Day 505 { Jamaica 11 - Kool Runnings Waterpark, Negril }Thursday, August 6, 2009

Day 505 { Jamaica 11 - Kool Runnings Water park, Negril }

Today is Jamaica's independence day.... We are now 47 years old...

My friend told me yesterday that she wanted to go to the Kool Runnings water park in Negril, which is about 4 hours from where I live by car. She said, 4 other persons would be coming along as well... I always wanted to go to this park because the website looks so cool... 

So my friend came for me in the morning and we drove on the south coast towards Negril.. We stopped in St. Elizabeth to pick up our friend as well as her brother and her sister. We stopped at gas station to get some stuff the when we got to Negril, there was traffic... And because my friend was driving for so long, she was a bit tired... So I drove the remaining portion of the journey to the water park.... When we got there they told us that we cannot wear cotton in the water... We were like "WHAT!!!" .... I was fortunate though that my shorts was polyester. Everybody else was wearing some sort of cotton..... We were all a bit upset because we drove all this way only to hear this and they didn't relay this information over the phone....

Coincidentally, there is a store inside the water park that sells polyester clothes... hmmmmm ... too interesting...Anyway, when we were ready to go on the slides, the clouds started to get dark, followed by lightning and thunder.... Soooo the lifeguards stopped us from going on the slides.

Eventually, they gave us the go-ahead and we went on ....
When I got in the tube and go in the enclosed piped, water slide, I was scared beyond what I can ever recall....going through this dark tunnel-like thing and holding on for dear life on the tube..... But as soon as I was out, I was like "WOOW that was fun!!" .... I then went on a simpler one but its not in a tunnel... I was going to go on this horrific red one that everybody was talking about, but I made the mistake and went on another tunnel-like slide, without a tube, and I was horrified... So I totally changed my mind from the red one.....So all I did was sail around on the tube in the water for a while... Then it was time for us to go...

While we were going, we stopped to get some jerk chicken on the road... The road was filled with people going to a famous party in Jamaica known as A.T.I. (Appleton Temptation Isle / Absolute Temptation Isle)... This is a huge party on the beach side in Jamaica.

After going through this thick crowd, we then went from Negril to St. Elizabeth to drop off  my friend and her siblings, then got dropped home.... And it was quite an exciting day.... Just that the journey to Negril is just too long...