steve_rob
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# Day 10 - 12th October (A proper rest day) #
After the long day (and night) before, we over-slept this morning. The plan had been to have a rest day anyway by going to Typhoon Lagoon, but looking at the weather forecast, we though the risk of rain was too high and decided to skip it and just have a lazy day to ourselves. As it turned out, it didn't rain until after 6pm, whereas the day we eventually chose to do TL, it rained on and off all day!
We eventually left the hotel at noon (considering we've always been out by 8am!) and headed for Pirates Cove. Yes, it was time for Round 2 of the Steve Honeyball Golfing Challenge. Maybe we do take this a little too seriously, but both of us did come from very strong, competitive, sporting families and as a child on my family holidays we'd all play the Crazy Golf at whatever seaside resort we were at with the vain hope that we would beat our Dad one year!
Anyway, we tackled the harder Blackbeards course first and this was very close. The lead swung back and forth and as we reached the 18th Erika was one hole up - remember that one more win was all she needed to retain the trophy for another year. But from somewhere, I pulled a magical shot out of the bag (or possibly fluked it), won the hole, tied the course and kept my hopes alive.
On Captain Kidd's course, it was much easier and I came into my own, building up an early lead and never letting it go. This took its time as there was a group of six playing very slowly a few groups in front of us and not letting anyone go ahead of them, and a big queue was building up behind. So after wating ten minutes to play one hole we decided to skip two holes and get ahead of the group with the intention of coming back and playing them after. However, there was no need as I was five holes up by the time we'd reached the 17th and so had now levelled the series at 2 - 2. The tie breaker would be at Fantasia Gardens in a few days - only a win was good enough for me, a draw would mean Erika retaining.
The rest of the day we went our own ways, from the hotel I walked to Universal while Erika drove to Sea World. I basically hit all the big rides in IoA that didn't have huge queues (which given the holiday crowds weren't many) before hopping across to the Studios and riding Men In Black five consecutive times from the single riders line in the vain hope of improving my score. At least I did work out how to use the red button, and now I can consistently score about 280,000 each time. Still nowhere near those guys on the Universal boards who get 999,999 though! Annoyingly, I've STILL never seen the winning ending to MIB - I'm always in a car that has two or three people with really low scores so we end up being "Cosmically Average". I think I'm fated never to get the top rank...
After the long day (and night) before, we over-slept this morning. The plan had been to have a rest day anyway by going to Typhoon Lagoon, but looking at the weather forecast, we though the risk of rain was too high and decided to skip it and just have a lazy day to ourselves. As it turned out, it didn't rain until after 6pm, whereas the day we eventually chose to do TL, it rained on and off all day!
We eventually left the hotel at noon (considering we've always been out by 8am!) and headed for Pirates Cove. Yes, it was time for Round 2 of the Steve Honeyball Golfing Challenge. Maybe we do take this a little too seriously, but both of us did come from very strong, competitive, sporting families and as a child on my family holidays we'd all play the Crazy Golf at whatever seaside resort we were at with the vain hope that we would beat our Dad one year!
Anyway, we tackled the harder Blackbeards course first and this was very close. The lead swung back and forth and as we reached the 18th Erika was one hole up - remember that one more win was all she needed to retain the trophy for another year. But from somewhere, I pulled a magical shot out of the bag (or possibly fluked it), won the hole, tied the course and kept my hopes alive.
On Captain Kidd's course, it was much easier and I came into my own, building up an early lead and never letting it go. This took its time as there was a group of six playing very slowly a few groups in front of us and not letting anyone go ahead of them, and a big queue was building up behind. So after wating ten minutes to play one hole we decided to skip two holes and get ahead of the group with the intention of coming back and playing them after. However, there was no need as I was five holes up by the time we'd reached the 17th and so had now levelled the series at 2 - 2. The tie breaker would be at Fantasia Gardens in a few days - only a win was good enough for me, a draw would mean Erika retaining.
The rest of the day we went our own ways, from the hotel I walked to Universal while Erika drove to Sea World. I basically hit all the big rides in IoA that didn't have huge queues (which given the holiday crowds weren't many) before hopping across to the Studios and riding Men In Black five consecutive times from the single riders line in the vain hope of improving my score. At least I did work out how to use the red button, and now I can consistently score about 280,000 each time. Still nowhere near those guys on the Universal boards who get 999,999 though! Annoyingly, I've STILL never seen the winning ending to MIB - I'm always in a car that has two or three people with really low scores so we end up being "Cosmically Average". I think I'm fated never to get the top rank...
