Narrative Essay Example: Water Park

You could feel the humidity, smell the food, and hear screams of delight. My family and I were at a humongous water park with over 25 slides. It was so huge I couldn’t even see half of the park. This water park was a part of an even larger hotel. The hotel had over 20 floors, plus the only way to get to this park would be to walk through a see-through tunnel over 300 feet above the ground. If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I never would have thought it would be possible for a hotel to have a water park. The size of this water park was even larger than the largest water park I had previously known, Raging Waters.

We quickly found a spot to put down our towels and started riding all of the biggest slides. The giant slides were all different. One of them towered over all of the others. I stood in amazement as my eyes widened and I gaped in awe at a bowl shaped part of the slide, where you could spin around. I got in the long line and started waiting. Finally, it was my turn. I almost fell off of the ride and had to pull myself back up. The others were just fast and short, but they were fun. My brothers and I went on some of the giant slides a couple of times but they weren’t fast enough for me, plus the wait wasn’t worth it.

Then, I spotted a wave pool from the corner of my eye, so my brothers and I dashed over. A sign said that every 20 minutes, giant waves for 5 minutes. We made the best of the 3 minutes that remained. Twenty minutes later, we returned with blown up rafts. After swimming and having fun for a few minutes, we came up with a game. A person had to try and stay on the raft while the other two people would try to flip the raft over. You would have to move fast enough to to move from side to side and keep the raft balanced. After the large waves stopped for the next 20 minutes, we left the wave pool, and went to go on some slides.

We decided to go on some medium sized slides, not wanting to wait in any more huge lines. However, before we were about to decide to go back to our hotel room, we came to a slide called the Canada Plunge. It was a normal slide, other than the 80-degree drop down. Plus, the only way to go down it was headfirst on a small blown up raft. I zoomed down the ride, at least going 20 miles per hour. After the first time, I couldn’t stop. It was so fun! I was addicted. Whenever I was going down the slide, I could hear the wind howling, which made me forget about everything else. It was like skiing down a huge hill. I rode the slide at least 5 more times. I couldn't get enough. I wanted to keep going, but I remembered that the wave pool was about to start again. Knowing we could go down that slide later, we decided to go to the wave pool again. We returned to the Canada Plunge and rotated from one to the other for the next couple hours, occasionally riding some of the other slides. 

I was in the wave pool when I heard my parents say it’s time to go. I had assumed we were going to be able to stay the whole day, but apparently my parents had other plans. I was sad, but I remembered we would still have tomorrow. The next day we had even more things to do, such as going to Niagara Falls, and eating dinner at the rotating Skylon Tower, where we would enjoy our dinners 400 feet above the Niagara Falls, while enjoying a gorgeous 360 degree view. Sadly, I was never able to go back to that water park and ride the Canada Plunge again.