Thursday
July 17, 2014 – Day 2:
Today, we decided to spend a major part of our day
in Fallsview Water Park, near Casino Niagara.
I had no idea a water park could be so huge because I’d never been to a
real water park (the one we experienced in Jamaica last winter was very tiny by
comparison). It was built on top of a
9-story parking lot and the water park itself was 5 or 6 stories high! For example, if you wanted to go down a water
slide from the very top, it took almost half an hour or so (for me) to climb the
stairs to the top and then half a minute, if that, to slide down. There were lots of different slides there,
but I only went on a Body Slide, which does not involve using a mat or a
tube.
You lie flat on your back, fold
your arms in front of your chest, cross your ankles and then you go. The first slide was awesomely terrifying! You slide a short distance horizontally and
then drop vertically very fast for a few seconds and at the bottom of the
slide, finish in a horizontal plane.
Just before going down it, I prayed out loud to myself, “Please, let me
live…..let me live!” I was not kidding about
this because even a roller coaster ride would have been less terrifying than
this first Body Slide was to me. I only
went down one other Body Slide which was not as scary and I did not attempt any
of the other slides. It would have taken
me too long to climb up all those stairs and too scary to slide down.
Brent paid for the day for all of us. It cost him $50 per person, whether you were
an adult or a child, so that was $150 altogether, an all-day entry
fee. We each got a plastic wristband
which would allow us to come and go as we pleased, and one locker with a key to
stow our valuables and clothes while we were in the water park. We ended up staying there only three or four
hours, up until James told us that he’d hurt his hip and needed to stop sliding. Until that time, he was very active on all
the slides and loved every second of it.
Brent and I had stopped a bit for a snack and a
drink in the water park’s snack bar, while James continued non-stop. We then dried ourselves off,
dressed, and left the water park mid-afternoon thinking we would return later
on, but it didn’t turn out that way. We
were all pretty tired by evening time, so Brent and James just returned the
locker key; we did not return to slide further.
There are so many things to do in Niagara Falls that you can’t possibly
do all of them in one trip, but, oh boy, did we try!
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