Easter Road Trip!

Hey Surfers!

I hope everyone is having a good Easter. I've spent the bank holiday relaxing and recuperating after a road trip to..

We had an early start at 6.30am and a three hour drive ahead so we had to resort to a tried and tested method of staying awake...

Drinking this at breakfast time is not good..

As we were going to a theme park where a lot of the time your belongings are left at risk I decided against taking my camera, so all of these pictures were taken on my phone. 

We spent most of the drive down eating snacks, listening to some very old school music and enjoying the scenery. It was a pretty overcast day but we had learnt our lesson from the Brighton trip and were both wearing layers aplenty.

There were so many beautiful mustard fields, the flowers were neon yellow.

We eventually caught sight of this and knew we were almost there

There were many winding country roads to drive down before we got to the park but we finally made it and it was such a relief to get out of the car and stretch our legs.

First order of business was to get some food and a coffee as my fingers we already turning numb.

"This mortal body has grown weak! I require sustenance!"- Thor

The Towers :)
Was showing off with the voice command for taking pictures on my phone as my hands were full of food..

 The wait time for the most popular rides got to 120 minutes within an hour so we decided to head for Air as it had a 0 minute queue; the only issue was it was on the other side of the park. We'd already lost our map and after a few failed attempts to find our way around we asked a member of staff and got directed to the Sky Ride to get across the park.

 The Sky Ride is this beast...

 It was slow and shaky and for a minute it stopped with us suspended in mid air to let others on and off but I did get a few nice pictures.

No trying to be a bad-ass on the ride.

    We managed to get onto Air with literally no wait and then went straight on to Nemesis which was near by.

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Taking on two roller coasters in such quick succession took its toll, so to give our heads a break we decided to walk back through the park gardens. They were beautiful but had a hidden secret...an obscene number of stairs. This normally wouldn't have been a huge deal but my legs were sore and stiff from the gym...needless to say, agony ensued. 

FML.

After a brief rest the next few hours were filled with pretty much back to back rides, with a short pit stop for food and souvenirs. We went on Rita and Thirteen twice each, rode Oblivion and then finished up with The Smiler. We thought that Thirteen was a ghost train and were genuinely shocked to find it was a roller coaster which DROPS YOU THOUGH THE FLOOR! Our faces in the picture were priceless.

We queued the longest for the Smiler, but the wait was only 40 minutes, which we needed to recover from the other SEVEN rides we had already been on. We somehow ended up in the front row which was an amazing way to end the day. The sun had also finally made an appearance and warmed us up.

The Smiler is insane..

By the time we had gotten off of the ride and taken a commemorative selfie it was 6:30pm and the park was closing, so we headed back to Daisy, PuddyGeeks' car, and began the long journey home.

Good bye Alton Towers

We're now both dealing with the aftermath of our excitement...My voice has completely gone and I seriously doubt that I will ever get a brush through my hair again...but it was so worth it :D

I'll see you next week, Surfers, I'm off to finish my Easter Egg 

Love E

Ergh...no more rollercoasters please...