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I'm back!
To be quite honest, the day was a bit of a disaster and the poker was about the best thing to come out of it.
I played heads up No Limit Holdem on the way and then the same on the way back but we played about half an hour of Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, so that was pretty fun.
Now for the disaster part....
We arrived at Alton Towers to be greeted with light rain. That didn't really bother us and we started going on the rides etc. for about 3 hours or so. Then we stopped at KFC for lunch.
THEN it started to tip it down with rain, so we pretty much could not go on any outside rides.
Then the lightning storm started, so all rides were closed. Now it was about 3pm so we decided to call it a day. We took shelter in a toilet while the storm passed right over our heads then we legged it over to the car.
As anyone who's been to Alton Towers knows, the theme park is situated in a tiny little village, called Alton. Now since it had been tipping it down with rain for an hour or so this tiny village had what we in Britain call flash floods. The roads turned into rivers that were about a foot deep. After making an attempt to drive upstream through one of these 'rivers' the engine promptly conked out. We were stranded for a good 5 hours before the AA sorted our car out and the floods had been cleared as best as possible. Then we went home, sopping wet, but happily playing poker!
Oh and not to mention we got held up for another two hours after that because there was a fatal crash on the M1 and it was closed!
Bad day, good poker!
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