Doctor Who Fans Unite!

This weekend I went to Swansea to visit my friend Erin from Canada, she's currently working over here and offered to show me around Wales and take me to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff. It was yet another early weekend for me, getting up at 5am to be able to catch my train at 7:45am in London was not fun but I did sleep a bit on the train so it made up for it. I got into Swansea at about 11am where I met Erin at the train station and she showed me around.


We went by all the shops and Christmas festivals going on, then it began it rain. Was not fun! I've noticed that each weekend I go away somewhere it always rains, hopefully this streak will stop for my next trip (more on that later). We spent the day catching up with one another and going to different places in Swansea, we went to a museum and saw a presentation on Doctor Who - it was really interesting. One of the speakers is a rapper and he made a rap about Doctor Who, watch it it's pretty good : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMU5CmTKHk

On Sunday we made our way to Cardiff, it was a very Doctor Who filled day. We went to the Torchwood entrance as well as the shrine for it - which is on the pier sort of near the Doctor Who Experience. We made our way over to the Doctor Who Experience and I have it say it was pretty cool! Now I've seen a couple of episodes of Doctor Who but I have not seen a lot, my siblings and mom are bigger fans than I am so I really went for them so I could tell them all about it. I have made a promise with myself to start watching it come the new year so I can appreciate the Experience more.

When you first go in the first 25minutes you are apart of a Doctor Who episode. The Doctor (Matt Smith at this time) is trapped in Pandora's box and you have help free him. You get to walk inside the Tardis, drive it but then become kidnapped by Darleks. The Doctor helps you out of there but then the Weeping Angels start coming after you - they are even scarier in person!

After fighting them off you save the Doctor and return to Earth. After the Episode they have on display costumes from all the Doctors and the most recent companions. They have wax figures of all the aliens and monsters as well. The Experience ends with a stop at the gift shop. Overall it was a pretty cool building - any Doctor Who fan would appreciate it. After that we walked around a bit more before grabbing some dinner and seeing a movie (Saving Mr. Banks). I took the 8pm train home and was back in Uxbridge just after 11pm. It was a very full weekend but well worth it!

Now we're at 8 days until Christmas and then it'll be the new year, where did the time go?

Merry Christmas everyone and Have A Happy New Year!