So you are probably wondering why there wasn't a blog post last night. Well - we were tired XD Yesterday we went to the theme park "Europa Park". It is a huge park with loads of regions based on European countries. Of course there was no way to go on all the attractions in one day, but to be fair most we have grown out of (even though some looked VERY tempting).
But let's rewind to the beginning of the day.
My grandma was so nice to actually write us a schedule of trams and trains we needed to get, so that we would arrived to the long distance bus we needed to take with some time to spare. This would mean that we would have to leave the house at 6.20 in the morning (super early already), but if you know me, you'll guess that I would not go with this plan. I get super panicky about being on time, and as we only had this one chance to take this bus to the theme park, I wanted to leave earlier. However that meant waking up at 6.... even I, who usually wakes up quite early, was not happy when the alarm clock rang. My sleepy head boyfriend (who by the way is asleep as I'm writing this) was not amused indeed. But even in his sleepy and grumpy state he was still excited for all the roller coasters so away we went in the cold and dark eagerly awaiting sunrise.
With the travel plan written out we had no trouble finding the trains we needed to take. And instead of arriving 20 minutes before the needed bus like my grandma planned we arrived 40 mins too early. Well, this gave us time to buy some German pastries for breakfast and eat them before the bus arrived.
Then the most exciting part of the bus ride: the Autobahn. This is a German highway which is famous for not having any speed limits. You should have seen the excitement and sparkle in Geo' s eyes as the cars raced by the window. After the initial excitement we faced the disappointment of dense traffic and also sleepiness. For the rest of the 2 and a half hour bus ride we slept.
And then there it was: the entrance of the park. The day before in preparation for all the rides, I had bought some medical chewing gum containing medicine to prevent motion sickness. Eagerly chewing on my gum, I joined Geo in the line to the park. But then I say line, there was no line! While there were still many people considering that it was a non holiday Tuesday the park visitor numbers we very manageable!!!
Geo and I like roller coasters the most so we right away headed in the direction of the biggest one. On the way there we popped into a ghost house, which started off with a terrifying walking section and a non scary ride section. A little underwhelmed by the second part of the horror house we continued to the Silver Star, this Mercedes-Benz themes roller coaster is the tallest of them all. With a height of 73 metres and a maximum speed of 130 km/h it was truly terrifying. They also had the cool option to line up for the first row of the roller coaster only, and while the wait is longer we still decided to join that line, as sitting at the very front gives you the full experience. Even in the longer line our wait was not quite half an hour, which is nothing for a good ride. Geo had the best seat (and I wouldn't have wanted it, I was scared enough) which was the left edge of th3 front row. This seat seemed to be free floating as the rails ended at my seat. Of course that helped the adrenaline and made the ride even better. It's hard to describe how scary and at the same time amazing the feeling is, but just know that at the first huge drop I held my breath because it was so steep and fast! It was one of the most exciting rides, so Geo and I revisited it at the end of the day for round 2 before we left the park. On the second go we sat in the middle to feel the difference. Of course we were a lot more chill as we already knew what was coming and sitting in the middle and seeing seats in front of you rather than the drop made it less scary too. However, it also added an element of surprise as we couldn't see the drops coming and we're suddenly falling with no preparation.
We went on all the other existent roller coasters in the park which if I am not wrong are an additional 7 of them. The highlights were the Russian Space ship themed one, as it consisted of turning wagons, which meant going half the way backwards and the in the Island section Gazprom one, as it accelerates from 0 to 100 in 2.5 second and has loads of twists and turns (with a loop too).
We also went to a few twisty rides like teacups and Viking to test how good my anti sickness chewing gum was and I must say - it worked surprisingly well!
Another memorable experience was the VR roller coaster. This is basically a rollercoaster ride while wearing the gear over your eyes. While at first being sceptical about the cartoon drawing style of the surroundings the ride turned out to be super fun! As the glasses show you a completely different reality you have a totally different perception of the ride. For example at the beginning it looked like we were going perfectly straight, but when a witch arrived and broke the rails we suddenly started falling, which coincided with the fall of the roller coaster. It was really fun.
We spend most money on food (of course we did XD) eating loads of different foods from all over Europe - Gyros in Greece, Raclette in Switzerland and so on. We also spent some money on an arcade which was super fun and scarily addicting XD
All in all it was a great day. We arrived home at 10 pm and were just too tired for the blog. I hope that now you see why.
-KK
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