Saturday, August 29, 2009

Typhoon Lagoon Water Park--Swimming with the sharks!!

Arriving at typhoon Lagoon--my first time here!!!
Off to the Shark reef tank!!!
I'm scared to death to swim in a nice warm(pools in Az are warm) shallow pool, so when I found out this tank was over 10 feet deep and COLD, I was beginning to think "what the heck am I'm doing"???The water was around 65 degrees!!! Freezing in my book!!!
Here I am thinking " you want me to put my face in this ice water", no that's ok!!!!
I made the girls promise to not leave me behind!!! Remember there are Sharks in this tank!!!
Yeah, I made it to the island for a quick sigh of relief!! I heard Stacie's friend scream out "Did you see that 6 foot shark"??? I said NO WAY!!!!
I only snorkeled twice, meaning looking down under the water, the rest of the time I was looking straight ahead pretending I was NOT in a Tank of sharks and sting rays!!!Then I heard the life guard up on deck yell out " Lady with the head above the water who's not swimming, you have to swim across the tank", I was so embarrased!!!!I heard a family in line telling a story how earlier in the day a little girl was kicking her feet(you are not allowed to kick) and a shark bit her in the foot, she had swim shoes on luckily but the life guard whacked the shark with his floatie!!! So I was taking no chances on kicking!!!I just hung on to Stacie's feet!!
A view of us under the water, taken by Stacie's friend Melvin who had a sick stomach and skipped this adventure!!!
At least the girls stayed very close to me!!!
A sting Ray!!!
lots of sting rays!!!
We are done!!! Can you believe I did this twice, I thought maybe I would like it more the second time, NOPE, I did not!!!!
Back in the warm wave pool!!!!!
Typhoon Lagoon is so fun, so many great water slides, one is done family style and one is like a water roller coaster!!!!The lazy river is almost 1 mile!!!!
The Board Room is a neat place to get food and drinks!!!!!A very fun day!!!!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Girlllll....I would have "faked" a sick stomach to stay out of that...LOL!
I've always wanted to visit a wave pool though!

Anonymous said...

Now that is truly up my alley. I have a post coming of swimming with the dolphins and I got a kiss too.
QMM

~Kristen~ said...

I worked for the Mouse for 6 months on an internship and never got the chance to do the shark swim but always wanted to. But I'm a big wuss at heart so I probably would have done the same thing as you. You're next adventure should be to go out to the West Coast of Florida where they have a dolphin bay and you can swim with them. It was the coolest thing ... and the water is warmer than 65 degrees, lol.

Corie said...

SO fun, a little scarier than our "swim with the dolphins" adventure, huh?:) How cool though! Maybe we will go to a disney waterpark in a few weeks when we are there..sounds fun!! Where are the Chicago pics?

Deanna said...

OH MY GOODNESS...OH MY GOODNESS.
Did I say OMG???
You are VERY BRAVE. Very, very very brave.

The warm wave pool is more my speed! I could stay there all day, but not with the sharks.

I couldn't swim amongst the sharks. No way no how.

Let me catch me breath,
d

Jule's Spot said...

Swimming with the sharks is on my bucket list...you are doing it again with me!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Swimming with sharks?!! Totally nuts, but so cool too :)

Leslie said...

You are a brave woman! When we went to Typhoon Lagoon my hubs and I talked about doing that. But that's all we did, just talked about it!!!