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by Frank Blande
This is just a little diary of me and Bex's adventure, we will try to update it as regulary as possible k peep's. Hope you enjoy it!
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Updated 9 Dec 2006

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Knotts Berry Farm, California

Saturday, 19 August 2006

The name of the park sounds nice-Knotts Berry Farm, but they have some crazy rides there!!
The ride in the photo is the silver bullet, and when we came off of it, i nearly fell over as i was so dizzy its crazy!
We were dropped from 252ft which definately scares the crap out of you, and we went from 0-80mph in 2.5 seconds!They have a ride like that at thorpe park which is wicked, but this one has an extra rollercoaster bit on the end, just to scare us even more!We bought a photo which is funny, i look like im about tocry, and frank looks pretty normal!
They had a few water rides, the best of which was perilous plunge, when you are in a boat and you go down a vertical slide thing, we got drenched! Looked like we'd been swimming!
There was a ride called ghost rider which was good, but im not even kidding, i thought it was going to break!
It was a wicked theme park, never been on such crazy and scary rides!
It was only when we got back that Kyrstie told us about all the people that had dies on those rides, so don't think we will be going back there in a hurry!!It was good though!
Yeaterday we went to Kyrstie's Grandparents house as they have a swimming pool and a diving board! It was wicked, but think we need to work on our dives, specially me as i was pants!
We are off to a football (soccer) game this afternoon, so we will see if they are any good o…

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