Day at the Water Park

Today was a great family day, we don't get many of these since money is tight. A couple of weeks ago I received an email about a free family day at Downpour water park in Algonkian, so we couldn't pass this up. A local church and organization were sponsoring it, all you had to do was bring in a new backpack to donate to a local charity and got all day free to the water park, miniature golf and the moon bounce. It was our first time at the water park and it was a blast. For me it was weird being back there, since I was there a lot as a kid, when it was just a pool.

They still had the big pool and the baby pool was transformed to this big water play area. It had a couple of little slides, water features everywhere some even had wheels that you could turn to adjust the water pressure and a huge bucket that filled up with water and dump about every 5 minutes or so. It comes down with such force that my bathing suit bottom almost came off, but it was fun. Evan actually did it and wasn't afraid.

Joni had a lot of fun as well. She didn't mind the water falling on her head, she would actually walk through a couple of them. There was also this other section that had water features, but you were on the concrete not in the pool. It had fountains everywhere and had the cone shaped buckets that filled up with water and dumped on you, Evan and Paul did this one. There was also a Flower shower, which Joni liked.

Where the diving boards used to be were to giant tube slides. We couldn't go on those because the kids weren't tall enough. Evan might be able to go next year if he has grown any by then. They also had a couple of slides that looked like tree trunks for smaller kids, who could swim, go on. Evan loved going on the one is the shallow end because he was tall enough that he didn't go under. The other one was in the deeper end, which we saw the lifeguard jump in twice within 5 minutes to save to little kids whom couldn't swim. Why there parents let them I don't understand?

Anyway it was a lot of fun and will have to go back next year for sure, just wish I had remembered the camera.