Bloggin' from the road

I'm writing this from my hotel room in Bristol, Connecticut. We've actually got free high speed internet access in the room ( I guess this is getting more common. We're not really at a high-end hotel ( We're at a Holiday Inn Express ), and the only other time I had free high speed internet access in a hotel room is when we were at a luxury resort in Hawaii last summer for my sister-in-law's wedding . When we were at Disney last year, we had to pay about 10 bucks a day for internet access, and it really wasn't true high speed ( it was only halfway between dial-up and high speed ). It's really a nice to get high speed internet access in a run-of-the-mill chain hotel.

Anyway, considering that I've got internet access, I couldn't resist writing a little blog entry. So, Lake Compounce Amusement Park really exceeded my expectations. It's really a wonderful little park. It the perfect size for a family, has water rides and kiddies rides, and has decent and reasonably priced food ( All soft drinks are free. ). It also has a couple of nice roller coasters. Normally, I don't have time to ride roller coasters when we go to an amusement park with the kids. However, the lines were really short, and everything is close together in the park, so I actually had time to hop on a few coasters while the boys were on the kiddie rides.

The weather wasn't perfect today ( It was cloudy most of the day, and we had a few thunderstorms ), but the sun came out long enough that the boys were able to spend some time on the water rides. I'm definitely looking forward to going back to the park tomorrow.

I noticed one rather random thing during the day. The carousel there was playing some really unusual songs. At one point when I was walking by it, I noticed it was playing an instrumental version of the theme from "Welcome Back, Kotter" ( I doubt that most of the people reading this have ever heard of "Welcome Back, Kotter". It was an American TV show in the 1970's. It's actually the show that gave John Travolta his first big break. It was a decent show, but you wouldn't expect the theme from the show to be played on a carousel 30 years later. ). If you are unfamiliar with the song, just play the YouTube video below.



Rich