We arrived a few minutes before they opened at 10. We got in line to purchase our tickets. I saved a few dollars by buying the season pass and using the 3 guest passes that came with it for the girls and then JP was only $10 more (you have to buy some kind of diaper cover thing if they are 2 and under and it's a one time purchase if we go again he'll get in for free). I will say the line to get bags checked was SO slow and so I definitely recommend either arriving a little before 10 to get towards the front of the line or arriving once the first wave of people have gone in. Also they are super strict on the no outside food or drinks rule. Your water bottle has to be sealed (or you can bring in empty bottles and fill them up at the water fountain) and the only other thing they will allow you to bring in is baby food.
Once we made it through the bag check line we headed to rent a locker. If you have a season pass you get a dollar off locker rentals. The locker rental was all computer automated...you put in your card and created a passcode for your locker and then it tells you what locker you have. I actually ended up putting Ruthie's EpiPen in the locker, along with my keys, wallet, and phone,bc I didn't want to leave it sitting out with our towels and I obviously couldn't take it on rides with us. The lockers were in an easy to get to location so that seemed like the best thing to do with it.
Next we headed to the splash pad area and grabbed a table to leave our water bottles and towels. The kids were thrilled to explore the splash pad area. JP loved all the little fountains and sprayers and he and Ruthie both loved the small slide! Next we headed over to the lazy river! The lazy river is always my favorite water park feature! It took a little bit of juggling to figure out how to manage a float that had Ruthie, JP, and myself in it but we got it figured out and had a blast! (On a side note they have life jackets and puddle jumpers that you can use while you're there so I put one on JP while we were in the lazy river.)
After a spin through the lazy river Emmie and Ellie wanted to try out a slide. Ellie ended up being too short to go down the slide she wanted to ride on and the slide she could go down she didn't want to ride. (Being just under 48in is probably the worst time to go to Neptune Islands. Ellie was big enough to want to go down the tube slides but too short to go down them. She should be tall enough next summer though!) Emmie loved the slide she chose to go down. Then she did a slide where you go down on your stomach on a mat and she was NOT a fan! We all headed back to the Lazy River afterwards. After that we met up with Danielle, Ainsley, and Anna (and Ainsley's big brother and his friend) and Danielle took the Emmie, Ainsley, and Anna to ride more slides and I hung with the little kids at the splash pad.
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| Many thanks to Danielle for getting pretty much all the pictures! |
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| Anna, Ainsley, Emmie...sweet (silly) friends! |
After some playtime we all headed out to eat lunch. You can't bring food into the park but they have a really nice, shady picnic area just outside of the entrance with a small playground and they just stamp your hand when you leave so you can get back in.
After lunch we hit up the splash pad again and then I took the oldest girls to do slides while Danielle watched the little ones. (Apparently she was lots of fun...JP talked about "Ms Danielle" the rest of the day!) I did the slide with the mats and one of the tube slides. Emmie stuck to the tube slides, and Anna and Ainsley did all the slides...including the big tall one that had a straight drop down! After that we headed back to splash pad area and collected everyone else to go lay around some more on the Lazy River.
We were getting ready to get a treat and then leave after a few rounds on the Lazy River and Emmie decided that maybe she did want to try the big blue slide. Neither one of the other big girls wanted to do it again so Emmie, who is scared of EVERYTHING, decided she would do it herself! I grabbed treats for the my other kids and then we sat at the bottom of the slide and waited for Emmie. I was SURE she would be walking back down the stairs before long telling me she decided she didn't want to do it. But no. This girl is braver than we (or she) thinks! She slid down the slide...jaw clenched and terrified but she did it! Poor thing was shaking when she got off! She didn't want to do it again anytime soon but said maybe when she was older she would try it again! I was SO proud of her for being brave! I told her later that I thought maybe she would decided not to do it and she said she thought about coming back down but she really wanted to see what the slide was like!
We got Emmie her treat, changed our clothes, and headed out about 4:30. We all had a great time!
PS. They also have a wave pool but there was an issue with the filtration system so it wasn't open today. Ellie was super sad about that.
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| Danielle and I survived the waterpark with 6 kids under 8 and 2 teenagers! |
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