The other day, I realised I had a day booked off in order to recover from playing a football match. At my age, you need to prepare for these sorts of things. I also realised that if I didn’t plan anything for the day, I would end up sitting around in my Batman onesie watching TV all day long. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but if I’ve got a day off that I’m getting paid for, it’s always fun to get paid for doing something cool.
So I text Jason to find out if he was off which he was, and so was Josh. So we ended up having a manly day out at the manliest place that I could think of.
I’ve wanted to go to Diggerland for quite some time. I was going to go with a friend a couple of years ago when I had a week off only to discover that it was only open on weekends and during school holidays. Which is a bit annoying, because to have it kid free would be amazing, although there weren’t many queues when we went. I’ll admit now, that I had very little idea what Diggerland would actually be like. All I knew is that they let you ride diggers and that was pretty much the selling point for me.
Oh my god, it’s the stuff of dreams!
I have never felt manlier than when in control of a massive piece of machinery and able to destroy things. It’s a pretty good feeling, really. I accidentally broke the rules. Apparently you’re not allowed to lift the bucket over head height. I may well have been told this but when in control of heavy machinery, pretty much everything I’ve ever been told is forgotten in my excitement. I could probably spend all day filling up the bucket on the digger with dirt and lifting it as high as it can go to just drop out all the dirt.
There are more things than just that though. You also get to drive tractors, robots, knock down skittles and go fishing for ducks! This really was my sort of theme park as the scariest ride we went on was getting slowly lifted 50 feet in the air. Admittedly this was because we wussed out of the Spindizzy but really, it did look quite scary.
Anyway, Diggerland gets 2 thumbs up from us.