BS

"Paradise is not a place, it's a frame of mind"

Mia is really into her Dora the Explorer at the moment, so imagine our (well, her) delight when we saw an advert in the local paper that she was appearing at a nearby amusement park (like Alton Towers but much smaller, and all the rides are for kids, not adults). Quick gasp when I looked at their website to find it was £10.50 each to get in, and no reduction for children.
Cathy suddenly remembered that we had a niece that worked their at weekends, so she rang her and managed to waggle some comp tickets.
Actually, I managed to blag some comp tickets, but I'm trying to build up her involvement.

So we turned up at the theme park, packed lunches made (which turned out to be a master stoke on my part., when you saw the burgers were £4.99 each!!) and after a brief 'discussion' with the man on the gate, he let us in and we began to wander around.

Mia wasn't too impressed with the rides, once she realised it involved sitting down, and still, for several mintues at a time, she was not impressed. Other than this, she was really enjoying her day after meeting Dora and being allowed to run free for an hour or so. Cathy and I had already commented on the run down look of the place, and the distinct need for a lick of paint before we decided to stop for a snack.
As we were sat on a wall watching the log flume, which Mia was enjoying tremendously, a rustling in the bushes caught my atention, and out popped 2, then 3, rats.

Big, wet, furry rats. So we left the area quickly and found another spot cross the other side of the stream. Guess what? More rats. So we headed (away from water) across to the 'parade'. The outfits these people were wearing were so horrible, I actually didn't want Mia going anywhere near them. There was an Elephant who looked like he had mange. His fur was dirty and the outfit didn't fit him/her properly. The music system kept jumping and the dancers did not have a clue what they were doing.
It reminded me of a Simpsons episode where they go to a 'Duff Beer' theme park. It was awful.

Nearly as bad as getting knowcked out of the Blogger tourny with top pair, top kicker on the flop, and being called by someone with nothing, who then hits runner runner str8 flush! Amazing. But then, this is Joker Stars.
This is the 4th str8 flush I've lost to today - 2 when I had the nut flush, and the other when I flopped a str8. All on Joker Stars. I suppose anything can happen on a 'random' system.

Anyway, enough from me, I'll only get bitter.