Tuesday!

Instead of working in the office all day on a beautiful Tuesday, why not consider taking a few teens to the water slides?!

This was my Tuesday...

I picked up the three kids and one other adult who were free (a sad testament to how busy kids are these days!) at about 9:30, drove to the coffee shop and ordered a Decaf Soy Latte and a hot breakfast sandwich (I generally discourage frequenting Starbucks, but they do have a drive through window and now offer breakfast sandwiches... I caved, what can I say). We got gas (for the car, not from the breakfast sandwich), and hit the road at about 10. A short 38 minute drive later we arrived to find that the park opened at 11 during the week (excellent timing).

We got our tickets, changed, and applied sun block liberally -- just in time for the park to open!

Never have I been to a water park this cool. I'm pretty sure I was at least as excited as the kids to get to play in the sun for a whole day!

Most of the slides used inner-tubes (single, double, triple, and even quad tubes), which turned out to be pretty awesome. Mind you, I haven't been to a water park since Marine World was in Redwood Shores and they had the "Tiger Mountain Rapids" water slides, so I've never really been to a water park that used inner-tubes -- or that had fully enclosed water-slide tubes, jets of water that propelled you uphill, vortices that attempted to separate your plasma from red cells, parabolic slides with a fifty-foot drop, and pitch-dark slides that ejected you into a funnel and eventually dumped you into an 8-foot deep pool.

Mighty-8-bit, Punky-spice, and I went on every slide at least once and made it to our favorites twice (they had about ten different slides), but what ended up being one of the 'funnest' attractions was the circular "river" that you could just float down on old fashioned truck inner-tubes. There were several points at which there were waterfalls and we would try to force each other under these to get soaked -- but primarily it was a great way to chat, so we killed about an hour and a half just floating around in circles chatting.

All in all... not a bad day's work!