Yeah, we had a grand old time in the ice house, until reaching the end when there appeared to be a bottleneck of some sort. The crowd just came to a stop. Waiting, waiting... Standing still, that's when the cold really gets under your skin... It slowly dawned on us towards the back that the exit door was not opening.
I was seconds away from gutting someone like a Tauntaun when we were released. Turns out Robb and Mr. Kitagawa had planned this little prank for some extended ice house ERT! (That's "EIHERT," pronounced "I hurt.") Had there been any remaining doubt that Mr. Kitagawa was our kind of people, that was gone.
Warming up outside, most everyone had one of these mini teddy bear snack cake deals, which were righteous.
After the ice house escapade, we were set loose to explore the rest of Cosmo World on our own, and a good number of us went right for this haunted walk-through, Dr. Edgar's House of Fear. The story had something to do with this "doctor" (I saw no accreditative documentation) measuring how much fear we could stand, is that right? And we carried a "candle" with us. Anyway, there were live actors and it was competently eerie.
The two mutant bat monsters out front are boss.
Right next door is Cosmo Panic, a sci-fi flavored maze, and it was diverting enough, if not really a source of panic, as promised.
There are a bunch of shops and arcade games in this area, but with more dark rides and such back across the bridge, our group hightailed it back to the Wonder Amuse Zone.
Walking through the park, we reconnected with Mr. Kitagawa who recommended that we ride the Ferris wheel. He graciously led us over and made sure that we rode in one of the "see-thru" floor cars, instead those with opaque bases (the majority of them), like the green one pictured above.
We had a great chat with him while waiting to board, which helped distract me from the fact that we'd be going well beyond 300 feet in the air inside a little compartment with a clear view straight down below our feet. |
