Vinpearl water slide park

Holy waterslides batman!

This place was a lot of fun.  We could see the island from our part of the beach and we knew they had waterslides there.  There's something about the lure of waterslides and carnival rides that we all found pretty much irresistible.

We started off on the first ride, which could be aptly named "The Eyeball Popper" or "The Brain Aneurysm" or "The Big Forehead Vein Buster".  It was kinda bad.  We were mounted facing outwards on a big ring, and that ring would rotate upwards and even upside down.  It was actually fun when we were perpendicular to the ground but the operator left us hanging upside down for a long time.  I had so much blood in my head it hurt my eyeballs, and it hurt even more to laugh!  I am clearly not destined to be a fighter pilot.

Leah didn't even go on that one because her stomach wouldn't handle it.  But a weird thing happened.  Because I had applied sunscreen I had taken off my travel ring (a steel substitute for the real wedding ring)

We went on a tiny roller-coaster, which was okay.  But then we found the Alpine Bob Coaster which was totally awesome.  You're in a 1 person (or 1 big person 1 little person) car, and you can control the brakes as you fly downhill.  It was totally wild because after I realized that the cars can't fly off the rails I went pretty fast. Even Leah went on this one, because being able to control the speed she was able to keep from barfing.

After a tiny lunch we wanted to go on the water slides but we were totally heat exhausted so we went into the aquarium to see the fish, and hang out in the air conditioning.

Finally the fun stuff began! Our first water slide could be called the Nasal Hydration Device, we laid on our stomach on top of a toboggan-like foam mat down a slide with six tracks in parallel.

The second slide we went down on our backs, but the spray from my heels totally covered me and went into my eyes. Fun?

The third slide was called the Tsunami (its actual name) and we rode in a tube down a slope, down and up and down and up. It was great fun, we did it again and again!

There was a ride that dumped us out into a huge bowl vortex. One was called the family slide, which meant that the tube could hold a family of six, but the ride was REALLY crazy, we were flipped up on the sides and everyone pretty much fell on top of each other. It was really fun!

We ate a nice dinner, rode the Alpine coaster again and caught the gondola back.