Wet 'n' Wild

On Tuesday we got up on time and had some breakfast in our room.  Although the room was considerably bigger than our caravan it certainly wasn't spacious.  However, having our own bathroom was AMAZING.

On our way to Wet'n'Wild we stopped to pick up some food for the day, then continued our 20 minute drive to the park.  As we had our tickets already we didn't have to queue so we headed in and found Wet'n'Wild Junior.  Rowan and Axel loved the pool and the older kids could get used to some mild waterslides to ease them into the bigger slides.  My concerns of them being too scared to do the rides were unfounded!

 

 Chad, Karli and Brenton all headed off to the more exciting rides with Mars. I was quite happy to stay in my comfort zone in the kiddies pool! Eventually I managed to persuade Rowan to go and watch Mars and the kids on the rides - just as they were coming to meet me. So we headed off to watch the kids do some more rides, then I even did a few.

 Watching Chad & Karli tube together was so cool! Teamwork!

We rotated through the rides - the Black Hole, Kamikaze and the Tornado. The kids would carry the tubes up ALL the stairs, do the 1 minute ride, then want to head straight back up again! There was a point when we got to the top of the Tornado ride that I told the kids that I wouldn't be able to do the ride - would they go without me? There was no way they were going without me so I just had to grin and try enjoy the ride. And we did! We got to the bottom and headed straight back up again!

After some lunch the kids had to slow down for a while so we went on the lazy Calypso Beach ride.  It was very relaxing and enjoyable!

From there Mars headed off with Chad, Karli and Brenton to do some of the other slides. One of the rides only Mars could do - due to the minimum weight restriction (much to Chads disgust - he was 2kgs too light!)

Axel was having a fabulous sleep so Rowan got to enjoy lots of time in the Junior area.  He eventually made his way over to the small waterslides and bravely did a few.  On one of the rides he fell into a laying position and got a face full of water so he was NOT happy when I got to him! Once he got his confidence back he was going up and down, up and down on another mild water slide.

  

When Chad, Karli and Brenton got back they stayed in the Junior section for a while then we all headed over to the Mammoth Falls, followed by a swim in the Wave Pool.

With an hour till closing time the rides became very quiet so Mars headed off to the 'scarier' rides with the older kids and had a blast!

As we got ready to head out of the park, Rowan gave up trying to stay awake. He was asleep before we got to the carpark!

On our drive back to the hotel we picked up some pizza and had dinner in our room, followed by showers and bed!