The Human-Powered Ferris Wheel

After a really hard week of work last week our group got a little vacation this last Saturday.  After language, we all loaded up in several taxis and headed up to this little tourist town that sits on top of the first line of mountains outside the city.  It was really fun to get away for a little while, especially somewhere that was about 20 degrees cooler than it has been down in the city.  I mean it gets hot back home, but I'm not used to 107 as early as May.

Anyway, I digress.  After getting up there, we went to this little roadside cafe where they serve great pancakes.  That's right, pancakes for lunch!  And they were wonderful.  After lunch, since we were in a tourist place, we had to go play the part, so we went down to the bazaar and found some souvenirs.  They also had a Baskin Robbins, which started calling my name, so I decided to try it.  I didn't think you could mess up an Oreo shake, but apparently by adding buffalo milk to it, it is in fact possible to make Oreo's taste funky.  Right before we left though, we found the gem of the day.  A human-powered Ferris Wheel.  It could just barely seat everyone from our group, so we piled on and let the fun begin.  It took 3 guys to get the thing spinning, and then one guy to keep it going.  It really does look like a man in a hamster wheel, but when I say this thing was moving, it was fast!

It really was a fun ride.  Afterwards, we all loaded back up, and were treated to a beautiful sunset over the hills on our way down the mountain.  It made the perfect end to a long but fun and relaxing day.

Till Next Time,
Josh