Chapter 11. Welcoming Wedgies and observations
The day started out like most except we did not have to get up as early we woke at 7:30, and of course parker was giving us his butt side while trying to wake him up.
but after he found out that it was water park day and he got to swim all day he was up pretty fast.
We were out there door and waiting for the bus at about 8:15ish. dont we look awake for a day of swimming and relaxing.
we were in the park by 9:00
and everything was dropped off at the locker and me and my dad were up the ski lift and ready to go down the Summit Plummit by 9:20
They had something new that they did not have in the past years, or at least never had when we were there. They had 2 photopass people at the bottom of Summit Plummit, one had a giant 2 foot long lens on the camera, and got your face when you were going over the drop and the other got the wedgy face when you got off the drop.
we grabbed the rest of the group from the seating area, and went back in line for the ski lift, parker was 2 inches tall enough to ride, and he loved it, candi was very nervous for him since he had to ride on the outside so the bar was between his legs, but i sat in the middle and held him tight and held hte bar down so there was no way he could squirm out of there.
then we went onthe family tub ride which he loved, and had a ball he laughed the whole way down.
next was time for parkers play area.
he had a blast going down this tub ride.
and some of the smaller slides for him.
then we noticed that there was a photopass person in the kid area, just kind of walking around waiting to take pictures, well no one was asking her to take pictures of htere kids so i jumped on it...
i asked if she would mind taking a few of parker, and she said sure ill follow him around for a while and get him on different stuff.
first she got him on the straight slides.
then she went over to the tube slide with him,
then she followed him around to the big splash area and just let him play around and got action shots...some were not as actiony as others.
where she got a good one as he was folling off the alligator.
i saying he was celebrating and got very excited over his personal photo shoot.
then he started jumping around in the water and jumping high in the air and landing on his butt.
she even went above and beyond what she already was and even got down in the water, so she was almost laying down to get a shot of him jumping she was trying to get lower than him so she could get him above the camera, but he didnt want to jump when she was that low, so she sat up some and he kept going.
then he wanted to go over to summit plummit and try and sit up for a picture.
just kidding, it was the kids triple slides, and she took a few more there, i came down after him,
and got him good with a wall of water.
after i did that once, he loved it and made me come down after him each time to sray him with water, he would go down and say dada, and i would have to slide down and he would take the water head on in the face, and just laugh like crazy.
so we were very pleased with our photopass lady, she really did go above and beyond the call we just wanted 1 picture from her and she did well above that.
we were very happy to get so many good shots of parker playing in there.
lunch time came pretty quick and we headed to the lodge to get something to eat...normal CS stuff, burgers wraps and chili dogs around. on the way there candi and parker ran into goofy and a photopass person so they stopped for a few to hang out with him.
after lunch we went back on a few more slides, did the tobagon slides, lazy river, and more kids area as well.
now this chapter wouldnt be anything without a few lessons learned, or perhaps I should make this chapter about observations i witnessed.
So here we go....
this can also be a section called, "I'm Just sayin"
Observation #1. People should think about what that tattoo will look like in 10-15 years and parts of the body that will sag
("I'm Just sayin") (we saw a few that were not very appealing and maybe they used to be)
Observation #2. Some brazilian thongs should stay in brazil
"I'm Just sayin"
Observation #3. Some people are not meant to wear certain suites, but seeing what we saw, maybe I could pull of that speedo look.
"I'm Just sayin"
Observation #4. If it has been 10 years since you last wore your bathing suite and you are going on a trip that requires a bathing suite, maybe try it on before you go to see if A. it is still in style or B. if it actually fits like it did 15 years ago.
"I'm Just sayin"
when we were on our way out, parker was saying his feet were hurting this was the first time all day he said something, and we were immediatly kicking ourselves...
he showed us his feet, and he had 3 little red marks on his toes from the hot ground were they were burnt from walking...we felt so bad for him and mad at us that we went to get him some shoes for the rest of the trip, papa wouldnt let us get them, he felt even worse that he didnt think about getting him some water shoes, so he bought him some buzz light year ones at the gift shop for the rest of water days there, and playing at the pool.
coming up next we get ready for ohana time.