Hindsight.

Last Wednesday me and my housemates finally decided to stop being lazy and go to THORPE PARK - for those of you not in the U.K, that's a theme park - and it's very near to our house which makes us seem even more like lethargic students. Well anyway, we went on pretty much every ride there was in the park - which seems like the ideal thing to do - but water rides in winter you say? Yes even those. See this is the thing, the first water ride we went on was pretty chillaxed and by that i mean we got a few splashes here and there - everyone was fairly dry. Thus making the whole thing fun and non-threatening. However, after this first taste of water we were fairly pumped and decided to go on a more extreme water ride called Tidal Wave (you'd think the name in itself would be a warning but no we decided to ignore that). Our saner housemate, Cecilia, decided to sit this one out, so me, Ana and Luigi went right ahead. Another thing that should have put us off (but didn't) was the sight of people who had just been on the ride - and were literally dripping wet. So we got in and as soon as you sat down on your seat your bum was immediately soaked from the amount of water that had gone on the seats from the previous turns. Still, we were pretty sure we'd made the right decision. So as soon as the thing plunges downwards and the water makes a splash you think 'Oh that wasn't that bad' - but there's a 3 second pause before you get TOTTALY DRENCHED. To demonstrate the immense nature of this drenching would be to tell you this; Ana had her water-proof coat zipped all the way up but the water still managed to seep under it. But that's not the least of our stupidity. Me and Luigi thought it would be a good idea to go on it again - Ana being slightly wiser than us got off while she could. And since there were no queues (it was a weekday) you didn't have to line up again to go on it a second time, you just got plunged straight back down once you'd come up. This was mine and Luigi's crazy logic - 'We're so wet, we CAN'T possibly get any more wet' - GUESS AGAIN suckers. And fair enough, if it was a sunny summer's day, but no it was mid-autumn chills. So we were pretty much wet for the rest of the day - despite going on numerous roller coasters in a series of attempts to get dry fast. There were various human dryers around the park though - you had to pay £2 for 3 minutes worth of drying which is clearly a rip off but there were these kids with loadsa change who kept topping up the machine so we got a few free goes. But these didn't help, they just made the cold wetness into warm wetness and as soon as you stepped out of them you were pretty freezing again. Here's a picture of us in the futile dryer: