finally back at home after alton towers theme park yesterday... i stayed at my friend ellen's house from thursday to friday because we had to be at the meeting point for the coach ride to alton towers very early, and her host dad could bring us. so we got up at 4:45 am yesterday. at about six we left with the coach, and the journey to alton towers took us six hours, with a short stop to buy snacks and go to the loo. arrived in the alton towers theme park (which is something like europapark), we could go off by ourselves. the park has got several really cool rides and roller coasters, but not the best opportunities to eat something (i had the worst burger of my life - well, a bite - but i complained and got the money back, all of it, even though i ate all the chips), and i expected it to be bigger (we could walk from one end to the other in 15 minutes), but in the end, we had a good time. we had to be back in the coach ready to leave at sic o'clock, some people were too late of course, so we left at 6:30. we noticed, that it was really cold in the bus, but we didn't really think about it, until we stopped for the first time at a petrol station. the bus driver told us, that there was something wrong with a water tank and because of that the heating didn't work,but he filled the water tank again and the heating worked. at ten o'clock we stopped again, but then the driver told us, that not only the water tank broke down, but something important, so that the bus could not get started anymore. they'd call somebody to fix it, they told us, and we went into the service station. two hours later, this somebody came. we had a more or less good time, enjoying free sorry-drinks in the service station. so we finally left with our fixed bus at 12 o'clock, and were back at two o'clock. ellen's very kind host dad picked ellen, svenja (another friend) and me up, and we finally went to sleep at 2:30. today we got up at twelve :D and now i am back at home!