Tower of Terror

Sorry we didn't get a post up for the weekend before last. We didn't really have anything too interesting since Saturday was mainly spent on a wild goose chase to find Asda, the equivalent of Walmart over here (Walmart in fact owns them.) We were on the hunt for cheap stuff for the flat in preparation for Mom, Dad, and Jenny coming in a couple of weeks. After two tries (one was closed and the other was only a grocery store), we ended up just going to IKEA. However, on Saturday we did make it over to a place that showed some college football. Unfortunately, about 15 minutes after we had been seated, they changed all of the TV's to Rugby since a Rugby World Cup game was about to start.... oh well. On Sunday, we took all three dogs to the park which was fun as well.

This past weekend, we had decided that we had done stuffy castles and palaces a lot... we figured it was time for some low brow fun. With that in mind, we rented a car and drove out to Alton Towers. Alton Towers is a theme park that was built up around a ruined manor house. Driving out there was interesting because as we are getting there, it didn't look like there was a theme park anywhere. Plus, you go through this really small town with really narrow streets. But, we finally made it ok without getting lost.

Alton Towers is essentially like Six Flags. They have all of these sections with different themes and different rides. Plus, this was the first day that they had their Halloween celebration going on which was kind of cool. We rode most of the Roller coasters that they had, although we like the ones at Six Flags better for the most part. A lot of them were really similar, but seemed to go slower. One of the more interesting ones was the Spinball Whizzer, a rollercoaster that went out one car at a time. The car spun around randomly as you went along the track, which was pretty cool. Another good one was Oblivion, a coaster that had a vertical drop that went underground.

Because of the rollercoasters, we decided not to take our camera in, which means no pictures on this post. Sunday, all we did was run errands around town, so nothing much to report there. This is going to be another slow weekend since we are going to stay around the flat most of the time getting everything ready for Mom, Dad, and Jenny to come the weekend after!