which is actually called "the most popular fair on Earth" for some strange reason, since that can't be true).

Going off on a tangent of speculation, it just occurred to me that someone probably took P.T. Barnum's "The Greatest Show on Earth" tagline and tried to change it. The trouble is, "greatest" is a subjective term, so you can get away with using it b/c no one can prove it's not the greatest. Unfortunately, "most popular" can be quantified by presuming that attendance equals popularity. If this is done, then the Hillsdale County Fair has been lying to people for 150 years! *grin*

I'm tired, but it was a fun day and strangely enough, it felt like being home...even though I was with a group of 16 Egyptians all day. The timing was good, b/c the Hillsdale County Fair starts on Sept. 24th.