Your weekend is not over until you?ve dangled upside down in the air at eye level with the top of a Ferris Wheel.

If you rode the Samurai at the amusement park at National Sports Centre, that was what you saw as you swung 360 degrees through the air at what felt like both the speed of light and the plodding pace of a horse and carriage ? at the same time.

And it is, of course, an unwritten rule of all amusement park rides that the closer you are to upside down, the slower you seem to travel. You realise the undeniable truth of this right when you are hanging suspended miles in the air, looking up at the ground below you, wondering frantically if your cell phone is going to fall out of your coat pocket and shatter on the ground ? perhaps followed by you.

?At one point I opened my eyes and we were hurtling towards the earth,? said Samurai veteran Calvin Thomas. ?It was scary. I closed my eyes.?

DNA Entertainment were the magic behind the amusement park at National Sports Centre last week, part of Jolly Shows parks based in Maryland. Though originally scheduled to arrive in Bermuda at Bernard Park in early November, some last minute changes were made and Jolly Shows set up camp at National Stadium on November 27, closing last night.

Besides the Samurai and the Ferris Wheel, there were also rides such as the Riptide, the Round-Up and the Zipper ? none of which were highly recommended after you have eaten, as one poor soul on the Round-Up looked like he was about to discover last night.

On the Riptide you swung back and forth from side to side, with the arcs getting larger and larger until you were drawing full circles in the air ? getting a spectacular view of the City of Hamilton at the same time.

On the Round-Up you could not afford to look at the view. The Round-Up works on the basic principle of centrifugal forces, spinning you around until you are so pinned against a wall that you cannot even lift your head.

That is the point when it lifts up on to one side in a terrifying imitation of the Ferris wheel. And, even though you know it is a theory which has been tried and tested a million times, you are always sure that this will be the one unbelievable time in history when the theory of centrifugal force fails.

By all accounts, the biggest problem of the park was cost. Advance ticket prices had been upped to $25 and tickets at the door were $35 ? and those were only entrance fees. Once in all games cost $3, and you had two options for buying rides tickets: either $2 per ticket or $20 for unlimited rides.

Fortunately several of the games were the kind where you were guaranteed to win something, if only a ?mini? prize.

The park found its biggest success with young children, who had rides like the Dragon Wagon and the Nascar Speedway to enjoy, as well as prizes and cotton candy.

Visitor Michelle Jacobs thought the park was expensive, but said she still had a good time, braving even the scariest of the rides: the Zipper. ?The rides were pretty interesting,? said Mr. Thomas. ?I liked the bumper cars.?