Catching Up: Saturday 21st July: Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside holiday resort in the northwest of England, the waves of the Irish sea lap its golden sands and wet the rolled up trousers of the descendents of the mill workers, who spun slave cotton into fabric. It wsa very popular in Victorian times and still is, although it is undergoing a makeover.

We were greeted with the Red Arrows of the Royal Air Force.



There are two Piers and the infamous Blackpool Tower, an imitation of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It's a bit like Coney Island.



Here is Xavier on the north pier with Blackpool Tower and gray radioactive Irish sea behind him.



So inspired by aeronautical acrobatics of England's finest fighter pilots Xav decide to take a ride in a flight simulator.



We had fish and chips next, a very traditional seaside lunch. Then it was off to the Pleasure Beach. A huge amusement park with very frightening rides.



Then we went on this.....




Just kidding Grandma. This is the one we went on next, Flying Ships, built in 1904.



Then this the Big Dipper, another old ride but still took my breathe away, as did the toboggan run.



The next day we did something completely different that included mysterious woods, tiny mushrooms, elves, goblins, caves, waterfalls and sheep.......oh and J.R. Tolkien.