So, Mrs F and I took Sarah to Thorpe Park today.
We arrived in brilliant sunshine and a ford focus both of which stayed with us all day. The car obviously stayed in the car park and the sun stayed in the sky.
The first ride Sarah wanted to go on was "The Detonator" but for technical reasons we didn't manage to do that one first off so we went and got wet.
Somewhere in that cloud of water you will see Sarah, me and 14 other people. Let me tell you, that water was FUCKING COLD! as it rained down on me all I could do was just gasp and breath in over and over till I thought I was going to burst! Totally soaked and it was brilliant. Due to the bright sun there was even a little rainbow around us in the boat.
So then Sarah decided we should go back to "The Detonator" and line up again. This is the thing she wanted, her first choice of ride. Is she mental or what.
Yes, twelve bucket seats arranged around a tower that looks a couple of hundred feet high. It goes up slowly, pauses, then drops like a rock.
I sat there next to Sarah holding her hand and up we went. Now no matter how high you think that looks let me tell you, when you get to the top it looks a hell of a lot higher. And as I sat there at the top, I thought to myself;
"I think I may have made a bit of a mistake here"
When I got to the word "mistake" in that mental thread, we dropped.
A split second into the drop, my rear end left the seat and I was free falling. the only thing connecting me to the ride was my left hand on the padded collar thing that was pulled down and clicked into the seat for safety reasons and my right hand holding Sarahs.
a third of the way down I became aware of a sort of growling "rrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRR!" noise. I was even more amazed to realise it was me! I was making an involuntary noise!
The ground came flying up at us and then the hydrolics kicked in and my arse slammed into the seat with a force that made me groan out loud, and then it was over.
Sarah is so brave sometimes, braver than me. I was scared crappless! She was cool.
Mind you, neither of us stopped shaking for half an hour afterwards!
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She loved it.
She is very brave but you are her hero and she told me that you aren't scared of anything. So just to warn you "Daddy", she is planning to go back next year when she has grown by 10cm so that she can ride on Nemesis, Colossus and Samuri with "YOU".
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