chapter 4 : blue fire megacoaster.

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damn, i knew i said i was gonna write sooner, but apparently i was just not in the right mood to jot anything down. everytime i wanna do it, i resorted instead into watching either shaytards/kassem g/raywilliamjohnson on youtube, watch family guy, or play borderlands. well, but actually it doesn’t matter, cos the trip really made such an impression on me that i remember it just as good as i am still on the exact same day, or maybe it is just cos i do not actually know the things that i forgot, which still means i have not forgotten anything.

so the story goes on, we set ourselves to go to a theme park today. i am not really sure if there is actually a theme park in switzerland, but certainly none that is very interesting. so this theme park that we are going to is actually located in germany. we have got to wake up early to catch the shuttle bus which actually leaves at 7 in the morning. i hate waking up in the morning, i will usually be very sour in the day if i must wake up early to travel, and you can’t really sleep again in the car or bus or train or whatever, no matter how hard you try isn’t it. but i was still very happy that day, which says a lot about this theme park.

we arrived at ‘europapark’ at rust, germany at about 9, and we have gotten the tickets from the bus company that we could get in straight away without queuing anymore. and it was crazy, it was 9 in the morning on a weekday, and there were still so many people there, and each of them were just as eager as we were. europaprk is famous for it’s crazy huge roller coasters, and it is amazing since it was and still is a family business. they started really small, and grew in the more than 30 years of its existence until what it is today, and it is really gigantic. they have sections that are named after the countries in europe, and they really do a good job with the themes, they really fit the countries they represent. in every section you can find distinctive foods from the countries they represent as well, and the foods are really cheap if you are used to the swiss prices. cos everywhere in europe is expensive, but switzerland is ridiculously expensive, which is a common thing you hear from fellow travellers. and they also have shows that are really interesting, the one we watched was some kind of horse riding stunts with some kind of spanish royalty background story. the upkeep has really got to be high, hiring those stuntmen to perform everyday and also the horses. all in all, a really great theme park, a must in your itinerary if you are somewhere near south germany.

the day was great, except that i forced cee to ride the viking ride, you know the one like a big swing, and she really got dizzy after that, as we were having lunch, i felt really bad, i am quite often such an ass, people just need to learn not to always give what i want, cos most of the time i don’t really want it, and i won’t be hurt if people say no, i am not that sensitive.

but i really like the viking ride, but i guess only the guys would share my feeling, and of course cee and dee did not undertand. you guys know what i am talking about, yeah, that special tingling sensation you feel around your crotch every time the viking boat swings down, right? it is an amzing sensation right? it is just a shame that the girls do not feel it, they even shy away when i talk about it, it is nothing sexual, it just the male human biology.

to end the post, i just wanna make a list of the best rides there:

• pegasus + poseidon – greece

these are one of the smaller roller coasters, but the area around it is really pretty, it has got a big pool of water that the coaster rush into almost to the end, splashing a huge amount of water that left you wondering, how on earth, you did not get yourself wet.

• atlantica – portugal

this one is rather similar to the previous two, it also wooshes down into a pool of water at the end, but it is really much bigger. and in the middle, it kinda stopped and changed direction, making the coaster ride backwards, which also give a stronger ‘crotch’ sensation as i have explained above.

• fjord rafting – scandinavia

i’ll take this opportunity to give a shoutout to the people in norway that were victims of the bombing and shooting massacre. i express all my condolences. this ride is the one where you sit on a circular rubber boat, looking at each other, while the boat rushes down along with the stream and water splashing out towards you from all directions. it is similar to the jurassic park ride in universal studios singapore and arung jeram in dunia fantasi jakarta. my proven observation: be careful of what you wish for, if you wish not to be wet, you will be, and vice versa. that is why i have never been totally wet on this rides.

• eurosat – france

this is pretty much the first ride we got on in the morning. i think it is really ingenious. it is an indoor dark  roller coaster. the surprise factor of not knowing what is going to happen really brings up the chill factor, although it is actually not a particularly big coaster as i could see from the available space of the surrounding globular structure. really similar to the mummy’s ride at the universal studios singapore, although minus the glowing mummy faces.

• silver star – france

they say it is the biggest and tallest coaster in the whole of europe, and i believe them, it is monstrous. and it is also sponsored by mercedes benz, which made me wonder why it is actually placed in the french section, oh whatever. this ride is really worth the long queue, and is really a no fuss coaster, none of those spiral or going-round section, just plain up and down. but it is no less scary, it is really so high, that you are basically falling for such a long time, more than you would really want and in such a tight angle that the nearest thing would really be free falling from the top of a building. we even did this ride twice. totally crazy.

• blue coaster megacoaster – iceland

it is really difficult to choose the best between this and the previous, but my heart have already spoken. this is a long coaster ride, and this has got all those going-round, sideways, spiral and whatever section your imaginative mind can think of. but that is not really the highlight. you know, the normal coaster always need to climb up the ramp slowly in the beginning, during which you can brace yourself, not with this one. they have a mechanism that shoots the coaster from 0 to 100 km/h in just 2.5 seconds on a flat track. bloody hell, no wonder those guys shout so early while we were queuing, and i was still taken by surprise. and the ride just got better and better from that point on. really hands down, the best coaster i have been on in my whole life.

at the end of the day we even wanted to take a polaroid picture with the blue coaster as the background, but bad luck has it, that we have got everything in the picture except the coaster, cos of bad lighting. damn. but the sweet picture is still hanging on my room’s notice board.

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