Area 136

The wireless pc that Jacobite lent me can sometimes actually find S&F's wirless network but has trouble connecting. Not that it matters as neither Mrs F or Shipscook could remember the password so I could connect on the one occasion the lappy made contact. So no bed blogging for me. Oh well.

And there seemed to be a little spike in "drunken females texting sillyness" last night, indicating amazing levels of intoxication at quite an early and unladylike hour of the evening.

ahem.

And no, to be fair to Sarah, I did not get up and watch the qualifiying in Australia live. I got the grid order from the morning news. BUT I WILL be up at 03.30 in the morning to soak up all the lovely F1 goodness......

oh yes.

Just back from dropping Sarah back with her mum after a very fun and sucessful day at Chessington world of Adventures.

Sarah really enjoyed it, we took her to look at the Vampire ride first and she said "I am NOT going on that" but we checked that she was tall enough first, and she was. Good job we did.

So then Mrs F decided to work up to things slowly, first taking Sarah on a Merry-go-round with the horses on poles that go up and down slowly as you go round. Very traditional. Then she took her on some truck things that ran around a track making happy beeping noises. Sarah liked that.

Then it was time to move up a bit. At Sarahs suggestion, I had to take her on a ride that was basically a Waltzer but with little sailing ships for carriges - its a pirate thing, you wouldn't understand. Ahem. These went round fast and up and down alot then spun round. Went on that one three times over the course of the day.

Then we went on a junk style barge thing that slewed back and forth all over the shop, which she liked.

Then we hit Dragon River, basically a big water splash slide thing, which made Sarah scream but she loved it. We got a little wet and Sarah got a key ring with a picture of her and me hurtling down the water flume (you can just see sarahs eyes staring out of her totally zipped up Cagool if you look closely)

Then we did the Runaway Train. Which is fast and twisty and a good preparation for the vampire I felt. So did Sarah.

So we went. Sarah was now getting excited by the prospect of zooming around with nothing below your feet, suspended from the overyhead track in a sort of fighter pilots chair. We went on and she laughed and screamed her head off. We came off and she said "I WANNA DO IT AGAIN! NOW DADDY!"

So we did. It was great.

Sarah got herself a little trophy in the gift shop that said "I survived the Vampire at Chessington" to prove how brave she was.

We also got a chance after all that to see a Sealion show, look at the tiger and its cubs, see the Lions being liony - which basically means yawning and laying on their backs, went through the new sealife centre which has only opened this year and then the rain hit quite hard.

So it was time to go but by then in was nearly five and we had had a long fun day.

I am now knackered and I think I can feel the bruises from all the shocks my bum and sides took on all those rides.

And it looks like Sarah wants to go again.