Day 1 - Heide Park
We arrived in Germany around the scheduled time, but there was a small spurt of faff with the hire cars (little did we know that would set the trend for the day). Whilst this was going on and Will was beginning his love-hate relationship with the European wasps, I took it upon myself to have a quick nap in the taxi rank. My bag made a comfortable pillow!
We got the cars and set off on our journey to Heide park, on the way to Heide Park we noticed Europe was a lot more greener than the UK
And noticed Hoyer was with us in spirit on the trip!
Sooo, we arrived at Heide Park (miles away from the entrance) to be greeted by the 'mystery guests' ... JERRY AND THE KID! The entrance was really smart, I didn't take a photo of the hotel we walked past but that looked pretty classy too.
We got everyone in and found out Colossos was broke so ERT had been switched to Desert Racer. Fine by me I thought... until I saw Colossos in the flesh, or the wood, whatever, and WOW it looked awesome. Every ride I went on through the day I saw Colossos and just thought to myself how much of a shame it was that the best looking ride in the park was closed!
After much faffage of getting drinks (which I was a part of WOO!) and about 20 nerds taking the same shot of the statue of liberty across the lake, we headed to the bobsled type coaster thing.
It was the peak of the day then and we realised it really was rather hot, Ian made Manda a makeshift hat, see park maps do come into use, even for coastery-know-it-all-nerds!!
The bobsled thing pissed all over Blackpools and was really long, yay for first credit of the week.
We then walked over towards some kiddie credits but the group got massively distracted by slush fountains, I didn't fancy slush so I took this photo of a broken Colossos.
We did some funky mine train next, I can't remember much about it apart from some German guy speaking German to me on the exit and me replying "Errr sorry mate I don't speak English" ... yes Pierre IS a spaz.
We then went to the kiddie credit, where Will got his first calendar pose out, this was my wallpaper on my phone for the rest of the day.
A few of us then did the rapids, I almost fell asleep on them, BORRRRING, but as we left they had FRIKADELLE AND BEER (must remember the German word for Beer is BEER, not ALKOHOLFREI, silly Pierre). This was a fun game and Frikadelle was nice! We then went to ride Big Loop, which the loop wasn't really that big, and the ride was so smooth it was a bit dull.
After that we had arranged to meet at Colossos shop at 6pm and it was 5.20pm, a few of us risked a queue for Limit (of which it was only a ten minute queue) and was the WORST SLC I have been on
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although Terra Miticas came quite close!
We headed on over to the Colossos shop and as a way of saying sorry they had wheeled over champagne on ice, Pierre was happy and suddenly decided Heide Park was his new favourite park. While enjoying this unexpected surprise, they tested Colossos, and... YAY we got a go!
OH MY GOD, best woodie I have been on, brilliant! I also loved the spontaneous round of applause and cheers as the train set off, great atmosphere and I'm sure that was well appreciated.
Here is Jerry POV'ing and Martyn just P'ing with excitement
But wait hang on, we skipped Desert Racer throughout the day as we were having ERT on it? NO PROBLEM Heide Park gave us a priority ride on that too! Similar to Rita, I like the music in the station better on Desert Racer, makes the launch a bit more tense, but other than that they're identical (even with the slightly different ending)
I loved the ride ops seat in the front of the helicopter, she looked like she loved it too.
Mark then had to purchase an ashtray he saw last time he was at Heide, which was uber-cool I have to say!
So all in all, a great day to start the week, the weather was amazing, the unexpected ride of Colossos with light-headedness from Champers was a beaut, we got all the credits and the food/drink was nice too! Everyone settled in really well and it really set the tone for the week (apart from the faff, that got a lot less as went on through the week thankfully).
My only disappointment of the day was not riding much else than the coasters (in fact it was only the rapids) but with it being a major chain park it was kind of expected so cool times
TUESDAY PLZ.