Beer, xbox and theme parks are a very good mix

My friends and I don’t get to hang out a lot, when were at university were spread across the country (and occasionally other countries) and when were at home, well we live in different towns and only a few of us drive so meeting up tends to be difficult and a bit of a rarity. We decided we were over due a get together so decided to have what we call a “beer and xbox night” (lad’s night in) followed by a trip to Alton towers.

Alton towers is a local (sort of) theme park, if you live in our part of the country then you’ve probably visited at least once, if like us you’ve lived here your entire lives then you’ve probably been more times then you can remember (in fact we’ve reached a point where it’s a yearly event).

I took both my cameras along (D40X and a kodak point and click), unfortunately I forgot to take photos on the beer and xbox night, so you’ll have to make do with photos from the morning after and our trip to Alton Towers.



This is my friend Chris, we first met at sir John Deanes college when we decided it would be a good idea to go rowing, I gave up on rowing fairly quickly but got into kayaking.

Chris is training to be an engineer, he's showing off the computer he built himself.



And this is my good friend Ben, I also met Ben at SJD's college we were put in the same form room and have been friends for about four years. Ben's training to be a dancer and no he's not gay.







This strapping young chap Ben (I collect them), I also met Ben at you guessed it college and I also met Ben rowing. I gave up and he didnt he's still an active rower now.



and this is Andy, Andy and I met in the same way I met Ben (the dancer not rower)we were put in the same form but we also ended up in pretty much every single class together and as a result we usually ended up sitting next to each other. One day Andy declared "wheres my monkey?" I answered "here" and a friendship was born (as well as a nickname).



Alton towers as always was packed but this was well justified. They just put in a new ride, you go on a boat that looks like a pirate ship that has big hand pumped water pistols on it, you try and soak everyone on land (who also try to soak you as well) you end up drenched right through.





Awesome



We got drenched p.s the girl isnt a creeper who decided to sneak into the photo, shes Ben's (rowing) girlfriend.



The happy couple.



Now your probably wondering why I'm 'hanging around' (sorry bad pun) well I get bored very quickly and alot of the queues were just under an hour long, so it felt like an eternity to me.



Best friends forever.




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