A Day at the Water Park

18th May 2008

posted in a little bit of everything, kids |

A few months ago, my daughter participated in a fund raising event at school for the American Heart Association. She did a good job and was able to raise $150.

Last week, she came home with a few little prizes for her fund raising rewards. To our surprise, she also received 2 free tickets to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor water park in Arlington, TX. The tickets were good today only and, because the weather has been so funky, I told her we wouldn’t be able to confirm plans to go until we knew what the weather was going to do.

Well, today turned out to be the warmest day we’ve had so far this hear. It was supposed to reach almost 90 degrees, so we decided to pack our beach towels, put on our swim suits and head out. It’s about an hour drive, but since it was Sunday, the traffic was pretty light. We didn’t get to the park until around noon, but that was fine, we still were able to have a fun time.

My daughter and I did about 6 or 7 of the water slides. We prefer the ones that you ride a raft of some sort on, easier on the body in my opinion. Our favorite though is the new Tornado. The raft can hold 2-4 people (my husband wouldn’t go), and it drops down a chute that leads to a huge funnel like thing. It’s fast and crazy, just the way we like it. We liked it so much in fact, we rode it twice.

We had a lot of fun today, now we’re sitting here relaxing. How was your weekend?

Tags: water parks

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1 On May 18th, 2008, Ellen said:

Sounds like you’ll have a great time and the weather did cooperate!!! In fact it got a little too warm for me and I like it much cooler. My day was great and I worked pretty much all day on my computer. I’ve not been to 6 Flags in years but I’ve driven past it so many times.

Ellen’s last blog post..A Southener’s Trip To New York

posted on May 18th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

2 On May 18th, 2008, lynne said:

Ellen - I don’t think I’ve been to Six Flags since I was in college 20+ years ago! It did turn out to be the perfect day today to be at the water park though, the lines weren’t too bad and my daughter had a blast.

posted on May 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

3 On May 19th, 2008, Search Engine Panel said:

Up here in Canada it’s much too cold for a water park, but it was Victoria Day weekend and we set off some fireworks!

Search Engine Panel’s last blog post..More Secrets to Search Engine Optimized Content

posted on May 19th, 2008 at 5:28 am

4 On May 19th, 2008, Stacy said:

Sounds like you guys had a blast! It’s been raining here. I’ve always liked the sixflags parks lots of things to do.

Stacy’s last blog post..Crawfish

posted on May 19th, 2008 at 11:51 am

5 On May 19th, 2008, lynne said:

Happy Victoria Day! I love fireworks! It was unusually warm here yesterday, so the waterpark turned out to be the perfect way to pass the day, even if the water was very cold.

posted on May 19th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

6 On May 19th, 2008, lynne said: