2003/01/22

Weeeeehaa! Court and I had such an amazing day today, we're so high off of it, it's so great. It's gonna be hard to beat today.

We got up about 9:00, had some breakfast, and whatever, and about noon, headed out to Sunway Lagoon, a water park built next to a mall/hotel/convention centre. The Let's Go book described it as a water park with water slides and wave pool and stuff. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were like little kids, and the place was virtually deserted of people!!

First, the whole mall and convention centre and hotel is decked out in an Egyptian-style architecture, and Court and I walked in and were quite amazed at the size of the place. We walked around for a while, taking pictures of the wave pools, water slides, the huge volcano in the middle. There's a really long (almost 500 metres) pedestrian suspension bridge (the longest in the world, they claim) crossing over top of the park, and we could see a roller coaster and a couple of other rides from the waterpark area. After taking a few pictures, we got changed, locked up our stuff and went to the water park. We had a blast. There was no lineups at all, and the water was refreshing. It was sooo much fun.

After that, we got dressed again, had a snack, and started walking around the rest of the park, walked across the suspension bridge, walked around the whole park, took the roller coaster, and a "Flying Carpet" ride, then started thinking about going. We had a total blast, and we had killed about 3.5 hours. Courtney was having so much fun, she was giggling like a little school girl all day!!!!!!!!!!!

We noticed an area that we hadn't seen before, and started walking around, and found a whole other part of the park that we didn't know anything about. They had a white-water rafting ride, an incredibly fun log ride, and another where you down down a water-slide in an inflatable two-person raft. It was hilarious. You should have seen us. We were SOAKED from head to toe from these water rides. Court's shorts were so wet, you could see her underwear right through them. She was pretty embarrased. I got a bunch of water inside my waterproof shoes. I wonder how long it'll take those to dry out. We had sooo much fun, everyone. You can't imagine how much fun it was. It's gonna be hard to outdo today.

To give you an idea of how much it cost us to "live" today, here's a breakdown.
Bus ride to park: 2MR (45 minute busride)
Entry to park: 39MR (includes access to ALL rides!)
Lunch at park: 8MR
Bus ride from park: 2MR

Here it is in CDN dollars (approx):
Bus ride to park: 75 cents (45 minute busride)
Entry to park: $15 (includes access to ALL rides!)
Lunch at park: $3
Bus ride from park: 75 cents
Grand total: less than $20 CDN for the TIME OF OUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is SOOOOOOOOOOOO cheap here, people! How much is a day at the pathetic Moose Jaw fair, with access to ALL rides as much and as often as you want? I haven't an idea, but I'm sure it's more than what we paid here. And the MJ Fair would be total pathetic compared to this. How much is a West Edmonton Mall excursion, for all the rides?

Anyway, my point is, it's SOOO cheap!!!! I LOVE it!!!!!!!!

We were going to head down to Melaka tomorrow, but we needed to get laundry done, and the laundry service in the hostel wouldn't be able to have our laundry to us until Friday morning, so right next door to the hostel is a small shop that sells bus tickets and laundry service. We gave it to them, and it should be ready tomorrow afternoon, so we'll stay another day in KL before heading to Melaka.

More pictures are presently being uploaded to my web site. Check out the time we had at the water park today! Some really great pictures there.

Until later.