Okay, this is our day for wrapping up loose ends. I had left it open in case we got rained out or Wild Child got a migraine one day or we needed to change plans for any reason. We have an ADR at Kona at 6:40, and I love to walk down to the beach afterwards for the water parade and fireworks. So if we feel like it we will do that. Wishes are at 9 pm so we wont get back to Pop TOO late. We have been talking about the water parks all week and we still havent made it there.
We also had thought about hitting Disney Quest today. Originally we had planned to check out on Saturday and then spend the rest of the day at MK to re-do our favorites there and catch anything we had missed, but we re-evaluated and decided we can do a water park this morning and then go to MK for the afternoon since it is easy to get to Kona from there. Then tomorrow we will go to DTD after check-out so I can do my souvenir shopping and we can check out DQ. Dreamy is really getting into the video and computer games, so we know he will love DQ. DH and I have to catch ME earlier than we expected so we probably wont go to DQ at all. As it turns out, we were REALLY glad we decided to go to MK today.
We let Dreamboy pick the water park, and after all his research by watching The Top Seven Must-Sees at Disney ( or whatever that show was) he picked Blizzard Beach.
DD and I thought this would probably be the best for the kids since Dreamy is not adventurous and probably wouldnt do any slides, the kids areas at BB looked great, and the wave pool at BB is not as rough.
As usual, Dreamboy and I set off first. DD and Wild Child would follow when she got going, and DH and DSIL would take a pass.
We put on our swimsuits, and got slathered and sprayed. Dreamy had on his anti sunburn water shirt, since he has that milk and roses fair complexion. I grabbed the beach towels and made sure we had the goggles, water shoes, waterproof pass-holder, cellphone in a plastic bag, clothes to change into, etc. and off we went. We got to BB in time to take advantage of about 20 minutes of EMH, which is a really nice perk at the water parks. I highly encourage you to use this option if you are staying on property.
There were already people starting to line up at the gate and it got crowded pretty quickly after ten. We headed over to the little kids area and dropped off our towel bag on a chair and then went to the older kids Ski Patrol Training Camp. Dreamboy surprised me by heading right to the iceberg crossing area and giving it a try. He got across with no problem so headed on to the next one. Then he tried one of the slides which dont use rafts, but he kept getting stuck. The lifeguard said it was probably his water shirt. So I suggested he try the one with a raft. I offered to go up with him and follow him down, so he took me up on it. We went down twice, and these were our only slides of the day!
We decided to go look for the wave pool. At this point I saw I had a missed call from DD, so called back and they were in the park. We went and met them at our chair.
They went with us to the wave pool for a while, then we returned to Tikes Peak, where Wild Child had a blast on the slides. Dreamy and I went off to give the lazy river a try. I found out that getting Dreamy and myself on tubes while holding onto two tubes was not as easy as it looked!
After a few miscues, we made it, and off we went on our relaxing? trip.
Well, it might have been relaxing if I hadnt been so busy trying to keep our tubes together and steer us away from the sprays and downpours along the way!
After heading about a third of the way around, I started thinking about how long this would take and that we were going to be late for the rest of the day, so when Dreamboy told me he needed to go to the bathroom it made a great excuse to get out.
We reconnected with DD and Wild Child, changed into our clothes, and headed back to Pop. We dont have pictures because I didnt want to keep up with my good camera and forgot the disposable one in the room.