Waterbom

Hey everyone,

Last night I read for a bit and by 9pm I was so tired I could hardly keep my eyes open. I went to sleep about 9.20pm and only woke when my alarm sounded at 7.45am. I must have been very tired! I reckon I could have kept on sleeping too. 

I went and had some breakfast (banana pancake - delicious!) and then set off on the 20 minute walk to Waterbom, a waterpark here that claims to be #1 in Asia and #2 in the world. Every person I know that's been to Bali told me I had to come here! 

I can see why - I had so much fun! I arrived at 9am when the park opened to avoid queues. I was so glad I did this as for the first two hours I didn't have to queue at all. Something hilarious happened at the first ride, the man came running up to me "excuse me miss! You can only ride this if more than 45kg!" I laughed and told him he flattered me but that I weighed a bit over 45kg so I would be OK!!

The next five hours were spent going on lots of rides. Ones where the floor dropped out and you went straight down, twisty ones, racing ones using mats and more. My favourite were the smash down (the floor drop one), the twin racers (very steep and fast due to the mat) and the boomerang, which had a huge drop and propelled you up a nearly vertical wall. 

I reckon overall I probably had 40 slides! At 11am the queues started to form and most rides had a 15-20 minute wait. The only problem I ran into other than this was that one ride had to be 2-4 people. I befriended a family of three from Manchester and I went with them! The staff were super friendly but kept asking me "where your friends?" "where your partner?" and were very surprised when I said was by myself. The Boomerang worked lots better with two people as well, so that time I approached a family from Melbourne and went on with their daughter. 

Even though signs everywhere said no outside food or drink I somehow got in with mine, so all I had to buy was an ice cream which was delicious. The lockers they had there were awesome so I just kept going to and from that in between the slides and making sure I drank lots of water. 

Apart from the slides there was also a pool, a kids play area and a lazy river ride that had a current that slowly took you all around the park. I think all up I probably did about five laps of that! It was very relaxing. 

Towards the end of the day I went on my favourite few rides for the last time. When queueing for the twin racers a very scared 9 year old girl from Perth was with her brother and sister. She reminded me of me as a kid, pretty much in tears saying she didn't want to go on. I joined in with her siblings and told her every lie under the sun to get her onto that ride ("no, it's not steep at all", "I've been on it six times and it's really slow"). After promising her a high five at the bottom I waited with her brother. After a very long minute (during which I can imagine the guy at the top trying to convince her to go on while she freaked out!) down she came. She got her promised high five and then said "YOU ALL LIED - it was fast! ....can we go on again?" Cured!

I left the park at about 2.30 because the queues were even longer by this point and my glutes and shoulder blades were pretty sore by this point. I walked back and enjoyed walking through the chilled out laneways on the way back to the hotel. They are a stark contrast to the "hello miss! Transport? Taxi?" and crazy motorbike traffic of the more major roads. 

Claire and Reyann have just arrived at our hotel. I think soon we are going to head out and see the Bali Bombings memorial and then grab some dinner. Tonight is my last night here and I will post tomorrow at some point before I head home. 

Love to all

Claire

Xoxox

PS: Ryan uploaded some group shots so I've included them in today's post too!