Our family plus two borrowed teenagers went to
Raging Waters water park
last Friday. We came home sunburnt (despite covering everyone with
sunblock), tired, and happy. My favorite “ride” is the Endless River,
a long looping stream you can float around in for as long as you like.
The kids mostly liked the wilder attractions, the Dragon’s Den and
Serpentine Slides being the favorites. We rented two tube floats at the
start of the day so that we did not have to wait in line so often – that
was money well spent.
The best part of the park is people watching. People watching in the
Bay Area is always fascinating, as you would expect in a community which
boasts of 300 languages. With everyone bouncing around in the water
with their friends and kids and wearing very little, it is even more fun.
Physical differences of size and color are particularly noticeable. Skins
are everything from plum dark to the skim milk white of my own daughter,
hair is every cut, style, and color that nature and bottles offer, and
the tattoos (both permanent and just-for-the-day) are just amazing. One
young man I first saw on a float in the Endless River was mostly notable
for his brightly dyed yellow hair and the new black tattoos on his back.
Out of the water, he drove a bright red wheelchair.
My husband (who stands close to 2 meters tall) and I were in the Wave Pool
in the middle of a crowd of folks from Tonga or Samoa and we felt very
small. We also saw just-walking kidlets at about knee height and every
size in between.
If the food weren’t so dull and expensive, we would go more often but
even so, Raging Waters is a fine
place to spend a hot summer day.
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