Yesterday I went out to the US Open tennis in Queen’s. There is an odd felling seeing so many off the best players in the world in any sport (well it could be said that missing the Wellington/ Canterbury game I missed as many of the best people in their sport but this was a new and different sport) anyway I had tickets to see the number 4 & 5 in the women’s game (Elena Dementieva & Jelena Jankovic) against much lower ranked players. Both games went to 3 sets (at about 3 hours each) and the seed lost. Then there was also another very good Men’s game, so there was 3 great games which was defiantly a good day at the tennis.
Today I went out to Connie Island which is out in Brooklyn (and no not on an Island). It is the semi-ledigenary New York beach resort. It has a relatively wide long beach and it seams to have a large retiree population. So basically it is the New York version of Foxton Beach (this would mean that Levin would have a population of 11 Million which is so scary I will stop this metaphor right now). The best and most famous thing at Connie Island is the Cyclone roller-coaster, which is an 80 odd year old wooden coaster, this is often rated in the top 10 coasters by people who rate such thing, It was real bone-retelling and very cool, there are a couple of points where it really fells like there is no way you can be OK but of course for the few millionth time it dies all end well.
Wheeee! You went on THE Cyclone! Cooool.
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