Where's Wooley 4 - Scaring myself stupid?

Another part of our summer holiday was a meet up with family members and a trip to Drayton Manor!

I'm not normally one for theme parks, having only been to a few in my lifetime and certainly never attempted a glut of the thrill rides but this time we went all out...

First up, we experienced the G-Forces of... GFrorce!



To be honest, after the first, slow, hang you upside down making you feel like you're going to fall to your death loop, I kinda lost it for a while and it was only after getting off and looking back over the ride that I realised there had been two further loops amongst the twisting and turning chaos! I was a little stunned but having completed this mini adventure, felt I could cope with more...



Maelstrom was superb! Dangling off a spinning wheel that then swings to ridiculous heights before swooping you back down and up again... Multiple passes of this monster made me feel like I was flying and I absolutely loved it! Two Big Thumbs Up!



Of course, having braved the others, I figured that Shockwave would be just as easy! I was wrong! This coaster has you in a standing position rather than seated in any way and takes you high - very high, before plumetting you way to fast into a series of twists, turns, loops and general scare the crap out of you moments! And to cap it off, you get to stop dead at the end rather than coasting to a halt! I did not like this! It just felt too insecure throughout and I must admit, I closed my eyes for a fair bit of it (whilst screaming!)

How to calm down? With a cold shower perhaps?



Stormforce is wet - very wet! We had a rather large girl sitting to one side of our 'lifeboat' which I reckon tipped the balanace meaning that our in theory drier spot second from back of the boat didn't afford us any protection! But then, having been dropped forwards into the water, this ride also drops you backwards into it too, meaning you haven't a hope in hell of staying dry whatever your seating arrangement! great fun but daft of us to ride this just before leaving - meaning a damp drive home! Doh!

We did go on some calmer rides too... The youngsters of our family group (niece and Nephew, 9 & 5yrs wanted to join in and with the newly constructed 'Thomas Land' there were plenty of themed rides to enjoy... I went on a rather overly girating boat thing with my niece that swung and span you till you were ready to throw up and we enjoyed the pirate adventure boat ride (in a gloomy undercover setting, based on Pirates of the Carribean we think and a ride past dragons that had our Nephew worried about dying before his 6th birthday - though I convinced him the ducks on the lake would keep the dragons at bay... Long story but I had to think on my feet to avoid the terror in his eyes!



A good fun day out and being as it was all on the Tesco vouchers, we can afford to go again and experience the rides we didn't quite make it to this time soemtime in the future... Joy? Jxx