Stacker, a pretty cool arcade game where you can win really cool prizes! The aim of the game is to stack the lights on top of each other to get to the top. You start off with 3 blocks of light that move across the screen until you hit the button for them to stop. The lights go from 3, then 2 then 1 and they move across the screen faster the higher the tower of lights you make. There’s a break point half way up where you can choose to win one of the smaller prizes which are always things like keyrings. You don’t have to pick the minor prize, you can continue and try and get all the way to the top to win one of the major prizes. I’ve played on stacker many times before and have always managed to get right to the top but could never quite get that final square of light on top of the rest, that was until Saturday. Myself and Matt had decided that we wanted to go bowling. We got to the bowling alley and were told that there were no lanes free until 10:30 - 4.5 hours later!! We had planned to go to Bingo at 7 - yes I know, Bingo, for old people (or so someone I know tells me ) - so we had a bit of time to spare. The bowling place has a pretty cool arcade joined on to it, so we decided to play around a bit in there.

They had stacker which Matt decided to play on, he didn’t do that well so asked if I wanted a go. I didn’t want to at first, but then changed my mind. I got to where I normally do, right at the top with the light going back and forth really fast, then I hit the button, expecting the light to miss the tower, but it stuck! I’d actually done it! I’d won! I was asked to pick one of the 4 prizes they had available. It started to try and give me a PS2 that was one of the prizes but it got stuck and it wouldn’t give me it. Matt had to go and get someone to sort it out for us and give us our prize. While we waited the machine told us to pick another prize, so we picked the one we wanted in the first place A HP camera and printer! The manager came over and checked to make sure I really had won. So to prove to everyone, here’s a pic of how I won!

And here’s what I won!

Not bad for 50p eh?! I’ve looked it up and it’s worth about £70 so thinking I might try and sell it on ebay! Could do with some extra cash!

On Saturday, I was taken to Glastonbury to see the Illuminated Carnival. Matt had been several years before, and thought it would be something that I would enjoy. I was really quire excited about it! We arrived there 2 hours before it started so we were able to park and get a good spot to see the Carnival. Good thing we did too, as it took us a while to find somewhere to park without having to pay! We found a good spot to stand where we would get a good view of the parade. We stood and waited for ages but it was worth it!

Here’s a little bit from the website to show what the Illuminated Carnival is about!

The Somerset Carnivals are highly regarded as the largest illuminated procession in the world. They occur late on in the year at various locations including: Bridgwater, Burnham-on-Sea, Chard, Ilminster, Glastonbury, North Petherton, Shepton Mallet, Taunton, Wellington, Wells, Weston-Super-Mare, and Yeovil.

The carnivals in Somerset date back to 400 years, and are one of the most spectacular events in Somerset today. In some of the bigger locations (such as Bridgwater), you can expect to see crowds of up to 150,000.

The carnival floats (or carts as they are sometimes referred as), are designed and built by dedicated carnival clubs around the West Country. These carnival clubs have many members who raise money throughout the year, and work relentlessly to achieve the spectacular carnival entries. The carnival floats take part in the carnival parade along with other entries; these range from clowns dancing in the streets to 100ft illuminated carnival floats (some with up to 30,000 light bulbs) pulled by tractors.

There are many prizes to be won at the carnival processions, and judges along the route rate the floats in various categories.

The floats we saw were really amazing! You could tell a lot of work had gone into designing and doing up the floats! The best ones where the ones that had loads of moving parts on them, dancers on them dancing in time to the music! It was an amazing sight! They had different kinds of floats throughout the procession, some pretty large ones with, like the ones I just mentioned, some smaller ones, some where all the people on the float had to be still for the entire time - which must have been really hard and loads of dancers in between!

I took loads of pics that night, had to keep snapping away as people kept getting in my way Took over 200 pics but have managed to get them down to 17 to post on here! :p Here are some of the best ones!

                                               

I so can’t wait for next years one! :D Planning on going already!

Blimey! Please forgive me, for I have sinned! It’s been 41 days since my last blog! Seriously, what happened to me keeping this thing updated?! Rubbish! Better get stuck back in!

Last night, my dear friend Becky decided to come round and keep me company in my free lonely house. We were both feeling down in the dumps, neither of us sure why, so we decided we needed some cheering up. This involved our usual randomness, loads of chocolate and a Disney DVD. I have no food in the house, so we drove to Asda. Straight to the fat gaining isles we went, but were unable to decide what we wanted that would satisfy our needs. We had spied some yummy looking yoghurty, moussey, sunday things but they were a little on the small side and very possibly wouldn’t satisfy us! Becky then came up with an idea to make our own mousse. We grabbed 4 pots of Aero mousse and then went in search for stuff to put in it. We arrived at the Bakery part of the store and found brownie pieces to add. This wasn’t enough, we needed more chocolate. I found 2, rather large triple chocolate muffins we could break up and add to the mousse. We could have continued searching, but thought we’d end up getting sick.

We headed back to mine where we unloaded our shopping and began to create our mousse. We made a mess!! We started with some of the brownie pieces and then the aero mousse and finally the broken up muffin on top. There was still a bit of muffin left and some brownie pieces left as our bowls wouldn’t take any more!

So here’s our very chocolatey creation So wrong, yet so right!

We were meant to devour it during the film, but that didn’t happen. I mean, come on, it’s chocolate!! Instead we had gobbled it up while the ads were on! oops!