Day 8 - Wet N Wild water park - 4th June

Wet N Wild Waterpark

Wednesday 4th June

Wet N Wild today Universal’s water park so let’s see how good it is compared to Disney’s Blizzard Beach!

 

Amy is sooo excited she is all ready just to get in the park and jump into the water!  New swimming costume on today too!

 

It was only a 5-10 minute drive from our house so here we are, excited about a water park today again, let’s go slide and have fun in the water!

 

 

Scan your ticket Amy let’s go Amy doesn’t need to scan her finger at Universal parks she can just scan her ticket and get straight in!

 

The wave pool with 4ft waves!

 

 

Here comes the wave Amy and Colin!!!

 

 

Here is the new ride that is due to open next week, June 12th Aqua Drag Racer and is going to be the tallest, fastest ride in Florida!

 

 

 

Looking over the park at the two slides The Surge and Disco H20.  We started queuing for Disco H20 and the Surge line was going down quicker so we jumped into the Surge line for our first family raft ride of the park.  It was cool so we came off and queued for Disco H20.  It was a bit strange as the lines used the same stairs so they only let 20 people go up from each line on separate occasions.  We are waiting around for ages for Disco H20 and did hope it was worth the wait but unfortunately the ride wasn’t good at all, bit dark, no music inside the ride and not that fast.  The music was better when we were waiting in the queue.  They were playing BeeGees songs, YMCA and Macho Men!!   People clapping and dancing away while we were standing in the queue which was pretty cool to start with and then the boredom of the long queues set in!!  The Surge was fast and a great family raft ride so we went on it for our last slide of the day too!

 

Disco H20 which was supposed to be a 1970's disco inside but it wasn't to our disappointment!

 

 

The end of the Surge ride with the family raft

 

 

The Lazy River which felt a bit quicker than normal and was bedlam rather than relaxing!  Amy swam in it as there were no rings for her to float and when she got one they were too big for her!

 

 

 

There were 3 different slides on these one sets of steps, The Flyer which was on a family dingy style raft, The Blast which was on a double and Colin had a single raft to go down the slide and then we did Mach V

 

 

The final bit of the slide on Mach 5, we could race each other but we all set off at different times, this slide was a single mat that you lay on and sped down the hill going round corners and over bumps that you came off the slide at, Amy loved it!!

 

 

Snack time – I had a chocolate covered with sprinkles frozen banana, Amy had buttered popcorn and Colin had his first Pretzel.  The frozen banana was a bit strange and Col found his Pretzel could have been done with something sweet on it rather than rock salt.  But atleast we can say we have tried them!

I am done in  the water park area but Colin and Amy head off into the Blastaway Beach which is the largest family water play area in Florida

 

Blastaway Beach has a 6 storey castle including 15 slides and 160 interactive water elements.  Amy and Col were in their elements!!

 

Four of the 15 slides in the Blastaway Beach, Amy and Colin loved the blue and yellow slides

 

The drop of water that was missing from the park, ha ha!!  It wasn’t particularly pleasant walking around the water park as they didn’t have sprinklers on the walkways to save you burning your feet as the paths get extremely hot in the sun.  They didn’t even have sprinklers when you were waiting in the queues to keep the rest of you cool either.  Not feeling the love from this park, we sound critics, don’t we, but other parks either had sprinklers for your feet or allowed you to wear beach shoes but Wet N Wild didn’t allow beach shoes and didn’t have sprinklers = not impressed and burny burny on our feet!!

 

There were other slides to go onto but the Black Hole and Brain Wash were two riders and I wasn’t entertaining either so Colin had to miss out, poor show no single riders allowed!  More love lost for the park and Colin just didn’t fancy The Storm swirling slide, Der Stuka or Bomb Bay fast straight down the hill slides. 

 

Brain wash!

So after all that hot walkways and water slides we headed home and guess where Amy headed??
Yes straight into the pool for a swim as if she didn't have enough water during the day. 
Water baby for sure!!!!

 

We had a shower and got ready for bed and then played a few games of table football,

 

 

 

 

basketball and then we moved onto

 

 

 

Pool!!  Nice to chill and play some games in the games room!  Amy loves the Isle of Man Manxie Flag!!  We have rented the house from a guy from the Isle of Man hence the Manx flag flying in the games room.  It is funny as we haven't thought much of the Isle of Man since we left on the 12th April so we are not homesick yet but that might hit us when we arrive in Australia?!?!

Now it is off to bed as we have Hollywood Studio’s to go to tomorrow!  We are not really looking forward to Hollywood Studio’s as there doesn’t appear to be that much things to do that we enjoy, but all will be revealed tomorrow J