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home :: 31 August 2011

Summer hols. This year: Blackpool.
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Ry at Blackpool beach.
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This is J at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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I went on this tower ride thing which spits you 200ft into the air. Nearly soiled my damn pants. Note the UFO caught in this picture(!). Yeah right.
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Nickelodeon Land at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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This is the Derby Racer ride. Went quite fast actually. I was hung on for dear life.
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Derby Racer ride.
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Me and Ry sat on one of the horses at the Derby Racer ride.
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Me and Ry at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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Another one of J in front of a rollercoaster.
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J drove one of the cars in the Grand Prix ride by himself.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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Nickleodeon Land at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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I went on with Ry for this one. It was another tower one, in a building shaped like the Krusty Krab.
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Nickleodeon Land at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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Lu went on this rollercoaster with J. Look carefully and you can see Lu.
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The Nickleodeon rollercoaster. J also went on another rollercoaster with me which was even bigger, but we didn't get a picture of that. The Pleasure Beach is actually quite forgiving about things like ride height sizes and health and safety, which on one hand was quite refreshing. But on the other, in the same week we were at Blackpool here, a young lad fell out of a ride at the Camelot theme park and a woman lost a leg on a log flume at Bridlington.
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Me and the wife at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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OK enough Pleasure Beach. On another day out we visited Chester Zoo.
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Herewith follows stock images of kids and animals.
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More animals. My favourite was the bat cave because I have a deep love of bats. Couldn't do flash photography in there though so didn't get any pictures. Chester Zoo is alright but its a good job Lu printed out some money-saving vouchers for it beforehand because its not cheap. And it's only a zoo, it's no Longleat or Dan-Yr-Ogof.
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Chester Zoo's big draw this year was a few plastic anamatronic dinosaurs in a car park or something. To make you feel a bit better about parting with your £70, or whatever.
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Dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs.
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Lu at Chester Zoo.
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We stayed at the Haven park at Blackpool. Blackpool is alright actually, a bit tacky, but a good place to go for a week. The Pleasure Beach was awesome and worth the entrance fee. Chester Zoo was a place with animals in. We had a great time overall.
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