We took the kids to Babylon Water Park in Liberec yesterday. That is, our two plus their cousin Patrick. Patrick is 3 and totally fearless. Both Sam and Isabel frequently do things that scare me, climbing up to places they shouldn’t and whatnot, but compared to little Patrick, they are downright timid.
First time on the slide, (not the kiddy slide, either) I went down together with Sam and Patrick, Helen went down with Isabel. Patrick raced right around to do it again and didn’t even wait to see if I was waiting for him at the bottom. I was, but he didn’t seem to care. Anyway, things got pretty frantic after 3 kids a few times, with two adults trying to look after 3 kids who all wanted to do different things. I don’t know how my parents managed it – we were 7.
It was a pretty nice water park. A wave cave, a circular current, a rope stretched across it (I never did get to try that), a waterfall, a jacuzzi, a sauna and a steam room that was cranked up so high I couldn’t make out the faces of the other people in there and of course a snack bar with a kiddie pool next to it where we spent way too much time.
The ads for these places show nothing but people with beautiful young bodies, but that was so f ar from being the case that it was depressing. I’m a bit on the chubby side myself but good grief, there were some lard asses there. One lady who looked like she could have worked at a circus was right next to us at the snack bar. She had that lower back tattoo that on a girl half her age and a third her weight is considered sexy. Very unappetizing.
Still, homely and unfit people deserve to enjoy the water park, too (although when I saw the announcement that Wednesdays were nude swimming evening, I didn’t like the mental image). There was only one man there who I thought really should have been ashamed to show his body in public.
That was the guy with “White Power” tattooed between his shoulder blades.
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