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  1. Celia Mae

    Catchup

    By Celia Mae,

    Hey nerds,
    I know I promised a part three of my disappearance blog AGES AGO but it's been a while so I'm just going to dump a load of Scarefest pictures and pictures from other stuff I've been up to since the end of last year here for anyone who's interested

    The welcome posters were fabulous... Spot the mistake?
     
    Compulsory trip Nemesis photos:


    Spooky!

     
    The Towers all lit up

     
    No lights on the Smiler

     
    Scarefest + scarecrows...

     
    Morning welcome dance from the Alton Ancestors




     
    Spotted!

     
    Duel had an actual queue!

     
     
    Shrek's Adventure... But I was more amazed by this!

     
    Went to the Olympic Park, which is soon to get a slide so I hear down the side of this monster... 


     
    Soho

     
    Winter Wonderland



    The sky above Winter Wonderland  (taken from the London Eye)
     






    I love all the lights at Winter Wonderland 
     
    Thanks for putting up with my dodgy photography, will have a few more photo dumps for you soon!
  2. Celia Mae
    Sup nerds,
    I have to start this one by saying sorry. This blog is for me to apologise for the delay in writing the rest of my disappearance blog, as I'm afraid my laptop has lost all ability to connect to WiFi... Typical. And the last part was gonna be the best one too...
    So part three will have to wait until I go home from university for Christmas, sorry! Got loads of great photos (especially of Scarefest) so I promise it will be worth the wait! I hope.
    Cheers, see some of you at the Christmas meet! (Might have even written the entry by then, who knows.)
    Bye!
  3. Celia Mae
    Hey again nerds!
    I kinda went AWOL for a bit. I'm sorry. I disappeared somewhere around July but I'm back again! And I have so many blogs to catch up on... So I'm gonna try and smoosh them all into one
    So late July I went to Holland with cadets to do my 100-mile hike. Owch, my god it was painful. But so rewarding

    This year I did it as a member of the British military contingent, so we had to stay on this camp with the 5000 other military personnel from all over the world. On the first day they raised the flags of every country that had sent a contingent.


    This was the entrance to the camp, which was the starting line for each day of the march. Each of the four days we walked a 40-kilometre (25-mile) circuit, which ended in the same place, apart from the final day where we finished in the centre of Nijmegen town. Every day the route was lined by people who lived in the surrounding areas who came to watch, who handed us sweets and food and freebies and things. They really help so much. I've done marches before where no one is watching at all, and it DRAGS so long.
    Summer Nights was good. Of course it was, a quiet park is always good. Not sure about the music at that night's Island Beats, I can't remember who it was but it was someone who had been raved about, but ended up from the sound of it like just one guy rapping over the top of other people's songs. I enjoyed the atmosphere created by hearing the pop music all over park, it was very relaxed.
    In August I attended the TPM meet at Oakwood. Unfortunately I was ill the whole weekend but still had fun! Was great to meet fellow TPMers from all over the country! Rides at Oakwood were great too, especially Megafobia (my first ever woodie!) The night rides were good, but the fireworks and water screen were slightly disappointing. Maybe at some point I'll get to see the Alton Towers fireworks display and see how it really should be done.

    Megafobia!
    Megafobia and water screen in the dark
    The rest of August I worked full time, until the 28th, where I moved house.
    Then two weeks later I moved out of home and into university So yes, life has been very chaotic.
    Anyway, the rest of my catch up will be in another blog coming soon, so yeah! Speak soon!
    I'm back, did you miss me? (Sherlock fans please get the reference so I don't sound like a prat )
  4. Celia Mae
    Hi again, managed to get Windows 8 to play ball so I can upload my photos from since September
    Early September me and SCB headed up north to Drayton Manor for my first time. It was a cold, damp day, but we got loads of rides done, including the "humpty bumpty oddity" that is G-Force, and my first standing coaster (Shockwave) that was... Challenging to get into due to being a little bit short :pardon:Eventually developed a technique by the end of the day though and really enjoyed it Also enjoyed Pandemonium and watching SCB on Apocolypse... Yeah I still refuse drop towers.
    The only slight issue was that it was incredibly quiet and a few of their rides require a certain number of people to run. I ended up waiting about 15 minutes in my seat on Pandemonium...

    Also didn't go on any of the water rides because it was VERY cold, but I got the gist just by looking so that was enough for me
    Then in late September we headed down to Adventure Island with Paige for her birthday! I'd never done an amusement park before other than travelling fairs, so loved the fun Some of their in-house creations though were insane!

