Rock n Roller coaster.

So another weekend has finished and the return to work is imminent.

What did I do this weekend? I hear you scream to the rafters. Well, we had some friends come down from Brittany, so we took them to Parc Asterix, a theme park based on the little Gaul - bit like Disneyland, but smaller, cheaper and with much better rides and stuff.

It started badly. The first ride we went on was the "Grand Splatch", a nice little boat journey with a few dips and drops and water jets. Last time we went it was a cool first ride, a couple of splashes of water but nothing major. This, of course, was where the Ribby luck held out. Every single person on the boat got a little bit of water on them, except for the person sitting at the back left corner of the boat. You can probably guess who that was. Yep, thats right, we rounded a corner and the most enormous freak wave you have ever seen swamped my corner of the boat leaving everyone else untouched. I, however, was soaked. I mean really soaked - I've had baths that I've been drier in.

Later on I was seen as something of a local hero when I stopped a particularly ugly woman trying to escape from the Ghost Train.

Afterward, we went on the "Tonnerre de Zeus", a big-ass wooden roller coaster. It was great - shit scary big big drops and even one that dropped about 50metres and then continued underground, which had me soiling myself. The main problem with wooden roller coasters is that simple fact. They're wooden. The finish to the ride is a crunching stop, which causes the entire structure to move a few inches then come back. Disaster in the making I fear - and although it didn't fall over, or explode or anything I think there is a good chance it will. Peruse my artists impresion of how this would look:

BEFORE:


AFTER:


Scary thoughts eh?

Also another incredibly funny thing - I saw a young French disabled man driving round in an electric wheelchair comme Stephen Hawking and he was wearing a "Rage Against The Machine" T-shirt. I'm not sure if he saw the double meaning in that, but it had me pissing myself for some minutes.