Bank Holiday Monday (yeah that was yesterday)

Had an early start to yesterday... (well got outta the house 9:30... that may be late for some but hell yo its early for me). I had to make it to my friend's place by 11 and being bank holiday i wasnt sure how frequent the underground and all would be. But it was good, got there on time. Then we set off down to Southend where were supposed to meet up with some friends. Now Southend is like a seaside place with all kinda rides and has a fair kinda atmosphere. All kinda people selling all kinda stuff. Had never been there before, only heard of it. Anyways, so we set off.. it was about a 35 mile drive from my friend's place. Props to K n his K-mobile (Merc C240 '02 to anyone who's interested)... effortless cruiser... we were tearin up the motorway (freeway to some of you out there) at 100mph easy and it wasnt even noticeable. The car has an awesome sound system too.... Oh and he likes his music loud! (i'm gettin carried away here)

So yes we're on the way down, and as soon as we see the 10 mile sign for Southend, the traffic slows down. I'm like what the??? Its still moving but not as fast... turns out there was an airshow at Southend too... and since the weather was majorly awesome... the traffic was mad! Anyways... took us a good hour and a half to make the 35 mile journey.. (most of it being spent in the last 10 miles of the journey). We get there, take around 20 min to find a spot to park. Then we juss walked around.

The airshow was awesome, we had some low flying planes around there. First there were some old kinda planes doing some stunts. There was this one stunt which particularly stuck out. This plane does a low pass near the crowd and then turns and goes straight up. And it kept slowing all the while its going up until it literally came to a stop. It's pointing upwards, spinning in position, but is at a complete standstill vertically. It stayed like that for a good 10 secs or so (that is a long time for a plane to juss stay in one position like that) and then the pilot juss let it fall down before he pulled her out and soared away. Awesome stuff.

Then there were other tricks and stunts but it wasnt till the harrier came out that i took notice. To those of you who dont know, the Harrier Jump Jet as its called, is something the Brit Airforce has had for quite a while now. The thing about these planes is they can take off and land vertically. They dont need no runways and stuff. Now this plane first flew around for a bit doing ur regular loops and stuff. Then he decided to come to a complete stop in mid-air. Then he moves it forward a bit, stops.. and then moves backwards.. me and a friend are looking at it and we're like gobsmacked. I mean its common knowledge the harrier is able to do all this, but seeing it with your own eyes is unbelieveable.. a plane going backwards.. wowsers.. Then he went sideways as well.. not forward or backwards.. but sideways... oooh i could go on forever.. it was awesome though...

The bad bit about going southend was the fact that the weather was good... nice and sunny.. (now u ask how that could be bad) well, that gave people the excuse to shed all their close except for the bare necessities. (ok maybe i'm exgerrating a bit but it wasnt a pretty sight). Now since i hadnt been to a seaside in this country till now and had forgotten what the weather would do to people, it wasnt till we got there that i was like.. err...wrong place.. Problem is I couldnt get out either cuz we were getting together after 4-5 months so i couldnt juss walk out. But me and my friend were uneasy so it was either scanning the sidewalk for chewing gum marks or lookin' up at planes. So much so that we were outta there in less than 2 hours (half an hour of which was spent in a Halal place staring at food). We were walking most of the time so got pretty tired. And again props to K and his car, soo comfortable the journey back was good. All in all had a nice day... got to see old friends. Wish it coulda been in a different setting though. Oh well, cant have it all can we??

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