    Time Machine for example. Insane. So intense I whited out for most of it... God knows who came up with the idea of it in the first place

    Absolutely LOVED Dragon Claw. It was amazing, despite the fact that I had to ride it alone (as with most of the spinny rides...).

    Rage was also great, nifty ride for a park like this. Great fun and a nice little thrill for the older visitors to the park.
    And yes I got very excited that we were visiting the seaside and insisted on looking for shells on the beach.

    Even though it is Paige in this photo.
    And can I just add, the park looks incredible after dark.

    Anyway, that's this part done, shall be back with my final installment soon!
  5. Celia Mae
    Sup nerds,
    So today I had my first visit to a seaside amusement park, with my charity taking a bunch of our disabled Young People.
    We went to Funland Hayling Island just outside Portsmouth, a cute little place right on the beach a lot bigger than it appears from the outside, with actually some decent stuff.
    First came a twister, pretty much what it says on the tin but it was on a pretty good setting.
    Then there was the Klondlike rollercoaster that was really good surprisingly, if a little cramped inside the cars. It even had an inversion and one of the steepest drops of a 1.2m limit coaster I've ever seen.
    Next we went on this little log flume, meandered about between some bushes for a bit (yawn) and then did one large drop that got you soaked wherever you sat in the boat (as two of the kids found out when they tried to sit behind me thinking I would take the worst of the water for them... Mwahahahahaha!) The only problem, other than the fact it was a little boring at the start) was that it was ridiculously shallow, so bad our boat scraped along the bottom all the way round and actually stopped at one point. I had to use the walls of the tunnels and sides of the trough to push us along.
    We then went on another flat, I can't remember the name of it but you see them everywhere, think it's made by Huss but probably isn't. Anyway, you sit in a long row of seats all next to each other, and swing around in sideways circles. Anyway, it was being manually controlled by the guy in the booth, who kept making us think it was going to stop, before starting us spinning again much to the enjoyment of the young people.
    It really makes you see the advantages of little parks like that, we only had just over an hour but hardly queued, walked straight on to pretty much all of the rides bar the log flume (it was a really hot day!) Each ride accepted tokens at the start from all the young people (or unlimited ride wristbands) and obviously they knew us or had been told or something as they knew I was looking after my group of young people and let me on free. But due to them being manually controlled you got really good value for money for your tokens thanks to the non-existent queues!
    The only slight annoyances were we weren't allowed long so barely scratched the surface of all the rides there, I might try and go back at some point during July, and this young ride op who counted three too many of us onto the twister due to three young siblings who all wanted their own booth rather than sharing with their brother/sister.
    Ah well, I'll head back at some point and try out the rest, I'll probably get a wrist band next time...
    See ya!
  6. Celia Mae
    I just realised I hadn't written a blog from the TPM LEGOLAND Meet! Should have been a quite important one too seeing as I haven't been before...
    First impressions of LEGOLAND, it was alright! Obviously designed with little children in mind but it was a fun day all the same. Though I will admit that I fear I'm too much of a thrill seeker and it definitely needs a few more serious coasters...
    Still loving the meets though
    Lego Bingo... Got very competitive. Got a list of 20-ish questions from Peaj the night before and sent my answers back, and on the morning we were sent a list of the questions and people's answers. Then you have to work out who gave which answer. But some answers apply to more than one person, and some people apply to more than one answer. Ugh. Talking to people.
    I'm vaguely ashamed to admit that I came second... Alpengeist killed my winning streak But we were the only two to actually complete the list. He just got it faster than me.
    So SCB, you'd better be grateful I gave you my prize.
    To the park then, Dragon was quite good, probably the fastest coaster I've been on with only a lap bar (Yeah, REALLY shows how travelled I am that...) and lots of the other rides were quite good. LOVED the Lego theming. Like, really, it was fab Now I understand why the LEGOLAND brand works so well for Merlin. I would love to work on a project like that, building things like that. Miniland was amazing, I could have just wandered around for hours.
    This is all really increasing my belief that Scruffy Dog could be my dream job...!
  7. Celia Mae
    Sup ridefans,
    So I work for a charity where we run playschemes and respite care for disabled children up to disabled young adults, split into three groups; play (5-12), youth (12-18) and young adults (18-25); specialising in our 'non-exclusion policy', meaning any young people are welcome, no matter how severe or not severe their disability is. I work at the youth scheme near Guildford, and on Saturdays we sometimes go on day trips. So today, we went to Chessington.
    That was an experience. I don't know if I've ever been to Chessington on a Saturday, but it definitely has never been like this. It was so busy the disabled/fastrack queues were almost as long as the normal ones, and when you are standing with a bunch of disabled teenagers... Well. It could have been worse.
