Day 73 - Wet n Wild

Well, there was much debate over which theme park to hit first, particularly with the weather the way it was yesterday.  Of course the whole family, except me, wanted to go to Wet n Wild, I don't know.......I just thought it would be nice to go to a water park without having to wear our jumpers!!!!!  But when we woke up the sun was shining brightly and the temp was going to be 26 degrees, so I totally lost the vote and everyone got into their bathers.  We had a bit of a hike, as we are staying north of Brisbane and the theme parks are all south, 86km to be exact, but none of them open until 10am so we have opted to go from here rather than book into to a hotel down there, as we will only go to two this time and do the others when we get back in January.

We passed Dreamworld on the way and when we got closer we could see all the roller coaster rides of Movie world and all the water slides next door.  Gasps came from the back seats and they couldn't look at everything quickly enough, we had three very excited children on our hands.  When we got out of the car we could not believe the people, the car park was just crawling with people and the line to get in was overflowing down to the car park.  It was going to be a long day.

We waited in line for about 30min before we had to get our photos taken for our VIP passes, then once through the gate I waited in line again for about 10 min to get a locker to put our valuables in, then I thought we had better do the loo before we start so we waited in line for about 15min for that, then finally ........yay.......we could hit one of the rides, so we raced up to the entrance of the first water slide where we waited 60min in line to go down our first slide which took about 10 seconds!!!!  "Suck it up" I was told, it was just going to be one of those days.  I'm glad we bought our own food and didn't have to line up for that as well.  We tackled as many rides as we could throughout the day.


The park is very similar to Adventure World but much bigger and with some much scarier rides.  Tori and Glen tackled some real adrenalin pumping slides while I took Shannae and Cody to some more sedate stuff!!!!  We had all our gear in one location which was our meeting place for the day.  Shannae and I lost track of Cody at one point and I thought I was going to have to put out a missing persons ad, however, we went back to where all our gear was and he was sitting there waiting for us as we had instructed them to do if they got lost.  I was amazed that he was able to find his way back amongst the thousands of people, but he wasn't stressed about it at all.  At about 4pm the park seemed to empty a little so that was probably the best part of the day as we were able to go on one of the rides with a big triple person tube, a couple of times with the whole family so that was great.

Anyway, we left when the place closed at 5pm thinking we will probably come back again in January hopefully out of school holidays, as our passes allow us unlimited entry until June.  We got home as quickly as we could as we had planned to babysit for Elizabeth and Charles so they could go out for dinner.  They had offered to do this for us originally, which we thought was just lovely and we will take them up on the offer before we leave, but we thought they too might also enjoy a night out so tonight was their night.  The kids all get on so well and it was nice to be able to sit in a lounge room and watch tv for the evening and make a cuppa in a real kitchen!!!!