Thomas's Favourite Stories
*This video has nothing to do with what I am about to say.
Elephants are awesome creatures.
Except when they charge at you...
On our 4th day in Botswana we were driving back to the camp and there were these elephants with a few kids, 20m off the road and the Mom of the group didn't seem happy with us. Probably because we were kind of heading in there direction like 45degrees off but not exactly at them. So she blew here trunk at us and started charging us. Luckily our driver hit the pedal after he started going full speed and the rest of the group started charging after us, we managed to get past with only a few meters on clearance between us and the closest one. After that you can see why I'd be wary of having all those elephants go around us like in the video above. I was wary of being around elephants for the rest of our safari except near the end when this video was taken I started to fear them less.
Our trek in Nepal was a good and bad thing.
The bad things were 6 hour+ days while waking up at 6am, also Dad and I got slight altitude sickness (just a headache). But it was such a cool experience while at the height of our trek 4130M taller than 75% country's highest point. Even while being so high up the mountains still being thousands of meters higher than us was so awesome there was also this couple hundred meter drop right beside our teahouse so with an ice river flowing under under that if you wait a minute you can hear a cracking sound of the ice flowing. Even though the mountain in photo 2 and 3 was the tallest it didn't look the coolest to me, the mountain in photo 1 looked better because it was closer to us and it was such a shear drop. The mountain in photo 1 was 1000M shorter than the other one.
Annapurna base camp the marked one is where we stayed, but our trek up to it came from Macchapuchhare base camp, and the photo of the mountain in pic one was taken halfway between them. Pic 1 mountain is named Macchapuchhare (bottom left) and pic 2/3 is called Annapurna 1(top left) which is 1/14 8000+ meter mountain. We also saw one other called Dhaulagiri which is slighlty taller than Annapurna.
Right after our trek in Nepal was done we deciding to have a little thrill on the tallest swing in the world at 228M. We had a free fall for 6 seconds and because it's a swing we had a gentle stop of the free falling not like a bungy jump. To start we had the person running it started by saying a few questions (we chose this over knowing when he'll drop us) to us then randomly he would drop us, When he dropped us the last question he asked was what is your name so Dad's name is AAAAAAH. It was posted on tiktok and we got like 5000+ likes.
My favourite roller coaster, so far Voltron.
It was super thrilling in the Croatian themed area at Europa park in Rust Germany.
Unfortunately it had the longest line of all the coasters at the park with an average of 50 minutes.
The reason it's in the Croatia area is because it's based on Nikola Tesla and electricity (if you didn't know Nikola Tesla is croatian). It is intense but not too intense where it is still fun. There's nothing about this coaster that it is the fastest, tallest, or just anything except it is the world record for the steepest launch angle of 105 degrees world record. With 4 different launches one being backwards it is super fun and 7 inversions, and a length of 1385 meters pretty long for a roller coaster. Also with super thrilling speeds of 100km/h which produces 4G's of force. From the intensity to the 7 inversions and high speeds I just love it so much.
I have had many interesting gaming setups...
But it is definitely all worth it to get those dubs (wins). From being on the floor to playing in a pc part shop here are some of the most interesting ways I have gamed. Pic 1 While we were in Turkey there wasn't any surfaces i could play in our Goreme accommodation so i sat on the ground in the bathroom. Even though we were in a cave hotel it was the lowest ms of ping (time it takes to connect to the server) we had in Turkey. Pic 2 we were in this pc part shop in Osaka and there was these demo setups with fortnite open on them. I was disappointed that the same store in Tokyo didn't have it. Pic 3 while in a hotel there was going to be a fortnite live event at 1AM and my friends were going to be on so I had to sit on the ground in the bathroom so I wouldn't wake my parents up. Also at 3AM once in Nepal I woke up for a live event.
The colosseum was one of my favourite places to visit I took almost 50 photos there so these ones are all mine (my personal most for any one single area). It was in such bad condition compared to what it would have looked like in 80 C. E. it did suffer from 2 major fires and 5 major earthquakes both the fires were cause by lightning, the dates were 217 AD and 250AD and the earthquakes happened, 443, 484 or 508 researchers haven't figured out exactly when, 847, 1231, and 1349. So because of those you can see how poor condition it is in.
Abu Simbel was my favourite temple this trip with the intricate cuttings on the outside to the hieroglyphics on the inside this is why it's my favourite temple. To start the super large statues out front look cool and well designed especially for being 20m tall. Something crazy is it was actually moved because of the nile water levels increasing. So the entire hill is artificial and if you look at the rocks you can see stuff that doesn't seem normal but otherwise they did a really good job at restoring it. Don't forget this temple is almost 3500 years old and there is still colour inside which is quite vibrant in some places.
A German U-boat...
Dad and I played this game together called U-boat where you control a German U-boat in WW2 and because of that we wanted to visit one. In a smaller port town in Kiel (which is also one of the ports in our game) there is one of 2 U-boats left in the world there and the other one is somewhere in the U.S., and there's so much intricate stuff in there like seeing the engine and all these random pipes around it, I would definitely never want to be on one of these in the ocean it's so cramped and it seems like it's not easy to operate one of these. It's too bad you can't go on the deck and look at the anti aircraft guns in the top right of the pic, you can only go inside it.
Super Nintendo World
This is easily the best themed area in any theme park I've been to. with all the coins spinning everywhere to bowsers castle it all looks so cool. The entire experience was so cool it looks so realistic.
Unfortunately it is super busy which, means that most of the time you have to get a timed entry ticket to even enter, and the lines reflect the busyness. Mario kart ride 60-100 minutes Minecart madness (Donkey kong themed rollercoaster) 120-180 minutes Yoshi adventure (ride in a small car and observe the scenery) 50-90 minutes. My favourite was minecart madness because its a roller coaster. It is actually interesting how it works your actually in a minecart looking thing with a 2.5 meter under you is the wheels and there is a motor there so it's not a proper coaster. For Mario Kart you are in a four person kart and you have these mario hats on and a vr visor on them so you can shoot shells at stuff on the screen to get points or you can accurately turn and get points (I was the best out of the four of us).
Yoshi's adventure is just a slow look at the scenery type of ride. Overall it was super cool just way too busy.