Day 21: Raging Waters Water Park

Wednesday, July 13

We had breakfast at the concierge lounge at the Marriot and Valentin spilled his entire hot chocolate. After cleaning up the mess we went back to our room and put on our bathing suits. Around 11:00 Valentin, Viki, Max, and Mom left the hotel. Dad was already at work. The water park, Ragging Waters, advertised as the largest water park in Northern California(23 acres) was probably the only one in Northern california too. The water park was on the shore of a lake and had eleven water slides. In all it had 10 main attractions. They were the Lazy river, Wave pool, Dragons den, which dropped you down a tube into a bowl and you went around h bowl a few times until you came out at the end, The Barracuda which was boring and long. You sit in a large boat and ride all the way down. They also had a pirates cove for little kids were water was pouring out everywhere. They had an attraction with two slides called Shotgun falls where you go down a ten foot slide and then fell five feet to the water. A ride for Valentin was a twenty foot long ten feet wide water fall like slide. After you went down you were in a small lazy river and went down two more two foot water falls. The great white shark was a long slide were you where in a double tube and went through a tunnel for part of the ride. There were the great Pharoahs that was a ride that had three slides that were almost all the same. One was yellow, orange, and pink. Yellow was fastest an orange made the most people fall. My favorite attraction was the most popular one called speed slides. There were two slides, White Lightning and Blue Thunder. You went down a narrow slide for a few turns and then went almost straight down the rest of the way. White Lightning had bumps that made you fly 2-3 inches off the ground during your ride. When we were back at the hotel at 6:00, we went to an Italian place without Dad, who had a business dinner, called Tomatina. They had great food. We went to bed late at 11:30.

Day 21: Raging Waters