Friday, June 19, 2009

On the edge


They have a special ride on one of the tall hotels called sky adventure. The sky experience adventure introduces a spectacular feat of thrill rides like the world's first edge coaster, that goes around the edge of the building and tilts its riders up to 55 degrees or a leisure trip at the country's first Sky walk extreme where one can walk around the edge of the building wearing a harness, just in case. This is done on the 38th floor of the building.Perfect for adrenaline junkies like me.
I really would like to try this.

I stopped at one of the smaller malls to "people watch" while enjoying my large mango shake. There were men hawking Cialis/Viagra to the older caucasians on the street, little children opening/closing taxi doors for tips, middle aged australians looking for love while sipping starbucks coffee. My meandering was cut short by a skinny young boy that was asking for my mango shake. He pointed outside and said that his 3 year old sister is hungry. The whole family was sitting by the rotunda, they are homeless. I bought food from the local restaurant and took it to the family for a little picnic at the park. While crowds were enjoying thrill rides on the edge of the building there are people living on the edge of life hoping for a better tomorrow or a meal just for today. This was a far better experience than what I would've had at the sky adventure.

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