    Still. We arrived at 12 and sat on the grass by the sealions to eat and watch the show from a distance, then split into two groups. One to go on the fast rides (three staff and four young people) and another group for the slower rides/going around the zoo (one of the girls was in a wheelchair). Our leader went to the place to pick up our wristbands and access passes,and returned with both them and a very inexperienced looking staff member who insisted on putting the wristbands on the young people instead of staff despite them very clearly stating on the band that they were "on behalf of", meaning she had to peel them all off when she realised there weren't enough and put them on us instead.
    The fast group's first ride was Bubbleworks which had been insisted on by two of the young people in our group, then we headed down to check if Vampire was open as we hadn't seen it go past, but hadn't seen displayed anywhere that it wasn't. Of course it was closed which disappointed a lot of us, and took quite a bit of explaining for some of our young people to get them to acknowledge that we couldn't ride and had to go elsewhere.
    For the next bit I have to explain how we work.
    When filling in the paperwork before their child can attend, the young persons' parent/guardian must indicate how much care their dependent requires. We have mostly 1:1's, meaning the young person must have their own carer at all times, few 2:1's (two staff to one young person) and some are non-1:1's, so they don't need their own carer and can be dealt with in the same manner as a normal child in a playscheme, though bearing in mind that even the non 1:1's are a spectrum with some more disabled than others that can pretty much be fine.
    Our group had two 1:1's and their carers, and one other staff member with two other 1:1's. When we approached Seastorm, only the two non-1:1's wanted to ride, meaning the two 1:1's and their carers were planning to watch at the side. When reaching the front of the queue however; the staff member with the two young people were told that despite their care ratio there must be one staff member with each young person. Meaning I had to leave my 1:1 to go on a ride with a young person who was practically fine mentally and physically instead of watching from a position where I could have seen him and been five feet away the whole time not on the ride, and could have actually done more to help from that position were anything to happen (which it wouldn't have). This also meant leaving two 1:1 young people with one staff member, one of which was my 1:1 who had epillepsy, putting me in a position where I would have only been able to sit and watch had anything happened.
    We encountered a similar problem on Dragon's Fury, where a 1:1 and both non-1:1's wanted to ride, and one staff member and 1:1 did not. But once again as each young person needed to be accompanied by one carer we had to take two first, then wait for me to queue AGAIN with the last young person and let him have a ride.
    So it was a stressful day with a lot of people, lots of young people having to wait around for their rides and us finding there was a limited amount for both the slow and fast groups to go on, leaving me to believe that the best place to be is somewhere in the middle, being able to ride the large rides but not being picky about going on smaller ones.
    Ah well, apparently they've had much better visits to Paulton's in the past, so we'll probably just go there next time.
  8. Celia Mae
    I'm gonna say this straight out, I love my job. I'm so happy to finally have one, it's a massive weight off my chest
    But I am way too used to having so much freedom to organise what I do.
    For everyone that doesn't know, my air cadet squadron is my life. Completely. Almost everything I do within my cadets capacity isn't for myself, it's for them. I run my squadron's marching band which I have actually built myself from nothing, I have to organise most events, and I help the staff run the squadron on a regular basis. But if they will have a habit of organising events that clash, and they only let us know about a week or two before... Well when I have to book my rota for work like a month in advance it is never going to work. There is no way I can fit in everything I want to do, and planning now for June is the first time I've really noticed that Plus for the first time I went and booked myself onto this drum major course, something that I really want to do for me, but it means I have to miss quite a big marching band performance and I feel awful for it.
    When it comes to nerding here with you lot, I have the opposite problem Things here are sometimes organised so far in advance I find myself hesitating in case something else comes up or I get called into work or something goes wrong. I need to be more confident in saying "Right this is what I want to do this day, this is my priority"
    Work is brilliant so far. I've been there for a few weeks now and I love it I work for a charity called Challengers, who run play schemes and respite care for disabled children and young adults. I work with the youth group, 12-18 year olds and they're all fantastic.
    The thing is, they're horrendously sort staffed. I ended up properly working on what was supposed to be my induction day (I was only meant to be there for an hour or two), and I was asked to book into extra shifts before I'd even had my proper first day. Still, I know it's just because they're desperate and there isn't any real pressure so it isn't a problem, it's just another really important thing vying for my time.
    The final thing that isn't brilliant right now is I have absolutely no idea where I'm going to be next year. University if all goes right but I really don't know what to expect and so what I'll be able to do and how much I'll be able to come back. Still, that hurdle will be there when I get to it
    To end on a positive note, I love living so near to Thorpe. It was great to turn to SCB one day when we finished college early and say "Shall we pop down and grab a few rides?" PS, the park is really quiet on Wednesday afternoons
    If you've stayed on until the end, congratulations, remind me to give you a hi-five at the next meet I see you at But honestly, thanks for listening to my rant
    See you at Legoland!
  9. Celia Mae

