Alton Towers - Ultimate Event

Saturday 11th May saw over 7000 young people descend on the Alton Towers theme park for a day of fun and an evening of Christians bands and entertainment. The Ultimate Event was organised by Youth Alive in conjunction with Alton Towers, Alliance Music and many others. Many travelled up for the day from Cornwall. We asked Josiah of a youth group near Looe for his impressions of the day:

"The yearly Youth Alive event is held at Alton Towers and this year I went. It cost £35 for travel in a comfortable coach, full access to the park for the day and entry to "The Event" in the evening featuring well known bands such as The Tribe and a good speaker. It was definitely the best day I've had in a year or so and the money is easily worth it.

This year there was the new ride "AIR", it was so incredible, it's so smooth and you really feel like you're flying!! Nemesis was breathtaking and the adrenaline rush was like nothing else!! And then of course there was the famous Oblivion - need I say more?! Well I will! Oblivion was the experience of a lifetime; I've never been so scared in my life! The queue was about an hour long but I would have waited all day for the one ride alone! Don't tell yourself that it's not your thing, you've never done anything like it before or that you'd be too scared. It's not really my thing, I'd never done anything like it before, and I was scared TO DEATH!

I got into Nemesis, strapped myself in and immediately wished I had never come, but within a few seconds I was doin' loop-de-loops at sixty mph and had forgotten all my worries! So start saving now if you have to, talk to your youth leader about it, and be there next year!!!!!!!!!

BO alias Josiah

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