Post by Stu on Aug 7, 2005 12:50:52 GMT
Saturday 16th October 2004 was officially National Chessington Day, I'd managed to persuade my non member friend Gary to adjoin me on the ECC trip to the park, with the promise of ERS on Vampire and Dragons Fury
We left High Wycombe at ridiculous o'clock, travelling by train we'd arranged everything with precision the arrival at the park despite by public transport was going to be more streamline than a military operation, we even had organised to bring Frosties and milk to eat on the tube!
Due to work on the rail line, we were transfer onto a bus, and drove through small picturesque Buckinghamshire villages, when reaching West Ruislip we could make the journey by tube however Gary felt like he had something in his eye, when we got off the bus and into the light of the station we could see there was something very wrong with Gary’s right eye, it had swollen up hugely so much so his face was nearly unrecognisable, he had contracted a lethal case of 'theme park eye'
Stumbling around West Ruislip at 6am we were trying to find directions to the nearest hospital, without any luck, we then tried to phone the number for the only taxi company we could find in the area, and he couldn't get to us for an hour and a half, so we decided we may as well find our way back to Wycombe, when by chance we saw some paramedics parked beside the station,
Fortunately they weren't busy at the time and kindly took a look at his eye, the diagnosis was he'd had something in there which had gone now, and he should go to Chessington and have fun and quote "say you did it on one of the rides and sue them!"
The paramedic's latex gloved hand obviously had magic touch as the swelling began to fade, and after some Frosties and funny looks on the tube, Gary's eye was nearly fine by the time we got to Chessington . . .
^ . . . however as you can see in this photo taken just after we arrived, it was still a bit inflamed
The delay meant we arrived at the park, later than the arranged meet time, so we had to find how to get in and onto the ERS on Vampire, the entrance area was like been in a tin of sardines we had to push our way through a sea of school children, to the guest services window, we were told to wait around the side of the kiosk and eventually a member of staff came out and found our, and internet superstar Ben Hodgson's, name badges in a box, we were then lead by a member of staff through the sardine tin crowd of school children, and through the gate early like the VIPs we were
^ keep them covered up, there are small children about
The route all the way to Vampire was lined with friendly Chessington staff wishing us a good morning and pointing us in the direction of the ride, when we got to Vampire the ERS was half way through and we managed several rides
The ERS concluded with the opening of the park to the great un-hosed public, so we decided to take a trip into the Bubbleworks before their filth contaminated the waters, and mainly cause Gary had never been to Chessington before and I was keen to show him the greatness of the park, and point out all the fart jokes
^ all the udders lactate when Mr Nichols' is in town
^ wonder how they make the bubbles
^ I knew Gary would feel at home inside the bubbleworks, and yes he attempted to fart, so see if it would register on the scale at this point
Safari Skyway was next, this was the first time I'd entered up the exit route, as they do these days when there's only one ride attendant operating the ride, the lions were having a scrap
^ arghhh now gary's got 'theme park eye' in both eyes!
From the monorail we spied a commotion in the Market Square area, there was a Halloween show taking place, with a camp wizard and the Chessington goblins, and Count Batty, who did an 'usher' dance routine
^ Jinx, my favourite of the goblins however the key rings in the gift shops are orange not red, grr!
^ Stinx . . . not the performance, it's the puppet's name
^ the count shows us how to 'usher'
^ did that goblin just ejaculate over me?
^ gary's magic point made the rock work disappear!
^ gary's roguish menace
^ stu's erotica menace
^ woo yay we were allowed on the flying jumbos
^ we were even allowed to duel each other on the Zamperla imitation frog hoppers, and the ride op gave us two cycles without having to get off, chessington's staff rock!
^ the Halloween event at Chessington is more comedy than horror, signs warned of low flying witches
^ it took four hours and a degree in civil engineering but we filled those one price pic n mix cups to the max!
After the park closed, the group rendezvoused outside Fury, where group photos were taken, you can see us on the ECC's trips gallery website we're on the far right of the photo in the second row, this is the only photo we appear in, as we weren't wearing ECC branded t-shirts, so when we came in on Fury or Vampire the cameras were put away!
^ gary points to the magical badge of wonder that lets you play when the park is closed to the public, woo
^ hands up if you like Dragon's Fury moist
^ woo we can take cameras on the ride!
