DAY 13 : July 19/22 Silverwood Idaho day 2
We managed to follow our plan and get up and ready for the waterpark in order to walk over to the gates by 10:30am to avoid the same delays we had yesterday. Sailed through the bag check and the short ticket line. With the two day pass, they take your digital photo on the first day of entry to verify it’s you using the second day pass. When we got to the ticket check, the lady laughed out loud when she saw Jonathan’s photo pop up. He had made a BIG goofy smiley face for his photo. Fun start to a fun day.
Joined the line up to enter Boulder Beach, and it was only 15min till they opened the flood gates at 11am and let everyone in. Two rows of smiley lifeguards made a gauntlet for guests to hi-five their way into the water park. They sure have everything dialled for a good time at Silverwood, I tell ya.
Lucked upon a shady cabana with a picnic table and lounge chair by one of the two massive wave pools. Got set up and hit the park. Ollie wanted to go in the wave pools first, so Meems and I took off for the lazy river. While Jonathan and Ollie enjoyed both wave pools and Jonathan did the steep slide, Amelia and I lapped the lazy river, then hit the small kids splash/slide/climbing park (Amelia trying to avoid the HUGE bucket dump the whole time), and then did the racer slides (on foamy mats, very fun) and headed over and did two tube rides - also super fun!!
Back to the gear to have a snack, we found Ollie and Jonathan relaxing. We went off together as a family and joined the now much busier lazy river then over to the racing slides. Jonathan beat my 10.38 second time by mere fractions of a second. Ollie wasn’t super sure, but we convinced him to go on the double-tube slides with us. Meems and I were excited to try the two fully blacked out tunnel slides this time. We went twice… once with O/Mama & A/Daddy combo, then again swapping kids. We decided #3 tunnel slide was our favourite.
Jonathan had noticed there was a huge raft ride way at the other end of the park and we decided to head on over and check it out. A bit deceiving line up… as you couldn’t tell where it ended. We did wait quite a long time, but we had nice chats with the two women behind us in line, and studied the many tattoos of the teens in front of us. Ollie wasn’t 100% keen on the idea as he had a bad experience on a tube ride before. Ricochet Rapids proved to be exciting and fun. It was a large 6 person more solidly inflated raft with a bottom, and handles. An awesome end to the water park day.
Packed up the kite bag (massive backpack for all our stuff) at 4pm and walked back to our RV for some delicious fish (trout) tacos and fresh cut salsa by Amelia. Then got sunscreen and ready to hit the amusement park to find a couple rides that we had missed yesterday.
6:30pm we were walking back over to the park and went on the Krazy Coaster, the Butterfly and then wandered a bit. Amelia built up enough courage to agree to try a big roller coaster and we we headed for the Timber Terror… an old wooden roller coaster. This was Amelia’s first real-deal roller coaster! She was nervous but very brave. She rode beside daddy and Ollie and I sat behind them. I screamed a good amount for the first few drops and curves. Ollie did extremely well, shouting “it’s not scary!” At me and laughing. He remembers the Tremors coaster he did almost 3 years ago at our last visit. We had a blast and picked up a “Timber Terror” bumpersticker for the rig as a memento. Amelia spent some of her special spending money on a sparkly owl necklace she had been looking at earlier in the day, and Ollie bought himself a cinnamon bun. We left the gift shop around 9:30pm after a fantastic day. Bed by 10:30pm.
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