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The ferris wheel is huge and slow. In fact it never stops, and each group of people jumps in one side while the previous passengers exit from the other side. It takes about 15 minutes to go all the way around, and you have an amazing view of the Chicago skyline. Or at least you do if you’re not hiding your face and realizing that you still are, in fact, quite afraid of ferris wheels :)

Because it’s the best kebab in Orléans and the people who work there are super nice.pic

This is great museum with a good variety of displays. The gift shop is fantastic as well. Highly recommended if you’re in the area.

Last time my boyfriend came to America (from France) he handed me an atlas and told me to pick a place in France for our next vacation. I picked Bretagne. We spent three days there and it was amazing. The alignments of Carnac, the forest where Merlin comes from, crêpes, the ocean…

It was awesome.

We’ve always said that 1/3 of Haysville shows up to watch the parade, 1/3 is in the parade, and the other third stays home until the traffic clears. And if you want candy, it’s probably more lucrative even than Halloween.

It’s hokey, small-town, over-hyped, and I still look forward to it every year. Fair food, expensive rides, and as many quaint Christian hometown arts and crafts as you can possibly stomach. Which for me is not too many…I prefer to spend my time at the deep fried cheese-stuffed black olive part of the fair.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t missed it in 19 years.

This was the first restaurant I went to in Lindsborg, years ago, and where I first tried (fairly authentic) Swedish food. It’s delicious, very reasonable, has a good atmosphere, and is run by great people. It’s where the locals eat (almost every night, for some), although it actually just opened back up after being closed for several years.

This place rocks. It’s basically an entire city block of arcade, and my favorite is the building where you play the horse racing game (the one where you roll the ball aiming for the 3, 2, or 1-space holes). They have about a million prizes to choose from, the location’s great, and there’s all kinds of good junk food in the area, including the place that sells saltwater taffy. And if you want to do some gift shop shopping, it’s in that area as well.

I went to here almost every year growing up when my family would make its annual migration to Colorado. I went there again with a friend last year, both of us teenagers, and it was still fun. We were totally too old for it, but we still had a great time.

I went with a friend on the lantern tour, where you get a real lantern (that really blows itself out in the windy passage causing you to hit your head on the rocks) as the guides take you through some of the less available passages of the cave and tell some fascinating history and folklore. They take tours of up to 30 people or so, but we went on a Wednesday morning and it ended up being just the two of us, which is absolutely the way to do it. That was possibly my favorite part of the whole trip. I highly recommend it.