We pulled in to an empty lot...ah, the first ones here! We paid the Sh5,000 ($2.50) entrance fee and walked into the eerily quiet amusement park.
Nothing was working yet and it was already after 10am, so Kadin and Noah killed some time on the playground. What we soon found out was that we just needed to go get on a ride and wait for one of the workers to come over and turn it on for us. The ride was over when the boys were bored and wanted off. Here's the boys on their first ride...the Orient Express.
Most of the rides were county fair type rides for little kids, but there were a few that they let the adults on: teacups (which the conductor hand-spun as you passed by him), bumper cars (with only 4 them working), and the pirate ship (which made weird creaking noises and safety bars that didn't lock). I tried to get on the motorcycle ride, but they kicked me off before they actually got started.
Half the rides weren't working and the other half looked like they had seen better days, but it was a fun way to kill some hours on a Saturday afternoon. There was even an arcade, which cost Sh1,000 per game, so we just sat and pretended to ride those (we weren't going to pay the Sh1,000 per game on the principle that we only paid Sh5,000 for unlimited rides on everything else).
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