Volcano Island

Today a good friend and I took our kids to Volcano Island. This was my family's second visit there.  We went with the same friends to Water Mine last summer.

I had a great time on these water slides today.

The sign said "you must be 48 inches tall" but one of the lifeguards told me that it just depends who is working at the top.  Lydia and Amelia aren't 48 inches tall but they both swim on the swim team.  The first guard didn't question them and just let them go down (maybe because I was with them).  Lydia said the second guard asked them how well they could swim.  I had to convince a third guard to let them go down (I just happened to be with them that time).  The guards probably aren't that strict because the water at the bottom isn't that deep and there is a guard right there in the water.

Wesley and Nathan had a great time trying to dunk each other.  They did the water slides a few times.

Lydia and Amelia tried it also.

Josiah spent a lot of time going down this little slide.  The water at the top was very cold, but the pool was warm.  It was very hot today; I think the heat index was over 100.

There he goes.

He got to practice his swimming every time he went down.  Kids can't do this slide with a life jacket on so I took it off and let him swim.

  It was just a short distance that he had to swim.

It was fun for me the first fifty times he did it.  I went down the slide a few times just to cool off.  I had to drag him away from the slide.

He got so tired that he started sucking his fingers while he waited for his turn.

There must have been water on my lens.