Fun In The Water

June 3, Wednesday 2009 DAY 5

We woke at 6:45 this morning to the piercing sound of the gas alarm. If you have ever heard your fire alarm go off, you can compare the two, except for the fact that the gas alarm is ten times more loud.....and shrill. At first I thought it was the inverter. It tends to do that sometimes if you let it get below a certain number of watts. But this was WAY worse than any sound the inverter has dared make.
Needless to say, it didn't take long for us all to get up, if grudgingly. We couldn't smell gas anywhere though and didn't know how to stop the noise either. When it finally did stop, we went inside our friends' house where me, Jaeden and my mom where able to have showers and where everyone had breakfast. Soon we will be at West Edmonton Mall!

West Edmonton mall is huge! It seems as if there is every store on Vancouver Island packed into this mall.... and more! I truly wouldn't mind if they moved the whole thing to Victoria.
Since our gas detector is broken and our inverter that we plug our electronics into won't charge and a couple of other things, dad dropped us off at West Ed Mall and brought it somewhere to get fixed.
While we were waiting for Dad, we checked into the hotel that's in W.E.M and got our tickets that we could use for any of the attractions. It took a while for us to find the place though 'cause mom kept getting lost, and we had to ask a couple people where to go. While we were on our way to pick up the tickets, this lady calls out to mom. Before she, or any of us knew it she was sitting in a chair with someone trying to sell her a straightening iron and showing her how great it was by using it on mom's hair!
After eating, we met up with dad and went to the water park. It was so fun! After going on all the slides that were open, I decided that “Blue Bullet” was the best one of them all. The whole thing was a tube, one was so dark, you could have been blind and there wouldn't have been a difference and the other had thinner walls so that it was light the whole way down. I don't know if I was allowed or not, but I just crouch in a sort of ball so that I spun around as I went down. It made the slide seem even more fun!
The wave pool was amazing. It was set up like a beach so that when the horn sounded and the waves went on, it actually seemed like you were on a beach in Hawaii! The air was even heated in that area! All that could have been added was real sand.
At four thirty more slides opened up. The corkscrew, a tube slide wide enough for you to take a tube down. Sky Screamer, My new favorite, an extremely steep slide that is easier to go on if you don't look down. And Tropical Typhoon, My next favorite, a funnel slide that eventually dropped you into a deep pool.

It's true what everyone says about being wiped after going to the water park. After dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory (and me nearly forgetting my purse there) we trudged up to our rooms. They were so cool! It was a western theme so the outside of the doors looked like horses in their stalls, and inside the wood was made to look like a log cabin. The bunk beds had a sign over them saying “County Jail” and bars were put up by the top bunk. There was also this huge Jacuzzi tub. The beds are a lot softer than the ones in the motorhome. This will be a comfy night!