Saturday, July 25, 2009

Lost Island Waterpark

Dance Marathon added Lost Island Waterpark in Waterloo as their 2nd summer activity this year. We of course jumped at the chance to go to a waterpark. The week leading up to today was very chilly and not such great waterpark weather. Today wasn't the warmest either, but it was at least in the low 80's.

Simeon had been talking about going down Lost Souls Fall-a free fall body slide for weeks. We hadn't been at the park very long before he said he was ready to go on it. We measured him and he was just at the height he needed to be. He ran up and went right down. His face at the bottom of the slide looked scared, but he came out cheering and saying it was "AWESOME", but that it hurt his back. He then went on it 2 more times.




Ammon must get colder faster then anyone else because he was shivering and his lips were blue tinged, but he kept going. He found out that laying on the ground was warm, so he'd lay down while Johann was taking Corrine on a ride to warm up. He also had his life vest on which might have kept the water on him longer, and the slight breeze made it chilly at times.


Corrine loved the wave pool, and even when mom was with her (who wasn't swimming) she still wanted to go far into on her tube. She doesn't mind getting her face wet and was up for any ride dad took her on.


We really enjoyed this waterpark. We've been to almost all of them in Iowa nd this is our favorite. It had 3 play areas for younger kids and lots of different areas to sit at. It had so many slides all over the park. The lazy river was really long, and it was so nice and easy to get in and out of. It was also shallow enough that even Ammon could walk through it.



Rebecca being only 3 weeks old I was not about to let her new skin get burned. She spent the day in the front carrier with a hat on her head and a blanket covering her body. Rebecca and mom spent lots of time at the bottom of the slides waiting and following everyone else around.

1 comment:

The Jenson's said...

WOW Simeon is so brave to go on that slide. I would be a chicken and say no way.