Ian said:
Not saying goodbye to Pierre. See ya, Pierre.
Yeah sorry about that, my plan was to find out where my mate was and rejoin him for the last couple of hours, just so happens he was coming off the Skyride at Charlie as I rang him so had to leave, think I only said bye to delpiero and Ciall!
So yeah, I turned up and was greeted by furie which was just as well as I didn't really have a clue who anyone else was :lol: After watching workmen grafting on Smiler's shaft for a while we headed back to the main entrance where we were waiting for a few late arrivals (I soon understood why Sue gets her nickname
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After Smiler rage at the biscuits we fed the ducks, and laughed as one was kind of determined to eat a dropped Skittle from the Amazing Furie's Catch-Skittles-In-Mouth act - it struggled like mad and decided to just spit it out in the end, lol.
We headed straight over to Forbidden Valley when the majority where there and went straight on Nemesis... I sat next to minor_furie and had to ask his name and who he was as I didn't recognise him with all that hair! I pulled a frowner face for the ORP but it just looked like I had downs syndrome.
Blade was done by the majority of the group next, I kept up tradition and sat out of this, as I do with ALL swinging ships! Took a while for the Coaster...Force shouts to get going, then they turned into something else which I didn't quite understand haha.
The rest of the group were finally here and we headed straight for Sub-Terror. Shouty man was hilarious, particularly when shouting at Dan. I hate horror rides and despite the fact I knew what was going to happen I still **** myself. I seem to remember that 'rush out' was a lot scarier last time though, maybe it's because I knew what was going to happen.
We went on to Duel but before we did, we waited for Sue who went to the toilet and then came wandering out of the gift shop ten minutes later :lol: I've always loved Duel and I loved it even more this time because the spinny-tunnel-of-sickness wasn't spinning - AWESOME. I spotted that the high score of the day was at 56,000 which led me to believe the majority of the other goon groups hadn't got round to Duel just yet
I only scored around 31,000. We were on the first train full of non-Ian faces, I didn't see the ORP until I bumped into Ciall and Radaxian later in the day, brilliant :lol:
We headed onto RMT, the queue looked horrendous but they had all the overflow closed off that was why. I was sat at the front of the group so kind of missed out on Safety Steve and the whole 'STEVE! ALAN!' situation. I did bump into silenthillXD and had to explain my joke about the fact he singed up, jokes are never as funny when you have to explain. He seemed like a nice lad though, never spoke to him much of the day after though.
The rapids weren't very rapidy apart from viciously bumping me side to side when we were 'parking' on the lift hill.
We then went to lunch, pizza & pasta buffet. Jordan whipped out her AP which got us all discount so thanks for that Jordan! I was sat next to DelPiero82 for a while so thought I better introduce myself, we have football in common (a rarity on this site!) so had a bit of a chat about that. Then Jordan shouted at us for having non-goon talk so soon turned talk into 'creds' haha. I had **** loads of pizza and pasta, with two slices of cucumber and a shaving of sliced carrot to make me feel a bit better
We met up with the group @ Th13teen but not without stopping to harrass a pirate on the way there - the katanga canyon music is also very annoying so I was pleased to get out of that area. There was a bit of a wait for burdens and some of us were going to ride Rita on single-rider but the queue was horrendous, mission aborted. We queued for Th13teen which was a longish queue but made quite enjoyable by typical CF behaviour and Haribo. I scared Manderrrr in the queue because I know how easily frightened she is.
We got on Th13teen, the ride ops were Marie and Ron, we were talking to Marie, then as the train was about to go Manda said "who's this one, its Ron! Cya later Ron... ahhhh Cya Later On!!" which amused her for the entirety of the lift hill. As the ride dropped, Ed slapped his hands on my shoulders which made me jump a little
some expletives where thrown in his direction afterwards.
We then had another burdenous wait as Th13teen broke. It was after this I left to rejoin my mate for a couple of hours, so apologies about the abrupt departure.
We rode Oblivion and I saw everyone in the queue as we were stacked on the brake run. We then rode Spinball which was the first time I've ever queued for it in the normal queue. The couple of games in there are fun, I'm easily amused.
As me and my friend were waiting for the other two, a group of CFer's passed us, I held up a ticket for someone to revalidate and it was like when a bunch of ducks attack each other for a slice of bread thrown to them on the pond - Ed was the victorious drake.
I then chatted with Ciall and Radaxian (who I now believe is Selena? :lol: ) which was when I saw the duel ORP. It was nice to meet 'Radaxian' for the first time too anyway, I assume you both got your lift to the train station OK?
As said in my earlier post, it was lovely to meet people again and I was quite overwhelmed at the amount of new people, hence my quietness, apologies about that, will make it up next time
And if anyone's using their revalidated ticket for Smiler next month at some point, holler!!!
Cheers CF
