A Summer Day in Tirana

One day I decided to take Ainsley and Ollie to the local amusement park--when I say amusement park, picture a sad compilation of seven western-world carnival rides/games that were condemned circa 1983 and have barely been maintained over the past decade. Here's the story of our day out...

Upon arriving at the park (12:45 pm) we discover this area of Tirana is at the tail-end of one of its daily power outages. "Come back at 1:00. That's when the power comes back on." We come back at 1:00, only to be told the park closes for lunch at 1:00 and will reopen at 4:00. In typical Albanian style, I argue my way into the pathetic park and we ride three rides before the park does, in fact, close for lunch.

Feeling quite unfulfilled, we walk to another, nearby, less electric park...which is also closed for lunch.

Not wanting to let my children down, I take them to the exponentially more pathhetic park across from the President's house, which is always open, but has not been maintained/updated for decades.

After having all the fun we could (10 minutes later), Ollie used a nearby restroom and we headed on our way.

Although we knew the rules, Albania had won...it was a sad day for childhood fun. Oh well at least we have memories of EuroDisney.