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Giant Coaster at Crystal Beach

And people wonder why I don't like Ferris wheels!

Day 3: Alton Towers Alton Towers was another favorite park of mine on the trip. One reason for this was I have been wanting to ride Nemesis for like ten years, ever since I saw it on a coaster TV show. Nemesis was the most anticipated coaster for me anywhere in the world because I have known about it for so long. Actually seeing and riding it for the first time was like a dream. For the first time, it really hit me that I WAS over in the UK, doing something I have always wanted to do. OK, I'll shut up now. Fast, intense, fun, and crazy. Mmmm Nemesis. The station is themed to be the Nemesis monster. Its legs turn into "track". It's SO DARN COOL LOOKING Seriously, this thing was built 12 years ago! And it's AWESOME! FINALLY, we rode Nemesis. And, oh my God! It was amazing! This part of the ride was a little confusing, but still felt cool IMO. I really enjoyed this coaster; it was my first B&M flyer. I found the restraints to be very comfortable and the flying sensation was very cool. So we rode Air instead. Prepare for Air! Derek tortured me with nemesis. We had to ride like everything else in the park before we could ride Nemesis! OBLIVION, the coaster my mom's obsessed with. It was merely "OK". I was quite impressed with the size of the trains and the track. Next was Spinball Whizzer, which did not spin us nearly as much as Dragon's Fury, and I therefore did not like it as much The day started out with Rita, my first Intamin launched coaster. It was fun but not anything special. The Towers... we did not go inside, but I will make a point of doing that next time I'm there Hey, look, there's Oblivion peeking out from behind a bush... and Tommy peeking into the shot Alton Towers has lots of purple flowers

Day 2: Oakwood Oakwood was one of my favorite parks on the trip. New for this year is Speed, a Gerstlauer Eurofighter which I LOVED. The vertical lift hill felt very cool and odd, and the airtime hill was INSANE! It gave me a bruise on my right shoulder that didn't go away until the add-on. Another cool thing we did at Oakwood was the Crystal Maze. My team won even though the computer crashed during one of our games. Go team Lady Gay! I also rode my first alpine slide, but refrained from the vertical slide cause I didn't want to die just yet. I thought Megafobia was awesome, but we only had time to ride it twice. Oakwood was a really cool park; I will definitely try to get back there some day. Bye bye Oakwood, we had a lot of fun inside you today Oakwood has a vertical lift, more than vertical drop, vertical loop, vertical slide, and vertical water ride! Why is Tom so mad at his shoe??? Yo yo yo, it's Homie Clown Bill! Tom yells at the sheep, but they are too far away to be frightened by him! Here are the Coaster Sheep that created the minefield of poo Signature shot! During the Megafobia walkback, Derek discovered he has the power to turn into a tree We got a photo walkback and had lots of poo to avoid stepping in Mmm... Megafobia Either Tom is hungry or he's about to hurl! Treetops is a fun ride! This does not qualify as credit whoring. The only person who looks excited in this picture is Paul! Helix of awesomeness... I seriously LOVE this ride. We need some in the US (closer to me than Dollywood!) Oh how I love this ride. Here come a train full of happy riders. Check out what Speed did to Bill's beard! On the first ride, we heard someone yell "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!" at this point. This saying was repeated many times throughout the trip and became its theme We had morning ERT on this delicious creation

^^Ohhh, look at that shirt! You tool!

I had no internet on your birthday joe! lol

Day 1: Coney Beach What can I say about Coney Beach? It was pretty ghetto and scary. But I got two credits, which compensated for the two coasters that would be closed at Southport later in the trip! Some lovely theming. I feel so safe! Then a bunch of tools valleyed the powered coaster Look at all those credit whores. Jeff and Lou risk their lives for a credit! Next up was Nessi, a lovely kiddie coaster I was expecting it to be a lot more painful than it actually was. The sandbag theming was a nice touch. Credit #1: Megablitz, my first ever Pinfari Welcome to Coney Beach, be sure to wash your hands after touching ANYTHING

Aww, I wish we would have gone into the castle. Oh well, that'll be for next time!!

