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

Admittedly the photo posted on here of the queue line doesn't really do it justice. There is theming in the queue like a table dressed to look exactly like that from the eating tasks, etc. The building also looks amazing from the outside and there is space in the queue for the actors to walk around and chat to the people waiting (like they were doing in much abundance last night). I'd wait for a few days running for this to become more apparent (as a lot of this couldn't be appreciated last night in the dark) before judging it's budgeting, it certainly didn't come across as a bodge job just to drag the punters in for the next year to me

Yeah well you won't tell me what your 'surprise' is...

Slight issue with the Picsolve mirror advert for this ride... I am definitely tall enough to ride, and I had to jump to be seen in this Also with the bamboo hint around the edges of this and all the new signs, it does kind of feel like the I'm a Celebrity theming has overspilled its area as such... It does look a little out of place

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!

I didn't actually break my phone by stepping on it, I threw it across the room to my bag and missed. Oh and I just bruised my wrist by walking into a wall...

Well as has been mentioned elsewhere on this forum before, it was a dying brand quite a while before it was bought in

I was absolutely terrified of Stealth and refused to go onto it until I was dragged onto it (front row and everything) in August last year... And now I've been on it more times than I can count!

Just needs to be a little more patient

Got dragged onto the forums by Ryan...

Oh I wouldn't do it before you were 18... I do have some kind of heart and I know you have a little holiday planned.

Yeah though they both encouraged me to come on here so must have known it was coming

Sup nerds, I'm Celia Mae (cheers for the name Peaj) some of you already know me, so thought I'd finally come on here and see what all the fuss is about seeing as I'd already read most of it anyway (thanks to scarycoasterboy and J.S217 for that one...). So yeah it's all official now, I'm a nerd too! Even though I was already that anyway. PS, watch out Jadam, I am coming to end you... XD