ailsa_chan

I am shattered. My feet hurt and have some fairly impresseive blisters. I've got bruises all over me and I've subjected my body to things that it probably wasn't intended to. (Like being shot out of a rail gun and thrown around a pinball machine.)

And I loved every minute of it.

Thankyou so much to everyone who came, it was a wonderful holiday, even if I do need another one to recover!

Let's do it all again next year :)

Can people check here:
http://www.pub-explorer.com/orchid/twoforone.htm

Aand let me know what they want. I have booked the table, but they want to know in advance what we are having due to party size. I recommend the two for one thing, which appears to be all the main meals, just excludes the sandwichy things.

I was thinking of getting 3 combos-for-4 as its much cheaper than indevidual starters, can people let me know if they don't want this, and what starter they'd want instead (if any.)

Please can you do this asap, as I need to get back to the restaurant. Todya would be great. Can someone poke Flo and make sure he and Lucy respond, cheers.

Shuffled holiday around, so can now run the Alton Towers trip on wednesday 12th of Septemeber and thursday 13th of september. Hopefully this means that we can now get more people going. Please let me know if you now can come, or if you now can't come ASAP so I can get things booked. Looks like Alton towers are doing 2 for the price of one tickets, will have to check t&cs on that.

So, the great Alton Towers adventure is all over. It ws over far too quickly in my opinion. But I did enjoy it immensely.

Thursday involved getting up far too early for most people's tastes and bombing in up to Staffordshire. Charlene, Pete and Joe's sister Amy slept in the back most of the way. The car proved that while it doesn't like slow speeds and travels up hills like a fat otaku, it takes motorways like the bitch they are. Stopped off in the services on the way up, where Marcus gave me a brithday flower. Asked him where he knicked it from, and it turned out he'd stollen it from the vase in the toilets...

Arrived at the park at just after 10 on thursday morning. Collected everyone except almosthonest and roadkillgerbil, who were a bit lost. Waited for the monorail and went yaah alot. Investigated various rides once in the park.

( Rides )

Went out for a meal on thurday evening to a nice hotel that did very resonable priced food, the sort of things you used to get at the Royal Oak. One table was very intellectual and talked about books and politics, while the other talked about larp. This was until they noticed Amy sitting with them, so in order to entertain her, Hobbit constructed a fectional life for the pair of them. I belive they were married, had a kid, which then drowned adn now Amy is filing for devorce or similar.

Friday was back to the park. Unfortuately the tail end of a hurricane meant that the afternoon was very, very wet. We did the water rides, as we weren't going to get any wetter. Me, Mili-chan and Marcus then went off and spent the last half hour of the day doing Nemesis, the front seat of Air, and then the Front seat of Nemesis. Nemesis in particular felt very fast on the last couple of goes. I don't know if it was the rain, or if they just cranked it up.

Then it was all over. Joe got us home safely, adn then we slept. Lots.

So, people who went:

Favourite ride, any quotes that need writing down and will you go again?