Thorpe Park

Rake and I went to Thorpe Park yesterday. We've been there billions of times, it's one of our many traditions. We've been there together or with numerous friends who we've now lost or with friends who we still have and will invite next time. Each time it's great and there's always something to remember, but this time the things to remember weren't as great as previous ones.
Yesterday our favourite rides were broken, breaking or being worked on. We checked the website before we went and it said 2 of them were down, but it didn't say why. When we got there it was obvious why, there was machinery and workmen all over them. Rides at Thorpe Park and probably every theme park are always stopping and starting, so we thought perhaps they were just broken that day and would be fixed soon, but no. I really think the website should tell people why or at least when they're expected to be working again.
Another of the best rides broke down when we were in the queue for it. We then continued to wait for over an hour for it to come back up but it never did. In the end they gave everyone fast track tickets so we could go on 3 other rides and not have to queue. I wish they'd done that sooner though, I got sun-burnt in that queue :P.
We were on another ride before that and it broke when we were nearly at the top of it. We were then stuck in the boat thing of a 20ft high log flume. 2 women ran up the steps next to the track and talked to everyone straight away though, which did help as there is a time when you start to think '...shit!'. They got a worse deal of it than we did, I really don't envy anyone having to climb up those see-through flimsy metal stairs.
I also went on X:/ No Way Out for the first time and it has been there for well over 10 years. It's built inside this stupid metal pyramid and it's entirely in the dark and it's supposed to be just a backwards roller coaster. The only reason I've not gone on it is due to me being afraid of the dark. I know it's dumb, but especially with attractions and crap, when there's dark there are things that jump out at you and I HATE that. Rake had to lead me round the dark empty queue line corridors with me holding onto her arm and with me jumping at a mirror and some stupid model in a case.
The actual ride was unbelievably shit though. It just takes you backwards, jolts to a stop a few times and has some really stupid recording of some robot person saying bullshit like 'cannot compute, failure to break' etc. I think there were some lame light effects too, but my hands were over my face for most of it.
Other than that though, it was a good day. Rake and I enjoyed spoiling people's photos by both completely hiding in our hoodies during the photo parts of rides. The best one was when we got put with a couple on a log flume and their picture was a typical coupley ride photo and there's just 2 purple things behind them, like 2 ribena berries that invaded their ride. They found it funny too though, so that's OK :P.
An odd thing I noticed about yesterday was the amount of odd shaped girls, girls which weren't so fat, apart from a HUGE round belly, but it wobbled and folded, so they weren't pregnant. It was like every girl around had developed a beer gut. Or there were tons of emo girls who had giant muffin tops going on. I'm larger myself, so I'm not saying I was grossed out, I was just shocked at how many there were, especially of the large round belly kind. I wondered how the ride staff would handle that too, as you can't ride if you're pregnant and these girls really looked pregnant. I still don't get how there were so many of them, it was honestly harder to find a girl who wasn't like that.