The rest of the time during the Dolphin excursion was spent hanging around the water park. It wasn’t Raging Waters, but it was fun because there were only about 50 of us running around the park. Jae had a blast since he had never been to a water park. We tried pretty much all of the slides. Jae even had discussions with some of the little kids over which slide was more exciting and which to try next.

I think I must have gotten more chicken as I got older. As I looked down the first slide I wanted to back out. Really, at my age, do I want to be hurtling down a slide at break neck speedand then unexpectedly get dumped into a pool? Sighing, I dug around and reached for whatever was left in my courage bucket, got in the inner tube and prayed I don’t end up up-side-down. Of course, 2 seconds after I entered the slide, my tube turned and I went down the entire slide backwards and freaked out.

I had to seriously scrape the bottom of my courage bucket for the last one. A long twisty tube that instead of ending straight into the water, ended in a funnel. A huge funnel where I did two complete circles around it before I lost all momentum and dropped, in a fetal position, head first, a good 4 feet into the water. Jae appropriately calls it the toilet bowl. After I came down, I stood by and had a hilarious time watching 2 kids and Jae drop from the funnel.

I shall never flush another spider down the toilet… maybe.