Amusement Park

While in England, Xinye and I visited an amusement park, and call me Bob if I can never remember the name of the thing. Something to do with Towers.

Anyway! It was one of the cold days when we went. Xinye wore his coat and I wore my sweater. The regular rides were still a lot of fun. The wind in our faces was not so chilly as to chap our skin or burn our ears. And therefore it was not cold enough, apparently, for Xinye because he decided we needed to ride a water ride. And not at the end of the day either, but the second or third ride had to be a splashy, how wet can we get? ride.

The nearest water ride to us when the decision was rendered, was the really short one with the huge boat that goes up, then comes down and the giant tidal wave soaks everyone in the boat and on the bridge that spans the water channel. We have something like it here called the Tidal Wave, I think.

Anyway, Xinye, because he's a genius, says, "Take off your sweater and leave it so it won't get wet. You'll have something dry to put on at the end." He followed his own advice and deposited his coat in the holding cubbies. And I, being stubborn and ridiculously optimistic, reply, "No, that's ok. We're sitting in front. I'm hoping to slip under the wave and not get too wet." ...Yeah.......

As soon as the boat went splashing into the water at the bottom of the ride, I knew that my hopes of staying semi-dry were doomed. I ducked my head, trying at least to have only my back water-logged at the end.

And that's when my hero came to the rescue. I felt Xinye throw himself over me, taking the brunt of the water onslaught. Ha! How sweet is that?!? I got all mealty, gewey inside.

But only the inside, because on the outside, I was very cold. I'm a bigger person than Xinye, so he could not protect all of me. I had minor stripes of wetness and poor Xinye had very thin strips of dryness. He was positively soaked and shivering. But since I'd been foolish enough not to leave my sweater behind, and I had no protection from the chill, he gallantly gave me his coat, his warm, dry coat, to wear.

Yep. Swooned. Right there in the park. I'd found a gentleman. Poor guy probably would have tried to carry me if I had actually fainted. So happy.

We were fairly cold for a couple hours after that, but the freezing cold air coming at us 60 mph as we made our rounds through the roller coasters helped dry us off a little faster. Plus I had plenty of time to wring out his shirt as we stood in line. We left little puddles at at least 3 rides.

And that was the Towers amusement park in England.

Oops...

Ok! So it has been some time since the last post, but as usual, I have a good excuse. There was a post a couple months ago about a London guy named Xinye that I met on EHarmony. Well, turned out that our conversations went so well that we decided a face-to-face was in order. So, I've been in London England for the last two weeks.

I have to admit that I had a little fear that all the wonderful things that I liked about him would turn out to be things I imagined because I was not close enough to him to see the truth. That turned out not to the the case, however.

While I did not get to spend the entire time with him, we were able to do quite a few things together.

I visited a couple amazing open air markets. While I have been to farmers' markets here, they were a little different in London. For one thing, I noticed that there were military uniforms for sale everywhere! And that's awesome for me because I have a thing for uniforms. There were also a lot more countries represented than just the one we were in at the time. There was a Russian stand that sold fur hats and coats. There were French stands selling art, wine, jewelery, and clothes. There were African stands selling interesting bowls, plates, and other tableware. I'm sure there were many other countries accounted for that I simply did not recognize or pay proper attention to. Oh, and there were some American ones too.

Ooh, I got to see the Lion King musical. That was amazing. They did some incredible things that brought the movie scenes to life.

I also got to go to the Lake District with Xinye. It was beautiful. We took a boat ride and toured one of the lakes and its huge houses. My precious even got me a pair of pretty earrings that go well with a few of my shirts. Awesome!

And, I don't know if I've mentioned it here before, but I've been waiting for years, about 5 years, to go to Magic Mountain. Well, Xinye took me to an amusement park. There were some huge rides that scared the poo out of me, and some fun ones that made me laugh til it was hard to breathe. Was awesome!

We went to a huge museum together. It very nearly rivalled the Smithsonian. Of course, my feet were hurting so bad by this day, that I couldn't walk the whole thing. He was really sweet and let me take plenty of sitting breaks. We made it through the dinosaur exhibit and some of the mammal, and human exhibits.

I have pictures on Facebook of almost everything I'm talking about here. Just look under the England photo album.

There are more stories, and more details later.