We had a great time too!
We arrived about 2.30ish and checked in at the hotel - we were staying at The Imperial. We caught a tram down to the Pleasure Beach and collected our tickets which we'd booked in advance. Then we went and discovered that all the rides had the most horrendous queues - why were there so many people there on a regular Saturday in September?
We looked at the queue for Infusion but decided to go on the Big Dipper and then Revolution. It had got to a bit later in the day and I pointed out that we'd walked about three miles just going backwards and forwards to see if the queue for Infusion had died down and so we might as well just wait for it. So we got in the queue, it took an hour to get to the front and it was over with very quickly but it's a good ride. I wouldn't wait that long again though. After that we went on the Big One (twice), Avalanche, Grand National, Bling, Space Invader (one of my personal favourites) and anything else in between. We didn't leave the Pleasure Beach until about 10 o'clock and we DID have fish and chips on the front.
We caught a tram back to the hotel but there were a few drunken lads on it who were fffing a bit (wasn't too bad for us but a couple with kids got on and it was a bit uncomfortable then).
The hotel was really hot but we were exhausted so flaked out.
Had a very nice breakfast in the hotel apart from an older couple who were incredibly rude to the waitresses all because they couldn't be bothered to wait a few minutes for their coffee despite all the waiters and waitresses being run off their feet. They were a really posh couple who obviously thought that waiting was beneath them - it was almost as bad as the yobs on the tram!
Anyway, went home via St Annes and all in all had a lovely weekend.
Glad you had a good time too Slinky - I was looking out for you but we were probably in different queues at different times!
