It was the morning of a holiday! Today we’re at Hastings in a caravan after going to a surprise journey to Thorpe Park! First, we began on Swarm, which is this really awesome ride that twists you upside down and throws you downwards into great gushes of air! Since it was my first time at the rollercoaster park, I was just a tincy bit nervous (I suppose you would have been if she had seen the cart and heard the screaming people on the ride whilst waiting in the queue), but I think I got more used to it later.
It was very fun to stand there watching all the terrified faces of horror 😉 but there was definitely much more action when you were sitting in the cart! It was in rows of four, with two seats next to each other and then a bit of block, and then two seats on the other side. Tilly and I always sat next to each other in two seats of row, but we could bend our heads to see Mummy in the next seat.
Then the ride took off on a slow movement, where you could just hear the machinery clicking in the background as the cart manoeuvred us up a great metal hill, simply listening to our squeals of delight. In the back, where it’s fastest, we were listening to the hill’s hums of its own delight, which was its thoughts about how we were going to be squealing a little more in a minute…
And we did. With horrific looks on our pale, vampire-like faces, the cart dropped us downhill and we began to twist and turn and scream and cry with laughter. Then it fell again and again, as we passed valleys of lakes and trees, and miniscule, coloured dots of people looking up and shading their eyes from seeing us by the thought of being on those seats in mid-air. But we having fun – oh yes, we were having fun alright – clinging onto each other’s hands in the midst of the foggy gases.
But, even if the ride took a LONG time, the park certainly wasn’t over yet. Tilly was a little too scared to go on it, so Mummy and I went on Stealth, which was this terrifically fast and scary ride that took you from ‘3, 2, 1, go!’ to ‘aaahhh! Bleugh.’ For within no time, the rollercoaster didn’t go from slow to super fast, it went from super fast to super super fast! I understood completely why Tilly didn’t want to go on; but then again, it was very fun.
It took you upwards, really fast, without slowing down whatsoever, and spun you over the most gigantic hill you could ever come across. Then, even faster, it shot downwards, plunging you through the air, and the universe was filled with three-second screams and then nothing: for the people’s breath was out and they could not breathe to scream any longer. And then, before they even could take the wind in to have the effort to shout, the ride had stopped in being so quick.
Then we went in ‘I’m a Celebrity: Get me out of Here!’, which we were told was a maze, but really it was just a kind of creepy thing that didn’t have any rides or mazes at all, so in good speaking, it wasn’t really very good and it was a bit of a waste of time :-/
We went on Rush afterwards, which was probably one of my favourites. At the beginning, you were strapped into a long cart of seats with more seats back-to-back behind you. Then, once you were all located safely in a seat, the ride began to go backwards and forwards and very low, and then it got faster, and faster, and higher, and higher…and it felt like it never stopped – oh, yes, it did! Everyone screamed with laughter and fright as it deposited us into the air so high that when it went crashing downwards and back up again and backwards through the air, it was just so much fun we couldn’t help ourselves. We went on again and again; and again; and again…and again…phewy, we went on again again…
We went on lots more rides: Bombs Away; the Slammer; Quantum and Nemesis. First we went on Quantum, or Slammer – but yes, I think it was Quantum – which was pretty creepy! I stayed on it all by myself without Mummy or Tilly! It spun you around and threw your head back, etc. Then, I think, came the Slammer, which, too, was one of my favourites. You were strapped in tightly and then it took you in the air very slowly, and then, all of a sudden, you were spun round upside down so that you had your feet on a different footrest where your knees should have been, and you were, as I say, upside down all along! Bombs Away was one of my least favourites, though :-/ Just me and Tilly went on it. It threw you into the air and then, on the faint cry of, ‘3, 2, 1..’ The cart dropped downwards while we screamed with horrific terror..oh, it was awful!
Nemesis, I think, was the best. It made you go upside down super super fast, and then it threw you around so wildly it was definitely, completely, insistently awesome.
But we weren’t going home! Oh no! We drove right down to Hastings and found our caravan that we’re staying in for four nights.
Tilly made some delicious enchiladas with tasty beans and salad.
Then, right before bed, we had a couple of chapters of ‘Helen Keller’s Teacher’. We got into bed, finally, at 10pm! And we’ve still got three more nights left!