Jungle Rapids in Wilmington

This past Saturday, we joined Sharon at Jungle Rapids. I believe that this is the 3rd or 4th time that we have went. Sharon's husband, Carl, works for this company that gets tickets for all the employees and their families, so every summer we go. The weather was wonderful on Saturday. It was just perfect to spend the day out in the sun. We all had a good time. It was great to watch the kids enjoy it too. They have a kiddie section which we spent a lot of time in but they also have a lazy river and I think about 5 slides. The kids rode the lazy river with us. Jonas didn't really like it. He enjoys water that he can walk and run and roll in. Maddie rode all a lot of the slides with Jason in a double raft(tube). I hate to say it but I didn't get a lot of pictures. It's hard to keep a camera with you when you are surrounded by water. Plus I missed some of it b/c I stayed with Jonas while he was napping.


I've gotten a little ahead of myself here so I'll kinda fill you in...when we first got there we let the kids play in the kiddie area. There were 2 slides there in that area and Maddie went down one and got a face full of water which totally freaked her out and she at that point had written off water slides. But Jason was pushing her to try the other slides. Besides the two water slides, there were 2 others that were part of like a play area thing, like something at a McDonald's but you would land in the pool. Maddie would not do it. She had climbed up into the play set but wouldn't go down the slide, she just sat there and cried. So after some coaxing, she finally just climbed back down and we headed to the lunch area. During lunch, Jason took it upon himself to tell Maddie that if she didn't go down one of the other slides that she wouldn't be able to do anything else and that she'd have to sit and watch the rest of the day. I thought this was HORRIBLE!!! I told him that he was being ridiculous and that she was only 3, cut her some slack but of course he chose to keep it going. At one point Maddie had said that she would just sit in the stroller and watch instead of doing anything. Hearing her say that just broke my heart!! But after we finished lunch and we headed back to the kiddie section, she finally warmed up to the idea, she wasn't happy about it but she did it.

So now that she did that, she was able to do other things with us. This is when we went on the lazy river and after one time around Jonas was ill. I went to put Jonas to sleep and Jason, Sharon and Maddie went to the big slides. The three of them rode this one slide that is like a toilet bowl. You go down a small tunnel and then you go around and around a toilet bowl like thing until you slow down enough to get sucked down the "drain". It's really fun and Maddie liked it. There was another one that Maddie rode but it's just a regular winding slide. I think she liked those better b/c she was on a raft which kept her up out of the water so there wasn't a lot of water in her face unlike the kiddie ones. There was another slide that Jason rode. I have rode it once before and that was enough for me. It scared the POOP out of me and I don't think I'll ever ride it again. It's shaped like a U and when you start off you are going straight down and I don't even think that your raft even touches the slide. Then you get to the bottom of the U and then your momentum forces you up the other side of the U and makes you feel like you are going to fly off the edge. Yeah that's just too scary for me but here's a picture of Jason on it.

So Jason and Sharon took Maddie on those two slides that she went on while I stayed with Jonas and then Sharon came and traded spots with me. So after I had my turn on the slides with Maddie and Jason, we headed back to the kiddie area.
We let the kids play for a little bit longer and then we went to ride the go-carts that they have there. We were able to let Maddie and Jonas ride too. While we were standing in line, it took all we had to keep Jonas back. He wanted those cars so bad. Then when the actual time came to ride, he cried the whole time. He was scared. I guess he was afraid of the noise. I hadn't even thought about it until now but he's scared of the vacuum b/c of the noise so yeah I guess he'd be scared of the loud noise from the cars. Luckily I had Maddie in my car who LOVED it. She actually thought that she was driving at least until the second lap and she says, "Mommy, My thing isn't working. I can't turn this!" I thought that was funny b/c she really was trying to turn it. She was really trying to drive.
Well that pretty much sums up our day there. After the water park we had dinner and drove home. The kids were knocked out in the car. It was a long day but a ton of fun!!! Thanks for everything Sharon!!! We LOVE You!!!