    A Bat-like Empire

    By Celia Mae,

    Well I guess you could say my winning streak continued at the Chessington meet this weekend
    Oh and I had my first go on Vampire ever. Yay another credit!
    So first, Empires. A brilliant game IMO Pick a ride (any ride as long as it's operational) and people try to guess it, while you're trying to guess theirs. Anyone you guess takes on your ride name and becomes a part of your empire, until someone guesses the name of your empire and it all becomes theirs.
    Well, IF someone guesses yours... Lets just say, two meets, two victories The TPM flag looks really nice on my wall, Steeplechase has served me well (still haven't ever been on it)
    Few tense moments though, especially when hearing other people ask someone nearby "Are you Steeplechase?" Yeah lets just quietly walk away...
    Vampire was really good though. We got our tickets for 1pm and from what I'd seen I wasn't expecting much. It looked a bit lame and from what I've heard is quite like Air at Towers in that it was a new technology and they didn't quite know what it was capable of and didn't want to push it too far.
    I was wrong, it was great The swinging mechanism doesn't look much but it feels a lot more intense than it seems. Especially in a few of the corners you can't see from the park.
    And just a message to all at the meet, watching you all get soaked on Rameses was hilarious
    I also discovered a new site most of you will know of called Ridecount. Obviously I couldn't put in every time I've been on every side ever, but I could at least add all the rides so I can have an accurate unique ride count. I did especially enjoy tracking down the parks I'd been to years ago in Italy and remembering the rides there... Going back would be brilliant
    Meh, maybe one day 'XD
  10. Celia Mae

    A Trip Up North

    By Celia Mae,

    Alton Towers finally happened!
    SCB can tell you, we've had a countdown going for ages and finally we went, so I am no longer an AT 'virgin' as some would put it.
    When it came to actually going I was nervous, as a lot of hate had been spread around about low standards and operations and the like compared with last season; however this time I once again found myself in the position I was in at CWoA, not knowing what to expect so practically being an ordinary punter.
    So, day one.
    We started the day at TP, as there were a few rides I wanted to compare to those at AT (namely Colossus and Smiler, Nemesis Inferno and the original Nemesis, Stealth and Rita, and yeah you get the picture). Got everything we wanted done plus a few extras within an hour and a half; bar Inferno which was already in it's full extension with only one train running... Yeah so as we wanted to get to AT at some point that day we decided it was best to not.
    Arrived at Towers at around 2pm to find the car park practically empty. We definitely chose a good week to go, up North aren't on their Easter break yet, so it was mostly families and adults there, which helped a lot with both the atmosphere and the queue times for the types of rides we wanted to go on.
    First thing we walked straight on to Smiler, despite the signs saying it had a 15 minute queue (still would have been good), and I really didn't get what everyone was on about it being rough. Yes I am a fan of Colossus and the fact that it's rough (even though it has gotten notably worse this season) but I will at least admit that it is rough. With Smiler, I don't know if it was the rain or that they'd done some work, but I found it as smooth as I knew Inferno to be.

    Did all the big rides except Nemesis and Air, we had them on ERT the next day anyway and as I've been struggling with walking recently walking all the way over there wouldn't be great. So just to taunt SCB we took the monorail over Nemmy twice.
    Found the staff all very friendly, after going round some areas multiple times (SMILER) some of them even started to recognise us, which made the atmosphere seem a lot lighter. Those staff with roles stayed in them well, and there was this one ride op on the Smiler who was pulling faces at everyone and waving through the glass.
    Day two was much the same, started in Forbidden Valley and worked our way back round the park to the X-Sector, as SCB had booked a surprise lift hill walk and behind the scenes tour on the Smiler. It was awkward how they had Nemmy and Air on ERT, however two other rides over there so far out of the way that didn't open until 11. Still as we knew this we planned around it and didn't end up having to wait long.

