Basically that is how I felt for most of this weekend, as Alton Towers was not kind on the weather front.
Rained until about five on Saturday and just about rained all day to day.
Thankfully we had waterproof jackets and such, but they can only take so much.
It didn't stop Sarah and I going on lots of rides, well a few rides lots of times. My arse was wet for most of the day due to all the seats being wet.
Sarah is still just under the magic 1.4 metre mark that would allow her to drag me onto rides that would actually scare the crap out o me. As it is we can go on rides that worry the crap out of her God parents (Ships and QM) but we enjoy.
like this one..
This is us at the top (about 100 ft up) of the "Spinball Whizzer" ride. It's one of those where two couples sit back to back in the carriage and it rotates freely around its central axis. This means that you quite often hurtle down big drops and spirals facing backwards and are whipped round to face to other way half way down....great fun.
Also popular was "The Blade" - a big swing type thing very like "the black Buccaneer" at Chessington. Also we did "the runaway mine train" as you have to, "Hex" which is bloody weird, a haunted house lazer blasting type ride, and Uncle Shipscook took Sarah through the "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" ride that I deemed a little too tame to warrant my attention.
Although there was a worrying point. Sarah said that when she grows that extra bit she wants to go back and go on "Oblivion" - the one that drops vertically down into a big dark hole after pausing at the top. Oh good.......
