So! This weekend we took the kids to
Wildwater Kingdom in Aurora, Ohio for their very first trip to a water park!
It was super funtimes. I was a little nervous about taking little kids to something like this - would there be enough for them to do? What about the logistics of base needs? But it all worked out great!
We left the littlest one with my parents for the afternoon. There would have been plenty for him to do and enjoy but one kid to one parent seemed like a better ratio for our first go at this:
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| I have no problem with getting all of the grandparent attention ALL TO MYSELF FOR ONCE. |
Plus it worked out really well to have one parent on top of the slides and the other catching at the bottom:
It's about a 45 min drive to Wildwater Kingdom from my house on the west side of Cleveland. We decided to go for the afternoon to be there in the heat of the day. This crazy cold summer is really messing up my pool related plans! But it worked out b/c the kids napped in the car on the way there and were good to go for the rest of the afternoon/evening:
We started out in the Splash Landing area - which, PIRATE SHIP!
The kids were a little nervous about the bigger slides on the ship (first time at a waterpark after all. Although they did try out some of them later in the day) but LOVED the smaller ones by the kiddie pool area. I think they went down the blue slide about 50 times:
Then we headed over to the Riptide Run area for a little lazy river action. The Dude freaked out a bit because he thought we were going to take him on this:
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| Liquid Lightning - aka NOT a kiddie ride. |
But then we explained that we were just walking past and that we could watch. After a few min of watching other people go down it he wanted to go himself! Sorry, buddy. Maybe in a couple of years.
After the lazy river we walked over to Tidal Wave Bay where the girl and I took a little poolside break:
While the Dude did this:
We stayed through one set of waves (so. much. fun.) and then made the kids get out b/c they were pretty toasty:
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| DONEZO. |
So we headed over to the Happy Harbor Cafe for some dinner:
While we were finishing up eating Matt snuck in a couple of runs on the body slides in Thunder Falls:
Then we headed back to Splash Landing for more, and more, and more, and more slides:
At that point I texted my mom that we were going to be a bit later picking up the little guy than I though b/c "They'd be happy if I told them that we just live here now."
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| SERIOUSLY. |
We ended the day with another trip through Riptide Run and some play on the animals in the Coral Cove (it was closed earlier in the day). Oh and they watched me take a trip down one of the tube slides b/c I couldn't leave without doing at least one!
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| I'm somewhere up there. |
All in all it was a great day. All of us had a ball. Totally worth it even with kids that are too small for some of the attractions. The best part? The looks on their faces:
Yay waterpark!
Disclosure: I am a Cedar Point Blogger. I was provided with tickets to Wildwater Kingdom as well as meals and parking. As always all opinions and photographs are my own.
