Me? on a Rollercoaster?

Last Friday, Kristi came in for her medical school interview at UT Houston and I'm sure it went great. So the next day she decided to call in a debt which had been building for quite some time apparently. Over a year ago I made a deal with her that I would ride a rollercoaster with her if she would come snow skiing with us over winter. Those of you who me pretty well, know about how much I despise, or rather flat out hate rollercoasters. Ever since I was little when my parents put me on the Excalibur at Astroworld when I was 7 or 8, I've had this horrible aversion to getting on them. I pretty much had the crap scared out of me by that experience, and I pretty much made sure my parents were aware of how I felt. They never made me get on another ride like that since. Since then I've done a pretty good job of avoiding thrill rides altogether, which of course made school trips to Amusement park rides not so much fun, since everyone wanted to ride rollercoasters and thrill rides, and I never could bring myself to want to. It was always the g-force, or drop sensation that I hated and could never understand what people thought was so fun about it. Well in later years, I had begun to believe that it was more of a psychological phenomenon and that I really needed to branch out and try them again, but I wasn't about to just go out and test this new theory. Which brings us to this Saturday, and repaying this debt. This past Saturday we decided to go to Astroworld since we had the day to mess around with, I didn't really go willingly either cause I didn't quite have the nerve built up, but the tickets were bought and off we went. She didn't start me out with baby steps either. The first coaster she took me down was the new blue and green Ultra twister that has a very steep initial drop off then hurls you through barrel turns..... I was not very happy with her after this first experience and part of me actually wanted to leave and go home right then! haha. But I stayed, and we ended up going down almost all of the coasters in the park, and by midday I was having fun and enjoying myself. Two of them, the Batman and the Cyclone gave me headaches though from all the shaking around. I have to say that overall it turned out to be a pretty fun day, and I think my fear of rollercoasters is in the past.

It was a very fast weekend, and a very fun one at that! Now I'm back to the hospitals for my final month of Internal Medicine, this time back at the VA. I think it will be a good month though and I'm excited to move on to another team and see what follows.
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