Friday 28th December 2007

We got up nice and early this morning and had some breakfast, before Nikki made us a packed lunch for our dinner. We were going out for the day... to Adventure World! We walked down to the bus stop and the bus arrived pretty quickly, which was good - because it seemed like we'd been faffing about all morning and I didn't think we were ever going to get out.

The bus didn't take long to get to the park and when it did, it dropped us right outside. It was already starting to get quite busy, so we put our bags in one of the lockers and went to go on the rides. Adventure World is half theme park and half water park. We figured we'd do the rides this morning and then, when it was really hot, do the water rides this afternoon.

There weren't that many rides there, and the one's that they did have were ok - but nothing amazing. After lunch we did the water ones and they were much better! We raced on the 6-slide speed racer, which Emma won twice. One thing we did which was hilarious, was the crazy river rapids. We had to climb to the top of some steps and then jump into a rubber ring on what looked like a lazy river... except it was anything but... it was mental! They'd set up loads of rocks and dips so that, in places, the water could get quite rough (it was supposed to be a kids ride!). The best bit was when, at the bottom of one of the hills, Emma fell out of her ring. I rushed down to help her and fell out myself - knocking her ring away... which meant she had to do the rest of the course on her bum. By the time the ride was over, she was red-raw the poor little cow! We had a pretty good time at Adventure World and as we were leaving, me and Nikki bought return passes for $10 - so we can come back once Emma's gone home.

This evening, Nikki did us cheeseburgers and salad for our tea and then when we were sat around chilling out, we decided to play Chocolate Roulette, which was a game Mum and Keith had bought us for Christmas. There were 11 regular praline chocolates and 1 chilli chocolate - all numbered from 1-12. You had to spin the wheel and eat whatever chocolate came up. We made a rule that you HAD to bite of at least half the chocolate, to make it more interesting. Emma went first and it was pretty tense. Pretty soon Emma had had her four chocolates and had not eaten the chilli, so it was down to me and Nikki. I let her spin the wheel and then we bit into our chocolates at the same time...

Uuuuuurrrrrgggghhhh! It was the most disgusting thing I HAD EVER EATEN! I knew straight away that I had the chilli because it crumbled, which none of the previous three chocolates had done. I kept chewing, but after about 3 seconds, my throat caught on fire and my tongue and lips started tingling. There was NO WAY I was going to finish it, so I quickly drank some tea and ate a handful of Cadburys' Chocolate Fingers, but it was no good - nothing would get rid of the awful taste. After about 15 minutes it did start to go and then, for some reason, Emma picked up the chocolate and tried it... we couldn't believe it! It was so funny though, her face immediately filled with regret!

So, there IS a chocolate that I won't ever try again... d'oh!