West Edmonton Mall Water park
Oct. 30th, 2009 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13Yesterday my friend Jesse came to town. He emailed me ahead of time and offered to take me to the West Edmonton mall waterpark. I'd never been before, but various people had told me that the waterpark was awesome.
We used to go to the West Edmonton mall when I was a kid, and I loved watching this one particular slide at the waterpark. It was one slide where you twisted around and then dropped out, falling about 5 feet into the water.
I was quite excited to go on that particular slide and I got to fulfill a childhood dream yesterday. Since we were at the park on a weekday, it was a lot cheaper and less busy than the weekends. The lockers at the park cost $7 and they're computerized. You type a security code into a computer which unlocks and re-locks the locker for you.
There were strange signs around the pool which told you that- "Noseblowing, and urinating in the pool were prohibited." They also warned you not to go into the pool if you'd had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks. (I have never seen the diarrhea or the noseblowing signs before)
The waterpark is quite huge. It's got the world's largest wave pool, which makes 5 foot high waves. This was quite nice and we sat in the pool and visited a lot. Then we went on a variety of the slides. They have beginner ones, intermediate ones, advanced and extreme. I hadn't been on a waterslide for years, so I started off with a tame one called "The Corkscrew." This was followed by an extreme one called "Nessie's revenge." This one actually launches you into the air! You go up into the air as you clear a big bump! It was fun, but intense.
We followed this up with my favourite "The Tropical Typhoon." My friend Jesse called it "The Tidy Bowl". This was the one that I'd watched when I was a kid. This one spins you around and then you fly around a huge bowl that swirls you around like a toilet. You then fall five feet into a pool of 10 foot deep water. This was pretty intense and scary, but incredibly fun.
We went on one that required tubes, sat in the hot tub and repeated some of the slides. My least favourite was a slide called "The Blue Bullet". This slide is closed in and completely dark, and you can't see where you are going. I'm claustrophobic, so I HATED this slide. Jesse had a friend's waterproof camcorder, so he made some videos of us going down the slides. It was a lot of fun and I'd recommend doing it. However, after sliding for almost 2 hours, I was dizzy and waterlogged. Very intense, but I'd go again.
We used to go to the West Edmonton mall when I was a kid, and I loved watching this one particular slide at the waterpark. It was one slide where you twisted around and then dropped out, falling about 5 feet into the water.
I was quite excited to go on that particular slide and I got to fulfill a childhood dream yesterday. Since we were at the park on a weekday, it was a lot cheaper and less busy than the weekends. The lockers at the park cost $7 and they're computerized. You type a security code into a computer which unlocks and re-locks the locker for you.
There were strange signs around the pool which told you that- "Noseblowing, and urinating in the pool were prohibited." They also warned you not to go into the pool if you'd had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks. (I have never seen the diarrhea or the noseblowing signs before)
The waterpark is quite huge. It's got the world's largest wave pool, which makes 5 foot high waves. This was quite nice and we sat in the pool and visited a lot. Then we went on a variety of the slides. They have beginner ones, intermediate ones, advanced and extreme. I hadn't been on a waterslide for years, so I started off with a tame one called "The Corkscrew." This was followed by an extreme one called "Nessie's revenge." This one actually launches you into the air! You go up into the air as you clear a big bump! It was fun, but intense.
We followed this up with my favourite "The Tropical Typhoon." My friend Jesse called it "The Tidy Bowl". This was the one that I'd watched when I was a kid. This one spins you around and then you fly around a huge bowl that swirls you around like a toilet. You then fall five feet into a pool of 10 foot deep water. This was pretty intense and scary, but incredibly fun.
We went on one that required tubes, sat in the hot tub and repeated some of the slides. My least favourite was a slide called "The Blue Bullet". This slide is closed in and completely dark, and you can't see where you are going. I'm claustrophobic, so I HATED this slide. Jesse had a friend's waterproof camcorder, so he made some videos of us going down the slides. It was a lot of fun and I'd recommend doing it. However, after sliding for almost 2 hours, I was dizzy and waterlogged. Very intense, but I'd go again.
