Today was the day that we (well, Keeley) had been looking forward to for quite some time. We made our way to Tropical Island, the largest indoor water park in the whole world. Located about 60km SW of Berlin, the place is gigantic – inside an old aircraft hangar, you drive past all these old military bunkers to get to it. It is a very professional arrangement, where you get a wristband as you enter and pay for each thing as you use it. There is a rainforest, a big 'beach', a 'lagoon' pool with fountains and spas and a current pool that spins everybody around. Another section of the park is devoted to saunas and relaxing – naturally we ignored this bit. There are a couple of restaurants, cocktail bars, fast food places, a stage, a 4000 sq m kiddie land (only maybe a sixth of the park) and best of all three big waterslides. We spent most of our time on the slides and in the lagoon. The highest slide was an exhilarating seven seconds of pure speed, then there was a very slow twisty slide, and the most fun one was the slide that you rode down on rubber tyres. There seemed to be no rules to the tyre slide – some people were going down in trains of five, others without a tyre at all. We went solo (you often twisted around so you couldn't see where you were going), in a train (our combined weight made us go quite fast) and both on the same tyre (even faster – we flipped off towards the end of the day). It was great fun. The way the park is designed makes it really attractive to families, and although it was Wednesday there were lots of people around. You can even stay at the park overnight in tents – it is open 24hrs. A few people looked like they weren't going to pay for the tents and had set up sleeping bags on the benches at the 'beach'.
By the time we got back to Berlin we were tired from swimming all day (and climbing the steps to the slides – preseason training =) ). We made some epic nachos for dinner, had a long chat with some Aussie girls we'd met, and finished with some fantastic celebration crepes to congratulate me for my appointment to U18s Nationals (Keeley felt it was important to include this). Tomorrow we have to go around and see all the sights of Berlin we've missed so far, even though we may freeze to death in the process…
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2 comments:
Congrats with the appointment to the U18's nationals, despite the obvious impairement of not being under 18 or being in Australia at the time. (I assume you're refering to the 18 Hockey Nationals in Australia, otherwise i have no idea what you're talking about...)
Pat^
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