We all got up and drove up to Alton Towers, we got there early to beat the queues. We knew it was going to rain, so we brought an umbrella just in case. so waiting for the gates to open, it starts pouring down, no big deal. 9:30 gates open, so we run (in dad's case, he limped :p) over to rita to get inline, the ride starts testing at 9:45, three launches and the queue line opens. we start queueing and one ride gets launched, looks fun. then it starts having technical difficulties, 1 hour 20 minutes later, RITA GETS CLOSED DOWN!! so theres 1 hour 30 we lost. also corkscrew was having problems but opened later but the black hole was down all day. so we go over to oblivion and have a quick go on that. over to to nemesis and air. we queue for 40 mins and get on nemesis and then go over to air. 50 minute queue or so they say, not too bad, it ends up that we were waiting for 1 hour 20 mins, because of more 'technical difficulties' so we eventually get on, ride it and then it breaks down with us on the ride. so here we are stuck on the brake run in the 'flying posiition' 30 mins later we find that they dont know when it will be fixed. so we get evacuated from the ride and were given priority passes all day....WOO! so off to ride nemesis again before lunch, and joy of joys, NEMESIS BREAKS DOWN. off to merrie england for lunch, we go to the BBQ place and order 2 beef baguettes, NO BEEF! after luch, we get on spinball whizzer, enterprise, submission, oblivion, rita, spinball again, rita then denied us, then nemesis and air again, before going on nemesis for the last ride of the day.
my thoughts TEST THE RIDE BEFORE YOU OPEN THEM!!!!! 3 ISN'T ENOUGH!!!
EDIT: while stuck on air it rained and hailed [:D]