

An impossible-to-miss bright red Thrill Ride! shuttle bus was parked nearby, motor running. With my backpack dangling off one shoulder, I pulled my large wheeled suitcase to the passenger pickup area outside the main terminal. That afternoon I'd flown into the airport. True love can survive that, can't it?Īnd that's how I, Megan Holloway, a life-in-the-slow-lane, carousel-ride type of girl, packed up the essentials of my life following my junior year in high school and headed to the Thrill Ride! Amusement Park, vacation destination extraordinaire on Lake Erie.

I don't have to ride the big roller coasters.

Living with a stranger has got to be better than living with Mom and Sarah while The Wedding is being planned. like, I totally don't get what is so great about the whole queasy-stomach, heart-in-throat, up-and-down, faster, faster, higher, higher experience.ĭecision: No brainer. Ĭons: Share a dorm room with someone I've never met never seeing Nick and okay, I have roller coaster issues.

Pros: Weekly paycheck get on all the rides for free gone all summer dorms are available being totally absent from home while Mom and Sarah. Work at amusement park near lake far, far away Pros: Weekly paycheck watch the latest blockbusters for free eat complimentary no-limit-on-the-butter popcorn until I pop.Ĭons: Aching feet from standing behind the concession counter sweeping up spilled popcorn sticky floors see less of Nick live at home while Mom and Sarah. Pros: Weekly paycheck Nick, my new boyfriend, works there chance to kiss in the cooler in between serving customers?Ĭons: Aching feet aching jaw from continually smiling to get better tips living at home while Mom and older sister, Sarah, go through the insanity of planning Sarah's summer wedding (They can't agree on anything! Mom? Hello?!? Sarah is twenty-three, old enough to plan her own wedding.
