I must say I had a brilliant day today!

I got to the rally quite early as I hadn't the slightest clue where it was as I have never been before. I met a couple of people off the forum including Adrian and Adam. It was nice to see Marcus again and he left me laughing all day after what he said quite early on.

The highlights of the day though have to be us shouting requests at John and Mark to change the blind on the OmniDekka and OmniCity. We ended up having the OmniCity on the S1 and the OmniDekka on the 706/707!

As well as this, Arriva North East let me loose in the cab of the 7627 (Max - X12 branded Wright Eclipse Gemini 2) and I ended up changing the blind to all kinds, including it going to Birtley on the 82 and Staff Shuttle. Then, I was aloud into the cab of 1323 (Alexander Enviro 200) and I ended up changing the blind to 'North East Bus and Coach Show', 'Nexus Bus', X12, 82/83 and even more random stuff including a strange pattern of letters and numbers! I haven't the slightest clue why that was programmed in!

I ended up going out and about on Arriva's Gemini 2 and on John's OmniDekka. Both were pleasant journeys even if the little radgies at the back of the bus kept pressing the bell over and over and over again.

To end the day I got A-Line's Optare Exel back to Durham which was driven by Daniel Annis, quite well I must say also!

I met some really nice people today, and I thoroughly enjoyed the day.