Last month, my father asked our family if we wanted to go to Wild Wild Wet as his company was giving out tickets for 30 dollars for a charity event. Each ticket consists of two entry tickets to wild wild wet, two meals provided by McDonalds and entrance to the charity event. Me and my brother immediately agreed as we never had been to Wild Wild Wet before and so our father bought two tickets.
Until when he mentioned it last saturday , I had forgotten all about it entirely. I quickly packed the necessary items into a bag and we set out for Downtown East. At Downtown East I noticed a pair of officers patrolling the area, I guess the incident on the hacking of the teenager is still on their minds. At the entrance to the wild wild wet, we were greeted by the organisers of the event, they gave us each a wristband which shows that you have gained entry and to a pair a card which we would understand its use later.
The event was held under two separate canopies at a corner of wild wild wet, what was happening there, is that they were organising game stations and for us to play and win prizes. The stations include mini-basketball, mini-soccer dart throwing, mini-golf , “blind boxing” and a few others. This is where the card which I mention earlier comes into us each card has a number of boxes and when we play a station the station master would chop on one of the empty boxes and when there are no more empty boxes it would mean we can’t play any more stations. My family decided to split into two groups my brother with my father and me with my mother as only one pair was assigned one card. I went to the “blind boxing” station first as it seemed to be the most interesting and looked easy. However it was not as easy as I thought and I only managed to get the second prize. Later, I progressed through all the games, and it was time for lunch. But then the sky became overcast and it started to pour, the games had to be stopped and we could not get to the sheltered buildings as the lifeguard prevented us from going as there was lighting and it was too far.
So we had to wait until the rain lessen and the lifeguards with umbrellas would guide us to the sheltered buildings. Once we reach there we immediately went to McDonalds to redeem the meals provided by McDonalds. All the “meal” contained was a packet of apples, a can of coke and a cold hamburger. But I should have forseened it as who would be so philanthropic to give such good food for free if they did that they would lose money.
After we finished our “lunch” we decided to go swimming although we had not completed our card as we did not feel like playing the same games again and also the prizes was the same thing. We first went to the “shiok river” which goes through the entire park and has a current which pushes you along, so you can sit on one of the tubes and drift around the park. Next we went to the “Tsunami” which was one of my favourite rides as you can enjoy the waves as you lie back in the tubes. In the next few rides that we took my mother did not come along with us as it was too scary for her. The next few rides which I took was the “Ular-Rah” which was a raft ride and two other slides. The last ride and most probably the scariest of them all was the “slide up” you have to sit on a raft and plunge down a four-storey ramp accelerating until you hit the deck and skimming across to soar on the opposite side, then the process repeats until there is no momentum.
After that we went on some different rides again, went tohave a change and took a cab back home.
Video of "slide up" in action
great description
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