Help! I’ve been tied in a towel and dragged to a water park! Help!
Okay, you can’t help anymore, it already happened. After the lovely fight Friday, beloved hubby did apologize, and tell me to take all the time I needed for my writing. How sweet.
Next day, of course, he starts maneuvering for a family outing, complaining that I need to spend time off my computer. Who saw that coming? Drat him. I’m willing to compromise, but he doesn’t know the meaning of the word. Seems like to him it means, “We’ll do it my way, and you’ll like it.”
I do insist on my way in certain things. But I don’t demand that he like it, just that he do what he’s told. (Just kidding.) (Not really.)
No, the water park wasn’t that bad. Especially since we were disappointed in the park itself, and only stayed four hours, instead of the whole day as he’d planned. For Tusconans or snowbirds, Justin’s WaterWorld is a much better value than Breakers. More slides, for kids and adults, more pools, less money to get in, and less emphasis on seperating you from what’s left after you get through the gates. For example, Justin’s has water fountains, plural, for drinking, and though they have places you can buy food, you can bring your own. Breakers has one and only one water fountain–at least that we found, and several employees in different parts of the park directed us to the same one, all the way up by the entrance, but you can buy soda or bottled water in several places. And yes, Breakers will search your backpack, making you remove all towels, sunscreen, etcetera, to make sure you aren’t carrying food in.
Breakers’ wave pool is pretty cool. But they only run it for maybe 10-15 minutes, then you have to wait 15 minutes before they start it up again. So the slides are packed when the wave pool is quiet (no slides into the wave pool) and the wave pool is packed when it’s on.
At Justin’s, you have to rent a mat for $2, and one dollar is only a deposit, and you don’t have to have a mat to slide. At Breakers, you can rent a tube for $6-8, and you have to have it to slide on half the slides. Or you can sit in line at the bottom and wait for one of the few free ones that stay with the slide, then get in line to slide.
Okay, enough of my comparative study. On to my writing.