    Then it came to our behind the scenes tour. Earlier that day we had spoken to the awesome Smiler op in the bag room where he made some joke about giving him $0 for the wristband (the code on it was $0) to get our bag back. We discovered his name was Dave and as we waited for our BST we found ourselves wishing it would be him to show us around. Lo and behold a few minutes later over the tanoy came "Dave can you please go to the ride entrance" Yay!
    Dave showed us around and showed that the ride staff all really know their stuff, telling us all about the ride systems and what they have to do in the winter maintenance - the amount they do is crazy. All the staff were joking around and chatting and made us feel really at ease, encouraging us to ask any questions we wanted, no matter how stupid. The other ride op Matt and a Smile Assistant called Anna took us up the lift hill and were really helpful, and then we toured the dark section of the ride down below the station learning one particular secret that SCB will go into more detail about in his blog all about the tour... It's hilarious. Watch this space, but for now here's a few photos I took...
    Evening checks from the op box

    The whole of the lift hill

    The 'Smile' taken from the pit beneath the ride

    The rest of the ride from the pit

    What the inside of the dark section really looks like


    Couldn't get over the view from the top of the Smiler... I think I found my next drawing project.

    Come day three the Sun remembered the Earth existed and decided to come out a bit, which mean so did the people. Still AT reacted to this quickly and we hardly noticed at all. We knew Dave and Matt would be opping Oblivion so we went up to see them, and Dave called out to us over the tanoy (remembering both of our names, which was more than we expected) and had a little chat to us after. We'd found out the day before that Oblivion was his favourite ride in the world and he'd ridden it over 2,500 times! Wow. So he wanted to know how we found it and made a joke about having words with us later when we said it was a bit meh.
    Went on Enterprise next and the member of staff there recognised us from the night before and asked how we'd enjoyed the lift hill which was really nice and made us feel really special, as he held the car for us to get out and everything. Saw Dave again later in the day opping Enterprise covering this guy's break, and he made some joke about it being my "16th" birthday and got all the people in the queue to sing for me, he also made some joke to SCB about if he felt sick my hood was right in front of him...
    Also we felt a little adventurous, so decided to explore the Towers themselves. They were amazing and it's surprising how much you are allowed around, plus you get some brilliant views from the roof. My only problem was at the front by the exit for Hex there is a huge stained glass window that is in brilliant condition, however you can only see it from the outside which is disappointing. It would look much better from the inside; however after extensive checks every single entrance to this particular room is blocked off. So then we went back to the Smiler

    Went back to Oblivion last thing to say bye to Dave and Matt and to say thanks before we went home, and Dave once again drew attention to me over the tanoy and we sang again, except this time I was 14. Typical. I do NOT look 14! He came to talk to us after and wished us a good journey back and asked us if we had any more questions, and then we went on our way.
    It all just proved how much the staff make a difference, and how a few personal touches really can make your trip even if it's just them talking to you a bit before the ride, rather than ignoring you like they do at TP. Before this I hadn't been to a park that was huge on theming, as both Thorpe and Chessie have gone a bit downhill in that area recently, and the difference it made was huge. The atmosphere of each area was different and the stories were clear, unlike parks down here.
    Meh, one can hope this might improve soon in these so called theme parks, but it seems recently all they've cared about is IPs and "world's first"s.
    I guess we'll see.
    PS, Sorry Colossus... I have a new favourite <3

