A water park surprise!

A Certifikid deal came out a few months ago.  Admission for 4 to one of five local water parks, all for $10.  Such a great deal!  Immediately, emails started going back and forth between some of us deciding which water park we wanted to go to and what day would work for all of our schedules.  The coupon specified we could only use it on weekdays, starting at 3:00pm.  We decided to go last Thursday to Pirates Cove Water park in Lorton.

We arrived right at 3:00pm and upon entry was handed 3 tickets.  I asked the guy what it was for and he said, "Starting at 5:00pm, the ticket will get us a hot dog, soda, chips and ice cream."  Wow!  Apparently we picked "Family Fun Night" as our day to go.  This occurs each week, every Thursday through the summer.  Who knew?  What a great surprise and this made the Certifiked deal even sweeter!  Dinner was now taken care of.  In addition, the family fun night included music being played and various games for the kids to play in.  Sam even participated in the air guitar contest. 

I think I was expecting a little more to the water park.  There was one big main structure in the middle of the pool for the kids to play on, with slides and things to climb on.  And there was an infant wading pool with another little slide.  The boys had a blast and didn't stop playing for a second.  Sam was tall enough to stand in the main pool, but I was still nervous about her ability to stay upright in water that went up to her shoulders and held her hand or kept her in sight the whole time. 

We had a great afternoon and after 3.5 hours, I was ready to pack up my kids and head home.  They would've been very happy being there until close (at 7:00pm), but its always better, in my experience, to leave with them wanting more.

While we don't have it on the calendar to go back again this summer, I will definitely go back next year.