Forgetting to celebrate Daniel's Birthday, who was having a party at The Hayling View, as we had a poor experience visiting Six Flags Magic Mountain. Their ‘Funnel Cake’ was only for real fatties!
The day was a mixture of sunny intervals and cloudy periods with the cool mountain air and we were glad to have our British-style coats and jumpers
Awake at 4.00am which was a little later and the "lay in" was due to Diana being a little more reluctant than the rest of us. We got ready and went out to our favourite Coco's only to find them not open until 7.00am at the weekend but we drove over to another 24-hour branch and had a nice meal there. We then set off on the drive across to that part of Southern California north of Los Angeles where we queued up to enter "Six Flags Magic Mountain". I did not think much of the queues and noise of this place. They also had no effective park map at first and few shops or other means of catering for people waiting up to two hours for some of the rides and even the ladies toilets had a fifteen-minute wait.
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Annoying also that they treat girls of 8 and 13 as adults for charging purposes which is a rip-off. We still had a good day but feel that Knotts followed by Disneyland are much more enjoyable and better value. Six Flags was invented by a Texas businessman who had visited Disneyland and built a number of fast-ride theme parks around the United States, with the idea of it being cheap and geographically convenient. The park at Magic Mountain came later. They were first to introduce unlimited rides and so I suppose they invented the theme park queue along with it!
I preferred Disneyland when you had so many tickets of different grades, did not have to queue so much and chose the rides more carefully. For lunch we had a "funnel cake" each. For this a doughnut-type mixture was drained through a funnel into a deep frying pan so that a mass of worm-like cooked doughnut is created, removed and sprinkled with sugar and, if desired, lots of jam. We were to learn that a complete cake is too much for anyone except the archetypal American "fatties" that you see everywhere as the locals have a real diet problem. We ended our day on the "white-water"-type of circular craft and, as luck would have it, we avoided the worst of the water splashes; some other girls next to us getting drenched and their "pants wet".
The day was a mixture of sunny intervals and cloudy periods with the cool mountain air and we were glad to have our British-style coats and jumpers. The journey home went well and we stopped off at a McDonalds "drive-thru" on the way home in Anaheim to collect some food for taking back and eating at the hotel. In bed before 7.30pm. It was actually Daniel's 21st birthday today but we lost track of the time and dates and only realised it too late to call him. However, we had celebrated a birthday tea before we went and this night he was having a party at The Hayling View with a lot of friends from Paxton and Norfolk.