Festival de Urduliz

One of the towns east of us, Urduliz, had it´s festival this past weekend. On Saturday night we took the metro and got there at about midnight along with hundreds of highschoolers. We weren´t quite sure where to go but followed the mass of people into the town where there was a mini carnival set up. Even though it was super late everything was just getting started, the band was setting up and with every metro that arrived, so did hundreds of more people. We walked through the crowds of people who were basically all getting smashed and came across this ride that was the craziest and sketchiest thing I have ever seen. It´s basically a big merry-go-round with benches along the outside that face inward. Everyone sits there, with no seatbelts, and the whole thing starts spinning. After rotating for a while it starts moving up and down at the same time which makes you fly out of your seat and land in the middle, hopefully on the yellow mat but most likely on the plywood floor, the plastic benches or someone else. If it sounds dangerous that´s because it is, this ride would never come close to passing safety standards in the states. If any of you have seen the video of the kids in the back of a runaway schoolbus who fly up and hit the ceiling a few times this is pretty much the same thing except you pay to experience it. I had never been on a ride before where the chances of breaking a bone are fairly high, I also however have never had that much fun on a carnival ride, the shear joy that you feel when flying uncontrollably through the air onto a hard piece of wood is addicting and we ended up riding it 3 times. The band finally started up at 1am but we were kinda tired and left the festival early at 3, apparently it went well into the next day.