Saturday is never a good day to visit these places and the queue to enter the park alone took us an hour. Once inside they do have some excellent rides. Laura and myself were more than happy to wander around with Rachael and Chaz while they selected which thrills they were going to experience. The sun was out and it was lovely and warm.
Their first ride was on something called 'Rush' basically two huge swings. The queue for this was a mere 15 minutes
Their next choice was 'Colossus' a multi loop roller coaster. The down side for this ride was the 70 minute queue. Rachael and Chaz duly got into line and we toddled off for some refreshment and to sit on a grassy bank to soak up some rays.
We returned an hour later and they were still in the queue.
So far we had been in the park 3 hours and they had only been on two rides. Weekends really are not the best times to do these things.
I joined them on the River Rapids ride and we all got very wet.
With just a couple of hours left we managed to get on the 'Nemesis inferno' ride with just a 25 min queue. This is a hang in the air roller coaster with multiple inversions and a very good ride....I liked that one :)
The final ride was one called 'Stealth' There was no way i was going to ride as it climbed up to 205 ft. No way folks.
The ride starts off on the level and then accelerates to over 80mph before climbing 205 ft and then dropping again before coming to a halt.
They queued for an hour
Once of a day we were happy with just the Big Dipper at Blackpool. It seems there is no end to the extremes roller coasters can now take you to, providing of course you dont go during weekends or school holidays.
2 comments:
Lovely blue skies, Geoff. Nice pics too. I can't bear queuing those rides myself, but can imagine it was lovely to sit on the grassy bank and enjoy the rays ;-)
Nice day out by the looks of it Kid - Give our love to Ray, Laura, Brooke et al - Pete
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