paper: Scrapbooking starting point :: Kansas City Summers | pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

From this starter with a sheet and a half of paper to this finished page, and it goes into the high school section of my early years album! Growing up near Kansas City meant a summer trip to Worlds of Fun, the big amusement park north of the city. This particular summer I took quite a few photos but I was always behind the camera and never appeared in the images, so I’ve started scrapping them anyway and documenting some of the things that made up the day to day back then. I haven’t been to Worlds of Fun in years – actually, my last trip was the day before I moved to England in the spring of 1999. This past summer it came up in conversation and we talked about all the rides that were new and fabulous when we were kids but have since been retired or moved to other parks. I couldn’t quite remember all the names but it turns out there are roller coaster fans who keep track of these things and post them on Wikipedia, so I can now write about how it seemed completely amazing to survive the double-loop of the Orient Express and verify the year the wooden Timber Wolf opened and how naming that coaster was a contest open to all the local school children. More than a few of us are sad that Worlds of Fun decided the Zambezi Zinger was no longer cool enough for the park and sold it. Admittedly, the Zinger was completely tame in comparison to most roller coasters, but it held the novelty that it didn’t require a seatbelt or harness of any kind and somehow this always made you feel you were living on the edge. While it isn’t exciting enough for Kansas City, it is apparently open to ride at a coffee-themed theme park in Colombia. Wikipedia, I salute your ability to fill my head with completely random factoids!

And just to make myself feel old, I looked up the price of a ticket to Worlds of Fun these days. I’m pretty sure it was between $20 and $22 for a day ticket when I was in high school, but they ran special two-for-one deals on certain days if you brought in a Coca-cola can, so we usually arrived in even numbers and full of sugar and caffeine. Today the standard price of a ticket is apparently $48.35! Yes. That does make me feel old and thrifty and I may start calling teenagers ‘whippersnappers’ at any moment.

Let’s quickly move to favourite pages from last week before I feel any older, okay?

Here are four of my favourites from last week – starting point nine. Clockwise from top left, they are by Deb, Maja, Maya and Jude.

If you give this week’s starting point a try, please share what you create on this post. Can’t wait to see your version!

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24 October 2011

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