Jordan MacPherson, a friend from college came to visit me for a quick overnight trip!
I was very blessed with her visit because it allowed me to scratch some more things of my San Diego "to do" list!
First things first we rented a tandem bicycle so that we could transport ourselves from beach to beach and place to place, shopping, lunch, ect without having to worry about parking the car, driving- blah blah blah..
Luckily, our tandem bike was crimson and grey... (well.. more like rust and unfinished metal... but as recent WSU grads, we called it crimson and grey) .. so we quickly referred to it as the Couagrmobile.
Im not even going to start on what a disaster the first 15 minutes of riding the bike was.. I was the driver- so let your mind go to the worst case scenario, its probably accurate. Our first trip was from Pacific Beach to Mission Beach, so we could go to Belmont Park.
Once we went to Belmont Park, a little amusement park in Mission Beach so we could ride The Giant Dipper- a cute little oceanfront roller coster built in the 1920s. We got our ticket for the one ride and scored the back seats. They only had lap bars, so our arms were free to take pictures of the great views we were about to see! Or so we thought..
Allow me to paint a picture of what really happened.
We started the slow raise to the top of the first hill, the clanking of the chains pulling us up reminded me of the wooden roller coasters at a themepark near my home town called Silverwood. We're snapping pictures on the way of up the bridge and of each other, ready for our cute little ride. We start down the first hill, and Jordan and I are screaming like we are at Six Flags. I mean really screaming. The little 10 year old kid in front of us kept turning around and giving us dirty looks... Literally terrifying. Super Rude.
The first take off (not smooth.. the basket fell off)
Proudly parking the limo
A basket to hold all our goodies (cotton candy)
this is me pretending the roller coaster was fun
tandem biking on the beach!
Jordan taking pictures before we knew it was going to get scary