Well what a fantastic and very fun day, I spent most of the day laughing hysterically, great time thanks to all the other ECC members who were there and were so friendly, especially the guy who came onto Gary and scarred him!
We left High Wycombe at ridiculous o'clock, travelling by train we'd arranged everything with precision the arrival at the park despite by public transport was going to be more streamline than a military operation, we even had organised to bring Frosties and milk to eat on the tube!
Due to work on the rail line, we were transfer onto a bus, and drove through small picturesque Buckinghamshire villages, when reaching West Ruislip we could make the journey by tube however Gary felt like he had something in his eye, when we got off the bus and into the light of the station we could see there was something very wrong with Gary’s right eye, it had swollen up hugely so much so his face was nearly unrecognisable, he had contracted a lethal case of 'theme park eye'
Stumbling around West Ruislip at 6am we were trying to find directions to the nearest hospital, without any luck, we then tried to phone the number for the only taxi company we could find in the area, and he couldn't get to us for an hour and a half, so we decided we may as well find our way back to Wycombe, when by chance we saw some paramedics parked beside the station,
Fortunately they weren't busy at the time and kindly took a look at his eye, the diagnosis was he'd had something in there which had gone now, and he should go to Chessington and have fun and quote "say you did it on one of the rides and sue them!"
The paramedic's latex gloved hand obviously had magic touch as the swelling began to fade, and after some Frosties and funny looks on the tube, Gary's eye was nearly fine by the time we got to Chessington . . .
^ . . . however as you can see in this photo taken just after we arrived, it was still a bit inflamed
The delay meant we arrived at the park, later than the arranged meet time, so we had to find how to get in and onto the ERS on Vampire, the entrance area was like been in a tin of sardines we had to push our way through a sea of school children, to the guest services window, we were told to wait around the side of the kiosk and eventually a member of staff came out and found our, and internet superstar Ben Hodgson's, name badges in a box, we were then lead by a member of staff through the sardine tin crowd of school children, and through the gate early like the VIPs we were
^ keep them covered up, there are small children about
The route all the way to Vampire was lined with friendly Chessington staff wishing us a good morning and pointing us in the direction of the ride, when we got to Vampire the ERS was half way through and we managed several rides
The ERS concluded with the opening of the park to the great un-hosed public, so we decided to take a trip into the Bubbleworks before their filth contaminated the waters, and mainly cause Gary had never been to Chessington before and I was keen to show him the greatness of the park, and point out all the fart jokes
^ all the udders lactate when Mr Nichols' is in town
^ wonder how they make the bubbles
^ I knew Gary would feel at home inside the bubbleworks, and yes he attempted to fart, so see if it would register on the scale at this point
Safari Skyway was next, this was the first time I'd entered up the exit route, as they do these days when there's only one ride attendant operating the ride, the lions were having a scrap
^ arghhh now gary's got 'theme park eye' in both eyes!
From the monorail we spied a commotion in the Market Square area, there was a Halloween show taking place, with a camp wizard and the Chessington goblins, and Count Batty, who did an 'usher' dance routine
^ Jinx, my favourite of the goblins however the key rings in the gift shops are orange not red, grr!
^ Stinx . . . not the performance, it's the puppet's name
^ the count shows us how to 'usher'
^ did that goblin just ejaculate over me?
^ gary's magic point made the rock work disappear!
^ gary's roguish menace
^ stu's erotica menace
^ woo yay we were allowed on the flying jumbos
^ we were even allowed to duel each other on the Zamperla imitation frog hoppers, and the ride op gave us two cycles without having to get off, chessington's staff rock!
^ the Halloween event at Chessington is more comedy than horror, signs warned of low flying witches
^ it took four hours and a degree in civil engineering but we filled those one price pic n mix cups to the max!
After the park closed, the group rendezvoused outside Fury, where group photos were taken, you can see us on the ECC's trips gallery website we're on the far right of the photo in the second row, this is the only photo we appear in, as we weren't wearing ECC branded t-shirts, so when we came in on Fury or Vampire the cameras were put away!
^ gary points to the magical badge of wonder that lets you play when the park is closed to the public, woo
^ hands up if you like Dragon's Fury moist
^ woo we can take cameras on the ride!
Well what a fantastic and very fun day, I spent most of the day laughing hysterically, great time thanks to all the other ECC members who were there and were so friendly, especially the guy who came onto Gary and scarred him!
