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Chicago was awesome! I had a lot of fun and I'd love to do it again. We toured the city on Saturday and it was just neat
to walk around a huge downtown like that. And then Sunday we went to Six Flags where I got to ride my very first flying
coaster. It's a type of roller coaster where you sit down, and then it tilts your seat forward so that you're looking at the
ground the entire time and are essentially laying headfirst on your stomach as you fly through the dips and loops.
It was REALLY cool and well worth the wait. I also got to ride a roller coaster backwards, where they just turn the train 180
degrees so you face backwards instead of forwards. And they have the only kind of thrill ride that still actually scares me, where
you climb to probably 150 feet in the air and then it just drops you in a complete free fall for about a 100 feet.
The flying was pretty uneventful, though the security was a lot more stringent than the last time I flew (which was to Las
Vegas about a year and a half ago). I got some cool shots from the plane though. The picture gallery can be seen
here.
And because I have so many pictures now, I'll be creating a way to better organize it all on this site. So expect some
more site changes in the next few days. Plus I still need to get the archives all updated. And I'm still doing some stuff in MySQL
and Perl that I've been reading about, and I still want to get some stuff done in GTK before school starts in less than a
month. This summer has gone by so incredibly fast, but that just means I'll be back up at UF before I know it.
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