Dean takes a moment to think, “I think it’s time.” Jake grins, “are you sure?” Dean just smiles and the boys take off running to the largest structure at the park. The ride is built into the side of a mountain and has all sorts of loops before disappearing into it. They watch as one of the cars rockets up the hills and turns as it heads toward an opening in the mountain. The opening is shaped like an enormous donkey head, and the car zooms right into its mouth.
“This is gonna be the best,” Jake yells as they run into the very short line for the ride. The stand giddy with excitement as the line quickly moves into a large warehouse. The inside of the building is oddly themed as the line moves through piles of crates, each one of them designed to hold an animal. As the line progresses, they get to another pile of what looks like clothes. A chute above them keeps dumping pieces of clothing into a pile. Half torn jeans, ripped shoes, and tattered shirts spill into the heap. “Lost and found?” Dean jokes, and a few boys near them laugh.
Then the boys could hear a nearly deafening sound of donkeys braying. The line moved passed a large corral filled with donkeys. “Where’d all the donkeys come from,” Jake asks as he looks closely at them through the corral. “Who knows, they probably ship them in. They’re all over the park doing the labor,” Dean explains as if he knew. Jake shrugs and continues down the line. The boys watch as Uniformed Men inspect the donkeys and then move them into crates. Then a roar of the coaster draws everyone’s attention to the front of the line as a train comes around from behind a wall and to a stop. There are six cars, each designed to hold two, although they looked rather large for just two people.
Boys piled into the cars, but it fills up with about four boys in front of Dean and Jake. “We’ll be on the next one,” Dean says. Jake gives him a ‘duh’ look and watches the car climb up the track out of the warehouse. Underneath the ramp out, a few donkeys are being lead out from around where the empty car was.
Another car comes to a stop and is ready for passengers. Dean grabs Jake’s arm, “come on, let’s go.”