Day 17: Disney's Typhoon Lagoon

I didn't even know what we were going to do today when I woke up, but after checking the weather Mum decided we should go to an extra Disney park - Typhoon Lagoon water park. Yes! I had been talking about how we should go to a water park in Disney for ages, and Mum finally came to her senses.

After getting there, paying our $250 (!) and getting changed we hit the water.

The park was great! It was set up like a tropical island resort that just had a typhoon go through it. The ship on top of a mountain was the first thing Zac and I noticed. Headed over there to find some single slides that reminded us of Magic Mountain, but they quickly got boring, so we tried out a "speed slide". These were much faster than we thought, and we both got off in pain, with our board shorts now turned into speedos! It was then that we agreed Mum and Dad would both have to do these slides.

Then we went looking for the rest of the gang for a family raft slide, and found out that they had just been floating around a creek like the one at Wet 'n Wild while we had done all of the other slides.

Although Lucy refused the first time (memories of being convinced to go on the Tower of Terror the other day) she did go on it later.  The family raft was excellent, with bumps in the slide and fake rocks in the slide rapids.

After a lunch of chicken wraps and nachos with plastic cheese, Zac and I headed to the wave pool to check out what Mum and Dad had called the Tsunami wave. And it was huge. This 6ft wave came every 1.5 mins, at it knocked people down like bowling pins. Including Dad!

Mum and Dad eventually got onto that speed slide. Mum now thinks that slide was the inventor of g-strings! Zac and I floated through the creek while this was happening, although Zac couldn't fit properly in a big tube, so he had to use a little kids' one. This was really funny because he could barely stay on the thing, and when he did it again later, Dad just kicked him straight off.

But the highlight was the Crush 'n Gusher, a fairly new place with three slides unlike any slides we had ever been on. It was definitely the first slide I had ever seen that went uphill, and shot the water that way too! These slides were so intense, you started on a conveyor belt! 

When Mum convinced Lucy to go on it with her, Mum's toe ended up in Lucy's mouth!! Everyone went on these at one time or another. Zac and I were the first, and got Dad to join us on a three-person. We listened to Dad yell on the way down, but that's better than a toey mouth!

I was amazed with how well Disney had set up their park, with everything looking like an authentic tropical island. They even had a whole mountain and waterfalls they had made. All of the slides went through waterfalls, caves and through old tropical fruit factories.

It was really a great day, and I'm so happy that we got to visit a water park. on our holiday!

Tom