Having gone to bed early, I also wake up early. It is so nice outside at 6:30am.
So I send Les a text. I don’t expect to get an answer mind. I get up anyway. If he doesn't want to go I’ll get on with something else instead. As it happens though he does eventually wake up.
He comes and collects me and before you know it, I ask him if he has brought the essentials. No he hasn’t and so we are off back to his house.
A while latter we are cruising up the motorway north with blue skies.
Eventually it is time to head West.
We park up in the usual place and then head by foot.
To the mecca of the northwestern coast. It’s not often you get a day like this anymore.
Inside there is an impressive queue at the ticket office.
So this is the Rainy Day Return Pass.
And here are all the items you need to bring back with you to meet the terms and conditions.
The pass as it happens, lets you either return the next day for free, or one Sunday for half price. So what happens next was unexpected. I ask if we can use the Rainy Day Return Pass, and give them the bag of bits. He looks through it and goes to see the manager. I know everything you need is in there, so I’m pondering what the argument back will be. Only that doesn’t happen either. “The manager says its okay” please give me your wrists. We are banded and
given some new passes. “Have a nice day” he says. I look at Les and say come on and we leave the ticket office.
We sit down at the cafe outside.
And Les pipes up, “I didn’t see you pay them”. “No” I reply. “They didn’t ask to be paid.”
So today is free. Even better. Even better its blue sky day.
I’m going to enjoy this. The tea, the day, the rides. There’s is one ride I’m going to particularly enjoy. Les looks at me – “Well the Big One is open this time”. But that is not what I had in mind.
We enter. There is some kind of scare fest items scattered here and there. Slightly meaningfully, slightly meaningless. Done in that half hearted Blackpool way.
I get Les to agree to go on the Valhalla. It looks closed. There is no queue. But it is open, there just isn’t a queue.
Before the boat leaves, they ensure it is filled.
Which of course means that when you get off. Your glad it is over and your not going to get any wetter.
Les I think we need to go for a spin dry.
He tells me the Big One is working. I look he is right.
He appears to be more worried right at this moment though about the spin dry.
I get him on the ride though.
We are off. This is going to be so scary.
Round and round we go.
And round
And round and round and round and round.
It is over. Thankgod. That is enough spinning. Right Says Les, how about the Big One then, as we look towards it again.
I’m thinking Les, that there is a ride right over here that I have never ever been on.
He looks and confirms that he has not been on it either.
And thus the excitement and adrenalin starts pumping.
This is going to be something wonderful.
Choices, choices.
Which horse should we choice?
This one of course for Les, Snow White I think was the name.
Are you ready for in a second we will be off! And you know what. Round and round we go.
Talking of horses, next on the non excitant agenda, was the
Grand National. We await the train to
come in.
And then we are off.
Following on from that, it looks like we are heading for the Big One.
But we don’t
This is more like it, another boat ride.
Well Les loved that and then we make our way to the other side of the park.
Where apparently the Big One is that way.
I suggest something more sedate.
This is however what I have come here for, inparticular to ride. If you read one of my earlier posts in the week, it suggested confusing the brain to ignore what it feels from our ears and to rely on your eyes.
I’m not sure it worked in all honesty.
From here the Big Dipper.
What there is a queue for.
Eventually we are on, and then back off.
And so we sit in a waltzes chair for dinner.
Here the view inside was good, the food total cheap crappy trash of the lowest kind, I’m mean really hellish low, and behind me out of the window,
Was a dam good view of the Big One.
I try to put it out of my mind.
Of course there is something else that scares me here too.
Yes that would be the revolution.
Which is why I somehow got us on the chu chu.
Your going to love this Les.
Believe me you are.
We even get to see a camel when we stay on for the more exciting second part of the ride.
From here we head to Fairy World. A world full of fairy’s, fun and frolics.
This is one of my favorites in the park
Hidden in the Nikoldiean area for the kids. It is just great for adults too.
Well after that I went to the toilet, where I tried to hid. As it happens Les followed me in so it was hard to hide in there. And so I was dragged, literally through the gate of this.
It would have been good it the queue had been longer.
In a way a wonderful thing happened.
A space for the back seat opened up.
There was some discussion with the people around just about how scared I was.
But in truth the reality of this was mere meters away. I was okay up to 150ft. And then I became really scared. at 200ft I was screaming on the way up!
At about this point I stopped screaming, and was laughing! We wooshed around and I was loving it! The train came to a stop in the station. The girl in front quickly turned around and looked at me with a huge smile. Followed by the bloke sitting next to her. “Man I was really scared” he said. “Until you started screaming on the way up. Then I realized I wasn’t as scared as you, and hell that made me feel so much better, know just how terrified you were”. We all laugh and get out of the seats.
On wards to the steeple chase.
Me and Les share a horse. And you would think that with so much weight and gravity on our side we would win the horse race. But no we lost, and not by a little bit!
As it happens as we leave the Steeplechase, I try to get Les back on the Big One.
Apparently though he hates heights more than me, and he was not going back on it. I am saddened.
And so on to the revolution.
And the 70’s rollercoaster.
Here we go again.
The thing is.
There was no queue.
So we went on it at the front.
Over and over, and over, and over again.
And yes, this really was helping the brain do one of two things. Really screw up or really screw up. The thing is this Infusion roller coater is totally wicked anyway.
Eventually though it is time the park closed.
And so we make our way back tot he entrance.
So empty now but so nice.
We have been so lucky with the Blackpool weather.
Time to say goodbye.
I can’t remember having so much fun in one day at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
We leave
And head out on to the streets, where I told Les
I wanted to see the illuminations.
He humored me.
And we went for a walk.
All the old trams were out.
Horse and carriages as well.
It looked great.
It looked well tacky.
And yeah we ate rock on the pier.
It was time to find some tea though.
And we both knew the best place to go. So we started our walk back to the car.
Walked past my favorite ride.
Down the alley
And here opposite the rides.
Was our ride home.
Les satnaved where to go and before you know it,
We were here.
Yep for tea tonight
We were going to have fish and chips. The place was full but within ten minutes they got us a table.
This was going to be great.
And it was.
And so we zoom zoomed all the way home with full bellies and brain that was utterly spun out of orbit.. What an utterly fun day. I felt great 
