1 post tagged “carnival”
picture from Ninnxie
I was walking around the hamburger winterdom once. thats like a carvinal in a giant parking lot in hamburg and it takes place in the middle of the winter. There are ferris wheels and things that spin you around and games and all the other stuff you find at a fair or carnival and the whole think is watched over by a giant concrete bunker thats been turned into photstudios or something.
the nice thing is that its in the winter and its pretty cold. it makes a real nice atmosphere. i would like to walk around it in the evening or at night. so one time when i was doing that it started snowing pretty hard and most people cleared out. yo can imagine that a snowy carvinal is a pretty nice thing? it is. of course it is. you've got snow and you've got lots of colored blinking lights. thats just a recipe for a really pretty setting. oh and not alot of people. oh and its getting dark... and there is wierd music playing. ok, clearly very nice setting.
So I was wandering around and i came to a kids ride area. and most of them were empty the kids or thier parents had decided riding rides in the snow wasn't fun. except for one kid. this little guy was riding a car kind of ride. the kind where the car is on a set of little train tracks that wind thru some plywood cut out town? you know the kind? the wheel turns but you are pretty sure that it doesn't control the car really because you can see the tracks below you but still you aren't 100% sure so you try real hard to follow the road carefully with your steering.
Thats what this little guy was doing. his car even had little headlights that would cut a path thru the falling snow and you could see him concentrating on staying on the road. i watched him go for quite a while. i probably looked like a creep but you had to keep watching him he was so determined to stay on the road. and then every now and then the car would turn away and he would actually sort of disappear into the darkness. Then he would come back.
and thats about it.