Day 1: Chessington World of Adventures Chessington is a park that believes strongly in the use of stairs. Stairs going up, stairs going down, many for no reason at all. They have a really cute zoo section, which we checked out after conquering the park in less than two hours. Well, the morning ERT helped. No disco dancing on the monorail! Finally, after searching all day for the entrance, we rode the monorail Chessington has a cool log flume also. Score on the left = mine = 10800. Score on the right = Derek's = 800! Ha ha! Tomb Blaster is a fun dark ride that you have to climb up two flights of stairs, and then back down two flights of stairs, to get to Why did I take this picture? You decide! Burnt Stub??????? In the zoo section, we found out that Derek runs faster than a skunk (and smells better than one also)! We watched the Sea Lion show. There was one sea lion that just swam back and forth and didn't do anything; we named him "Robb" House Bastard! Up next was Rattlesnake, mouse with very cool theming. Finally, Derek decides to grab somebody else's boobs for a change! I LOVE this ride! And boy, did it spin us good! Next up: Dragon's Fury, a Maurer Sohne spinning mouse I found the ride to be boring, but I guess no suspended can beat Vortex at PCW. Morning ERT started off at Vampire, an Arrow suspended with Vekoma floorless trains. The station was AWESOME!

Oh crap! Happy birthday yesterday, Ed!

Happy birthday Tom! I had a lot of fun hanging out with you on the UK trip. Team Lady Gay rules!

Day 0: Legoland Legoland is a fun park that has the best teacups I experienced on the trip. I also got my #50 coaster credit: Jungle Coaster. In addition to Jungle Coaster, Legoland has two kiddie coasters by WGH Transportation: Dragon and Dragon's Apprentice. Despite all the cool stuff at Legoland, I managed to take startlingly few pictures! "Hmm, I wonder what this sauce sounds like." They're Doritos with random lettuce on top. WTF That night, we had dinner at the pub across the street. These are Elissa's "Nachos" Like this murder scene and shoving the dead body in the luggage compartment! Miniland was really neat, and had a few hilarious things Robb is Elissa's knight in plastic armor Derek goes the wrong way and almost kills a child! Elissa demonstrates the proper way to ride a slide

Elissa won a beach... blanket.. thingy Have you forgotten about the deep fryer, Robb? If you had to choose between that and the meat slicer, which would you choose?

i see retainers

Originally I wasn't going to make a photo trip report, but as you can see, I changed my mind. This trip was all kinds of hilarious fun. I really enjoyed hanging out with people I've been talking to online for many months, as well as those who I did not know previous to the trip. The coasters and parks were great, but I would not have had nearly as good a time had the people not been so awesome. Page 1: London, Legoland, Chessington Worlds of Adventure, Coney Beach, Oakwood Page 2: Alton Towers, Drayton Manor, Pleasureland Southport, Blackpool Pleasure Beach Part 1 Page 3: Blackpool Pleasure Beach Part 2 Page 4: Blackpool Pleasure Beach Part 3 Page 6: Lightwater Valley Page 7: Flamingoland, Pleasurewood Hills Page 8: Joyland, Thorpe Park Page 10: Tusenfryd Part 1 Page 11: Tusenfryd Part 2, Liseberg Day 00: London I flew over with Paul. At the airport we met up with Jay and went for a little afternoon sightsee. It was a billion and a half degrees that day and we were all drenched with sweat. How pleasant! lol. And the London Eye! Next up: Legoland! Globe Theatre Other cool stuff we saw: Big Ben I did get to see some cool armor though It's really nice, but I didn't get to see anyone being tortured. I love visiting historic places like this. Next, we went over to the Tower. My main goal was to see some torture. Paul, I didn't know you opened a patisserie in London! We're so awesome It provided us with a beautiful view of London, and the stairs scared the heck out of me Our first stop was St. Paul's Cathedral "This train is for Cockfosters." Tee hee hee! Welcome to the tube, please mind the gap "It would be even better if it was a carpet service!" - Paul

Dude, so did you go like right from Costa Rica to the UK? I'm so jealous! Back of the bus crew 4evah! \m/

This is what they should do with SFDL: Boomerang, Mind Eraser, Twister - Sell Water slides - Sell Everything else - bulldoze

HUS & HEM

Ohhhhh helllllll yeeeesssssss!!!!!!!!!!! \m/ effing sweet!

Lisebergbanan - Liseberg Picture from RCDB

Oh, praise the lord, I come back from the UK trip and Blue0ctane is banned!

Balder at Liseberg Air on EVERY hill. Sometimes all the way down the drop.

Awww, yay Dave! You crack me up, you really do. EEEHHH

Yeah Lou, I noticed lots of spitting Norwegians also! And ones that didn't understand the meaning of "personal space"

Ugh. Stupid Thundercoaster. Stupid rain. Stupid Speed Monster. I'm a little disgruntled against that day, I didn't have very much fun, lol.