Gringo Tour 08/09 - Part 24

I did one last solo ride - the Vudú - which was sort of like the old HMS Endeavour (at Wonderland... again!) mixed with a graviton on speed. You are harnessed in (like an upside down rollercoaster) - but you are swung from left to right (almost horizontally) and around in the circle at the same time. Sort of like a washing machine for your stomach and lower intestines... Neeccye.

Ant was being a real trooper - hanging in for me - and waiting patiently after each ride. It was very much appreciated and had felt like I had my own personal cheersquad at each of the rides... So I felt like doing something together - the ye old cars (a bit like the Antique Autos (at Wonderland!)... where you drive an old antique car around a fixed track. Since I did the driving at Autopia at Disneyland - I decided to let Ant do the driving today and for myself to take the backseat. We were attempting (in vain) to ram our car into the car in front of us (who were driving like "Driving Miss Daisy" on a downer) - but there was some weird strange magnetic force field which prevented us from doing so...

After that - we caught the ending of the most strangest show we had seen for a while - "Show de los Looney Tunes - Feliz Navidad style". It was a bunch of people dressed up as princesses and elves (the elves probably wished they were princesses). They were singing along to those Xmas classics including Wham!'s "Last Christmas" (not really sure if that is a real xmas song - Last Christmas I gave you my heart.. The very next day, you gave it away... etc). Most of the elves spent most of the show dancing like fairies and molesting toy soldiers (who all seemed to enjoy it). Twas the gayest land in the world.

We rushed over to the other side of the park - where we watched the "Presentaciones educativas del Mundo Marino" (aka the dolphin/seal show). When we arrived into our VIP seats - it felt like a nightclub with pounding techno music, people waving glo-sticks and a guy in a wetsuit/tutu dancing around (as you do). He was getting the crowd geared up by chucking a beach ball into the crowd and letting them bounce around. Whenever someone chucked the ball into the pool - the music was switched off and he gave them the evil mexican look. Alas - there was no mexican waves at the show... The show itself didn't really appear to be very "educational" - it was more like the seal/dolphin people making arses of themselves and riding the dolphins like they were surfboards... Another wikipedia fact - this themepark was where they had shot "Free Willy" (not a porno) - and the Orco who was in the film used to live here until animal rights activists protested against the treatment of Keiko - who was then probably smuggled out of the park by Moe from the Simpsons or something...

We then did the lamest of lame rides - Le Grand Carrousell - which was a double decker merry-go-round. We each got our own rocking horses - then I did the whole "ride-the-mechanical-bull-like-a-slut" look for the entire ride - with Ant taking pictures. Ant said I was getting some disturbed looks by people waiting in the queue with their tots...

We ignored the constants announcements for the 8:30 Magic Light Parade (hello - Disney copyright infringement!) and did one last ride on the Superman rollercoaster. As it was getting late and cold and dark - this ride was completely fantastic at night. It was sort of like a "Space Mountain" ride on speed - as you were plummeting through darkness at breakneck speeds. Ant liked it better in the dark because he didn't know how far we were off the ground (fear of heights thing). This ride was definitely my favourite (up there with the Tsunami ride). This themepark was a first for me in the way that almost 90% of the rides made you exit them through a gift shop or restaurant. The Batman and Superman rides obviously led you through to a Batman/Superman themed shop. The Boomerang led you through to the Dominio's we had lunch at (?!!!). Even the crappy Ferris Wheel had its own shop for christ sakes...!

We felt like it was time to head back into town (as the trip out here took a while - because the metro seemed to be having problems today). We had a look through the gift shop on the way out and there were tonnes of Speedy Gonzales toys. We would of got one - if it didn't look like a giant evil rat. There was some "Day-Glo" 6 Flags Mexico t-shirts in the style of those Supre "Choose Life" tees - note to 6 Flags - the whole fluoro thing died after Parklife in 07. Getz with the program! Ant was after something (other than a fluoro tee) that was 6 Flags Mexico specific (just to say that you have been) - but everything was more geared towards the cartoon characters than anything else...

We got on a more expensive 10 peso bus back to the Uni Station. We had flashbacks to Vegas - waiting for more customers to arrive in order for the bus to leave - but they were filling this bus to capacity, and then some. I was getting a feeling that the bus driver was thinking about getting people to catch it on the top of the bus - India style. Probably not a safe thing given the quality of the mexican driving here... Ant was sort of under the impression that this was an "express" bus back to the metro station - because it was newer (no bullet holes) and was more expensive. However - that theory went out the window when the bus driver would pull up at random places - pick more people up and be completely in excess of the maximum passenger number by 50%.

Our metro ride back was pretty slow - and was a bit of a sad way for our last ride on the system - given that it has been really good to us over the last week. The train kept inexplicably stopping in random places for inordinate amounts of time. We were just about to give up on the train (when we were a couple of stations away from Insurgente) when it finally took off.

For dinner - we did the whole street taco thing where I had gone for a greasy snack at our 5am session at the Papi Fun Bar a few nights before. The guy who worked there recognised me (just like "Cheers") and was happy I was back. We had a couple of tacos (un-fried tortillas - with delicious marinated chicken, onion and a little bit of pineapple!) and a Corona each. We were naughty afterwards and bought a 4 pack of Sol beer at a nearby 7-11 clone (OXO) and watched a bit of South Park DVD back at the hotel room... Until next time...