I'm off!

[lazy_hoor]

On another wee holiday!  To the most glamorous of resorts - Birmingham!  Wooo!  Well, more Sutton Coldfield, which is the posh part of Birmingham.  They're so posh they claim they're not even in Birmingham!  So posh, Aston Villa players live there in mock-tudor mansions.  Um.

We're staying here, and on Monday (our first wedding anniversary - aaaahhhh) we're going here to go on 'Britain's Scariest Ride'!  I haven't been to a theme park since my early twenties, I hope I haven't turned into a complete wuss since then.  When I was very young my favourite Drayton Manor ride was the Jungle Cruise which was kind of like a trip up the Amazon (if the Amazon ran through Tamworth).  I would be very surprised if it's still there though - it was really quite racist!  There were animatronic black people with bones in their noses putting a vicar in a cooking pot.  Bizzare.  Oh apparently it's been replaced by a medieval ride (launched by Atomic Kitten, for some reason, wouldn't Robert Bartlett have been a better choice?).

Saturday is my cousin's wedding and the reception is in Drayton Manor too, but in a function room, not on the rides (sadly).  I hope the weather improves for it.

I've noticed that another messageboard that  leedy  unavand myself are members of (the one that spawned our knitting club) are having a seven-a-side football tournament.  Are any of yis signing up?!  We could knit our strips!

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[biascut.livejournal.com]

Oh, racist theme parks of our youth! When I was 21, me and my best friend and my American girlfriend went to the American Adventure, which was hugely popular when I was a kid, and the H1 and I had raved to my girlfriend about how great and cheesy it was. We got there, and it was all these plastic caricatures of stereotyped Native Americans with signs like "Big chief say, little injun must take off shoe!" SO EMBARRASSED.

[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

I may remember that particular not-very-pc ride...