Forever Young

I still love not working on Fridays and it's especially nice when a holiday is thrown into the mix and I get a much needed four days off. Thank you Independence Day. To start, Joe and I decided to take a trip down to Williamsburg for a day at the water park. The "water park" description doesn't do it justice though, because I consider Water Country USA to be THE water park. Joe and I couldn't believe it had been five years since we last visited (even more crazy...we have been together more than 5 years!). But, as it turns out, Water Country will always be a step back in time because nothing had changed. Sure, now there is a fancy turn style that scans in your tickets and recognizes your finger prints, but the very first slides in view have totally been there for all 25 years this place has been open. Luckily, or maybe not so luckily, I weigh more now and don't get turned around backwards in my tube while going down those particular slides but, the experience is still just as joyful as the days I had to make sure I was tall enough to ride.

We started at 10am and didn't quit until dinner time. Joe's favorite ride is one of the newer attractions (new meaning less than 10 years old) and is really just a jazzed up lazy river. It's 3 feet deep zooming water that carries you along in your life jacket. You can float there all day long. The Hubba Hubba Highway:


I'm still partial to a more traditional slide that is fun because it's mostly in the dark so you cant see the twists and drops ahead. Malibu Pipeline:

Always entertaining in a water park is checking out the hot specimen surrounding you (see picture above).

The biggest disappointment of the day was learning that the Lemon Drop was no more. Instead, in it's place, was a incredibly disappointing children's slide. What were they thinking?

BEFORE

AFTER

We had a lot of fun! We spent the night in Williamsburg on Thursday. On Friday, we had breakfast, spent the day at the outlets, and returned home. We were mesmerized by the amount of traffic traveling south on 95 that day. I think we made a wise decision to go early! On Saturday, Joe visited his grandparents and once he returned we met his family for some fun on the boat on the river. Everyone (except me) tried their hand at knee boarding. While we didn't actually go see any fireworks, we had a decent view of multiple shows down at the beach on both Friday and Saturday, right from our window. As usual, Sunday has become the recovery/errands/cleaning day. A 4-day weekend well spent, if you ask me! Hope everyone had a great holiday too!

Pictures from Theme Park Review.