Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
Dec. 18th, 2023 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaSo, that final bit of Christmas adventure blogging...
There were queues. Annoying queues. Actually only two annoying queues but the first was at the entrance. There was airport style security and we chose the queue with the slow guy. We also chose the queue that kept getting stopped to let fast track people in. Still, we eventually madeit in and looked around. Went to a market where there was jam and pickles available. Very tasty jam and pickles. And they were kind enough to look after them for us.
Next stop - I actually can't remember the order. I think we went for the haunted mansion, becauseflickums loves haunted mansions. This is where the other queue annoyance happened. Someone decided to just stand in the queueing arae not moving forward. I have no idea why! But eventually the ticket seller left his booth and ushered her along, opening the barrier so she didn't have to go all the way round - but she ignored this.
Still, the ride was quite good fun.
Next stop was the airgun range. I have a pretty good aim. Missed with a couple though. Still, it was enough to win a prize, and we won a reindeer. Needed to choose a name.
The other highlight was the Ice Slide. Something that Flick was not keen on but felt I should give a go. And why not? Who doesn't love hurtling down an ice slide in an inflatable ring? This was another queue, but it actually moved pretty fast. The ride was well organised and they even had some people in the queue chatting to us which is nice. A scottish lady hellped us choose the name for the reindeer and we settled on Slider!
Had two rides. Flick managed to miss the first one for some reason. All seemed to be based on the honour system because nobody seemed to check if you actually actually had only been down once. I think it might even have been possible to sneak on by pretending to be a spectator. But anyway, it was good fund zipping down the slide.
That was really all we had time and money for - the place was hella pricey - but we had a wander through the Bavarian village, but then decided to leave because we wanted to see people for board games.
And so that concludes the winter adventure!
There were queues. Annoying queues. Actually only two annoying queues but the first was at the entrance. There was airport style security and we chose the queue with the slow guy. We also chose the queue that kept getting stopped to let fast track people in. Still, we eventually madeit in and looked around. Went to a market where there was jam and pickles available. Very tasty jam and pickles. And they were kind enough to look after them for us.
Next stop - I actually can't remember the order. I think we went for the haunted mansion, because
flickums loves haunted mansions. This is where the other queue annoyance happened. Someone decided to just stand in the queueing arae not moving forward. I have no idea why! But eventually the ticket seller left his booth and ushered her along, opening the barrier so she didn't have to go all the way round - but she ignored this.Still, the ride was quite good fun.
Next stop was the airgun range. I have a pretty good aim. Missed with a couple though. Still, it was enough to win a prize, and we won a reindeer. Needed to choose a name.
The other highlight was the Ice Slide. Something that Flick was not keen on but felt I should give a go. And why not? Who doesn't love hurtling down an ice slide in an inflatable ring? This was another queue, but it actually moved pretty fast. The ride was well organised and they even had some people in the queue chatting to us which is nice. A scottish lady hellped us choose the name for the reindeer and we settled on Slider!
Had two rides. Flick managed to miss the first one for some reason. All seemed to be based on the honour system because nobody seemed to check if you actually actually had only been down once. I think it might even have been possible to sneak on by pretending to be a spectator. But anyway, it was good fund zipping down the slide.
That was really all we had time and money for - the place was hella pricey - but we had a wander through the Bavarian village, but then decided to leave because we wanted to see people for board games.
And so that concludes the winter adventure!
