Lazy Afternoon, Dinner, Lazy Evening
May. 16th, 2024 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerPhoenix Weekend Travelog #4
Back at the hotel - Fri, 10 May 2024, 9pm
Today we've continued the theme of "lazy river, lazy life". After a morning swim, lunch and a bit of mid-afternoon food coma we headed back out to the waterpark. We were able to grab the same lounge chairs as in the morning. ...No, we didn't leave them reserved all day; we're not that kind of pool-goers. It's just that today the waterpark is not super crowded, though it was busier this afternoon around 2-3pm than it was in the morning. Weekend guests are arriving.
This afternoon I rode the water slide a few times in addition to looping the lazy river and bobbing in the wave pool. I rode the lower, really twisty slide in the photo above. It's got a drop of about 40'. The two taller slides have a drop of probably about 70' and are fast. I rode them a few times last year.
I'm sticking with the lower-height slide this year because it offers a better bang-for-the-buck proposition. With those tall slides being so fast, the ride is over in 2 seconds. And that's after climbing stairs equal to a 7 story building. It's over too fast compared to all the effort to get there!
We took another break from the waterpark at 5pm to towel off and change for dinner. Hawk and her parents looked up one of their relatives who lives in town, and this evening we met her for dinner at a local Mexican restaurant with a very loud mariachi band. . I... have thoughts... about this cousin-by-marriage of mine. I'll write about that in a separate entry.
Back at the hotel after dinner we're all too tired to go back out to the pool. The waterpark is closed, anyway, but there are regular-sized swimming pools and hot tubs in the courtyard of each building in this hotel complex that are open until 10. Yeah, the swimming and sun and heat earlier today have us all tired out. Plus, I've been getting up at 6 all week. Oh, and the humongous margarita I had with dinner— it was 2x what I expected for the price— isn't helping with my energy level.
Back at the hotel - Fri, 10 May 2024, 9pm
Today we've continued the theme of "lazy river, lazy life". After a morning swim, lunch and a bit of mid-afternoon food coma we headed back out to the waterpark. We were able to grab the same lounge chairs as in the morning. ...No, we didn't leave them reserved all day; we're not that kind of pool-goers. It's just that today the waterpark is not super crowded, though it was busier this afternoon around 2-3pm than it was in the morning. Weekend guests are arriving.
This afternoon I rode the water slide a few times in addition to looping the lazy river and bobbing in the wave pool. I rode the lower, really twisty slide in the photo above. It's got a drop of about 40'. The two taller slides have a drop of probably about 70' and are fast. I rode them a few times last year.
I'm sticking with the lower-height slide this year because it offers a better bang-for-the-buck proposition. With those tall slides being so fast, the ride is over in 2 seconds. And that's after climbing stairs equal to a 7 story building. It's over too fast compared to all the effort to get there!
We took another break from the waterpark at 5pm to towel off and change for dinner. Hawk and her parents looked up one of their relatives who lives in town, and this evening we met her for dinner at a local Mexican restaurant with a very loud mariachi band. . I... have thoughts... about this cousin-by-marriage of mine. I'll write about that in a separate entry.
Back at the hotel after dinner we're all too tired to go back out to the pool. The waterpark is closed, anyway, but there are regular-sized swimming pools and hot tubs in the courtyard of each building in this hotel complex that are open until 10. Yeah, the swimming and sun and heat earlier today have us all tired out. Plus, I've been getting up at 6 all week. Oh, and the humongous margarita I had with dinner— it was 2x what I expected for the price— isn't helping with my energy level.
