Windsor Exploration

Well it started with my very first organised tour that I have ever willingly being on as only having 3 hours sleep I couldn’t really be arsed to work the whole thing out.
After a bit of confusion with our tickets (as we are the only ones actually going to LegoLand) we board the bus with the average age of about 60 years olds. Just when I thought I was about to have a relaxing journey out of London, I hear this mindless chatter over the speakers to which it’s our tour guide, who we have dubbed Marry Poppins, rambling on about all sorts of mindless facts about London. I can’t even tell you what she was talking about as after about the first sentence I was asleep to the tunes of my MP3 player.

After a rather peaceful sleep we awoke in the royal city of Windsor to check out the Queen’s house. Not only is Winsor know for it’s royal connections but it also has the shortest street in the UK and a leaning tea house!!, who woulda thought.
I really couldn’t think of a worse thing to do when your sleep deprived, that of tramping round a overly lavish house. Luckily that’s where our leg of being with the tour group finished, we where free to go where we wanted and where handed bus tickets to get back to London.
Now don’t get me wrong, the Queen seems like an alright bird, god knows what she actually does or why she needs such a big house, but is it really necessary to have gold plated ceilings and walls? Although the gun collection was quite impressive the rest was just pretty much so-so . Suell seemed to enjoy it though, all I wanted was to get a picture with the fluffy hated guard and get the hell to LegoLand.

We where the on the bus to LegoLand, this was what I had being waiting for. Being a self confessed Lego freak back in the day I couldn’t wait to go to a theme park where everything is built from Lego. Well turns out it aint, that the legoLand in Denmark but still was a well wicked times. I was running round like a little school boy, so much to do so little time, only got there around 2pm and had to do the lot by 5pm, arhhhhhh
So on the Lego train to the bottom of the hill where our first ride awaited us…the Crazy Spider. Looking at it, it doesn’t look like much at all really, just your typical spinning ride and being no ques as it was pissing down rain, why the hell not.
Well it might of being the most innocent ride, but fuck me it was intense. Your basically in one of many spider eggs that spin round on a big platform and your spin your own egg to your desired speed…harmless right? So off we go, spinning nice and gracefully until the ride operator stars announcing that “Number 3 egg is in the lead, ohhhh now it’s number 5”, not even realizing that it was a racing ride I’m not one to back down from a race, so there I am heaving the wheel of our egg sack round and round, asking for some support from Suell, well wasn’t going to happen as she was holding on for dear life and looking like she was about to throw up over me. But ignoring her crys for me to slow down we reached the number one spot…top egg if you will. There we are spinning round at break neck speed, my body getting slammed against the seat as the gravitational pulls took over. Now not having being an astronaut, I would liking it to being in your space capsule whilst re-entering earth atmosphere, why its linked to spiders is rather baffling. Well after a couple of minutes of heaving the wheel and clearly not getting any help Suell I became exhausted and we came third. Took me a while for my eyes to stop wobbling and get my feet together again whilst the kids are buckled in for another go, hardcore little fuckers.

Well LegoLand has it all, water rides, roller coasters, mechanical diggers, rock walls but by far the impressive is the miniature cities made out of Lego. I would have pictures of these marvellous creations but my camera was a little damp after being submerged in the “Team Challenge” water ride where clearly we were too heavy for the ride and ended up slamming into the wall at the end where my bag contents proceeded to empty into the pool. Turns out my phone was sucked into the pump room never to be seen again.

I have to say I was a bit dejected to say the least but life goes on and after the mini doughnuts I was feeling better already.

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