Only in Williamsburg, Virginia will you find a 1950’s themed water park adjacent to the dreaded black forest or out on the highway and down the road aways. Either way Water Country USA is the sister park to Busch Gardens Williamsburg and included in our membership. It is also a place we haven’t made it to this summer, but now that summer is over and it is a holiday weekend that is where we are heading.
Today is going to be about patience, patience, and patience. Perhaps through in some tolerance, grace, and understanding to complete the recipe to make it through today. I expect the park to be crowded, crowded, crowded. I want to get an earlier start than normal, and make it there early enough to claim a lounge chair near the Hubba Hubba Highway. Other than that and kids areas I don’t expect we’re going to do much today.
So far in our visits to Water Country the kids haven’t been brave enough for the big water slides. Even the ones that are more mild. We’ve failed wildly at swim lessons and none of them like getting water in the face. None of them have grown braver with rides as they have gotten older and all follow their mom’s lead of not wanting to get on them.
However I am more than fine with all of this. While I might enjoy a water slide now and then I do not enjoy 45 minute to hour long waits when there is a perfectly good lazy river to be coasting around. That is what I like to do at Water Country. Get in the Hubba Hubba Highway and not get out until I’ve turned into a wrinkly prune. There is just something fun about floating around a lazy river for hours on end.
So when Windsor demanded to go to the park with the Hubba Hubba Highway over the local water park I agreed. Because we’ve already paid for Water Country and it has the Hubba Hubba Highway. The lazy river at Ocean Breeze isn’t bad, but it also isn’t as safe for children. And did I mention we’ve already paid to go to Water Country, and this way I won’t have to try and decipher what the 57 tiers of pricing mean for Ocean Breeze.
Today will be fun, I will keep my cool with my own family and others, and be grateful for the time together.
David Huzzard Writes 