Wonderland and the Dancing bear....
>> 29 Nov 2008
Last Saturday Nicola and I did some child minding for so me of our colleagues and took them to a 'Theme Park' tyype place called wonderland. It was a very bizzare experience. A small park with no-one there filled with lots of fairground rides. All in different states of disrepair. We were stopped from going on some of them as more people were needed to balance them out?! Others weren't running becuase the operator was having his lunch on the back of them.
Nicola went on one odd ride which consited of a train going round a large circular peice of track that was half enclosed by a building. The first trip round everything was dark and came past the station waving at me and one of the children in a 'waws that it' kind of expression.
However the train continued back into the building, this time with the lights on, to show a prehistoric scene with badly made dinosaurs and cavemen models. The train then stopped inside this room and Nicola and the child were ushered off the train into another cave like room. The door was shut behind the two of them, leaving them in the dark. Then all of a sudden they were engulfed in disco music and flashing lights and the strange appearance of a Bengali man dressed in a cuddly bear costume. He then proceeded to spend the next 3 minutes dancing with the bear in the middle of the cave with flashing lights and disco music blaring out.
Finally they waved goodbye and were seated back on the train for the trip back to the station. A truly odd experience but the child we were looking after enjoyed it so much we all had to have a go and take a dance with the disco bear.
It was a weird experience to dance with a Bengali man dressed as a bear in a cave... with my wife and two children.
The same day we also took a trip to Pizza Hut! (Yum Yum!!) and the international club which was really nice with a good size swimming pool and basketball court! So nice to have some normality!
