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So after a really early start, we arrived at Flamingoland around an hour and half later to be greeted by closed gates and a further half an hour of sitting outside the gates. But we amused ourselves quite easily by stealing vadge's shoes and socks and sticking them on windscreen wipers.
Half an hour later we were in and parked right at the front of the car park ready for the day ahead. Most of us ran directly to the ticket booths and then straight through the turnstiles to the toilets! After yet another half an hour wait, we made our way over to the first ride of the day which was the Runaway Train.
After our early morning doseage of pain, we intended to go to Velocity but it had a bit of a problem, so instead headed to the Wild Mouse for another shot of pain.
I did not enjoy having my boobs squashed against the bar on every corner and set of block breaks.
After Mouse, we saw Velocity was back up and running again, so we went for some motorbike action before the queue built up.
Velocity remains my best ride at Flamingo, great launch and it's fun with the motorbike seats.
Following Velocity, we had a spot of Navigator action! I sat out and took photos as I don't really like the shorter Disk-o rides.
Rob's I cba with this anymore look is amusing in this photo.
Corkscrew and Dragon had now opened, so we went over there for that. Corkscrew was first which was a must ride for me considering how much I miss Corkscrew at Alton.
I'm also glad to see that they have removed the ear cushions from it!
Corkscrew was a bit bumpy, but I enjoyed it cause it brought back memories.
Sat out of Dragon as the night befores lack of sleep was starting to catch up with me and I was feeling a bit bleugh from it. I'm glad I managed to fall asleep in the car on the way up (even if I was being bumped awake every so often).
After everyone had finished whoring, we headed over to Splosh for Flip Flop and Splash Battle. I really wanted to ride Flip Flop this year, but felt too ill to ride when the group done it so sat out and took photos.
We headed for Splash Battle next, I sat out again as I hadn't brought any spare clothes with me. But I did run through the water play area a few times with Vadge and Tanya trying to cool down a bit!
It was great fun taking photos of the Splash Battle action!
I opted for home brought food with Vadge, Jordan and Mander. We sat under a tree in the shade on some grass (which is a very rare occurrence at Flamingoland). Once we had left the bench, we went to the near by pub where we were joined by Nadia, Ed and Tom.
At half 1, we left the pub and headed for Cliffhanger for meet up. I <3 Cliffhanger. The shot and drop mode is fantastic! Brilliant ride.
Vadge had a bit of a accident, her arm had burned and when she took the plaster off, there was a nice white plaster mark.
After Cliffhanger, we went onto the slides and faffed a bit while people were packing up cake and taking photos of Jumbo. (Me included there)
Once we had finished faffing, it was time to move onto the longest queue of the day for Kumali. We waited about half an hour for it as the throughput was truly awful. One train would've been fine if the staff hadn't let through 2 train loads of disabled/queue cutting people and then repeatedly checked the restraints.
Do the restraints really need checking when the train comes into the station? Quite terrible really.
And the ride wasn't all that good either, my poor ears and the thing is aging badly!
We headed for the Pile of **** next where I found a rock with some shade to sit on.
Luckily, this rock was a perfect spot for taking photos of the ride.
We had run out of decent things to do by now and were all starting to flag slightly, so we headed over to the People Moover to get over to the zoo side of the park.
When we got over the other side of the park, we done the tractors and most of the group headed for the Zoo.
Me and Vadge could not be arsed with the zoo, so we caught the people moover back over to the other side of the park. While waiting for the thing to come, we saw some people we recognized being whores on the Go Gator.
Our people Moover train came then. We got in and headed back to the other side of the park. While on the way back we got teased by Flip Flop, so decided to go on it.
My GOD that thing is awesome. The airtime is fantastic. Really enjoyed it even if it did make me feel a bit off for about 5 minutes after.
Now getting fed up of the sun and having phoned Ian who told us to meet back at 5:45 at Jumbo decided to go for some chips and a play on the 2p machines cause the heat was now scorching.
Messed around for a while then headed back over to Jumbo (via Cliffhanger for me).
I decided to ride Cliffhanger again as I love it. I also witnessed a train load of CF goons go round Jumbo. And as expected one said they'd been on it as we walked past.
Met back up and done the terrible group photos and then waited for the Jumbo queue to empty while having water fights and various other messing abouts.
Nick gave us the go ahead around 20 minutes later to go on and ride. To maximize the amount of rides we got, we were asked to make 4s, but some people insisted on riding in the group they had made and not how they were coming up. This pissed quite a few people off. We're all friends for god sake!
I managed 4 rides and I really enjoyed it! The front was better than the back. Out of the 4 rides, 3 were at the front. I really enjoyed the ride! Thought it was great. Really exceeded my expectations. The drop was fantastic and the inversions were brilliant to. Really liked the dive thingy that was good fun!
That was it then. Sad thanks to the staff and headed for the exit via the toilet! We all left and headed for a well deserved rest ready for the most ultimate ERT session ever.
Really fantastic day, throughly enjoyed it and was the better day of the two!