  11. Celia Mae
    So, spooning.
    I've tried to describe this to many people without it sounding completely strange, and failed miserably. It is bizzare, but definitely fun. Especially if you win on your first ever time
    Hold onto a spoon at a theme park all day. How? Oh and come 3pm people can attack your spoon. What?! Those are the rules, but they aren't always stuck to. Shoutout to J.S217 who managed to go through three spoons in one day... Whereas I was the first person ever to finish the day with a complete spoon... With only one crack from where I had chewed it at the beginning of the day
    It was great to go to a proper meet as a full member with lots of others there. I was at Guildford but wasn't a full member and there weren't that many people. And I was there at the beginning of the London Christmas meet but had to go do other things
    I was surprised how nice everyone was. I felt like I could just go up to anyone in that group (all 25ish people) and have a conversation with any of them reasonably easily, and the group feeling was great
    Oh and thanks for the Easter egg Peaj, I know I should have shared I with SCB for protecting me all day from attacks, but I got really hungry on Monday...
    As for I'm a Celebrity, I was pleasantly surprised. The whole thing looks amazing, and considering how many effects it relies on the fact that (as far as I know) only two of them weren't working (and one was some of the time) was great. I wasn't keen at the start, I only really went for four extra hours of ride time and the first dark rides of the season. But I did quite enjoy it... And would probably go again if there wasn't much of a queue
    Though why all the actors had to pretend to be past winners is beyond me...
    Anyway, to the priorities, only four days til me and SCB go to Alton Towers, my first time ever. But after all the troubles every park has had this season part of me doesn't want to go, not wanting to be disappointed. I've always wanted to go to Towers... Since I was a kid.
    Ah well, I'm sure it will still be amazing
  12. Celia Mae

    End of Off-Season

    By Celia Mae,

    Sup nerds,
    Before last August I'd been to a theme park a maximum of probably 10 times.
    Then in August I'm dragged on Stealth for the first time.
    December I'm taken to Winter Wonderland.
    January I get bought a Merlin Annual Pass for my birthday (thanks SCB!)
    February I go to Thorpe Park's early opening.
    And this month I dash to the proper opening day of Thorpe Park after college, narrowly missed out on a spur-of-the-moment jaunt on the London Eye, and go to Chessington' Annual Pass Preview day.
    Oh and did I mention in the rest of this month I'm going to TPM's Thorpe opening meet, the opening of the I'm a Celebrity maze, and am dashing to Thorpe Park on the morning of the 31st for a last-minute go on Colossus before going up to Alton Towers for the first time for a three day break. And next month I'm going to the TPM Chessington meet.
    Busy month, isn't it?
    Winter Wonderland was great (expensive but great). MY impressions of travelling rides were something along the lines of Carter's Steam Fair, nothing particularly big, and NOTHING on the scale of a theme park.
    Yes okay so I've never been to a travelling funfair in Europe.
    Obviously what I saw completely spat on my expectations, and even though ice skating was cancelled and refunded instead I got to see my first proper circus (awesome by the way!)
    Thorpe's opening in February was a bit meh. Six rides open was a bit anti-climatic but the queues were short enough to make up for it. Me and SCB managed to get a ride on every row on Stealth, and more than half of the forward-facing Swarm rows. Oh and two dodgems battles as well.
    That was only half of my Valentines Day. As well as the added bonus of not having to listen to SCB going on about his withdrawal symptoms and the peak times of off-season.
    Proper opening was better but there was still a lot closed. Arrived at half two, left at five, got five rides on Colossus and a few on Nemesis and some others, including one or two on X. I forgot how much I had an absolute LOVE of thumping dance music... Nah it's not that bad.
    Got close to going on the London Eye during a trip to London for an important interview, until I realised I'd left my wallet (and pass) at home. Anyway the evening ended up with me and SCB walking down the Merlin South Bank at half seven in the evening, wondering where the new Shrek thingy was going and looking at all the attractions there that I hadn't yet been to. This is going to be a busy summer.
    As for Chessington... Where do I start. I hadn't been for years so couldn't remember what I'd been on before and what I hadn't out of all the rides that existed last time I was there. It was a bit sad seeing how so many familiar pieces of theming I remembered had been taken down, leaving some areas looking like some of the unis I visited last year. Industrial. Not being much of a Chessington geek yet I don't know what's expected to go soon or stay a while, or what new is being bought in. So (on this occasion practically being an ordinary punter) I was left a little disappointed. Also with so many rides closed for it's supposed 'opening' and with Dragon's Fury running just as if it was open but with no people on it, it was slightly as if the park was teasing me. As were the ride boards, with several rides that were closed listed as having queues of 5 minutes. I'm not going to go on about it. People do enough of that on here.
    On a more positive note, I'm so excited about Alton Towers. It's one of those parks I always wanted to visit as a child, but not having parents who had a particular interest in theme parks there wasn't really a possibility until I became old enough to get myself more mobile and go without them. Now it's actually happening I'm so excited XD
    I guess I'll write again about Towers and how it goes.
    Later nerds! See you at the next meet!
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