Waterpark

Today we visited Merry Water World. It's an indoor water park about 30 minutes from our house. It was clean but very Chinese in style. You enter the building and they send boys to the right and girls to the left. You get a wristband with a code thing on it. It opens your locker and then it keeps track of any extras you purchase. Each ride on a boat or entry in to certain sections, cost 10 rmb or more. They insist that each person wear a bathing cap but we avoided them. You have to change your shoes into slip ons they provide, but when you leave them by the side of the pools, other people take them and then you have to search for others to put on b/c it is against the rules to walk around without them. They provide a towel slightly larger than a washcloth to each person over 1.2 meters tall. So, we got two towels for Jack, Jed, Huck and me.

You have to pay when you leave. They take your coded wristband and check the total. Then you walk over to another place to pay, then you take the wristband back to the exit, where they check that you paid and then you can leave.

Jack and Jed had a good time but Huck had a rough time due to a cut on the bottom of his foot from stepping on a toy this morning. So, we didn't stay too long. We went home, Huck stayed with the Ayi, and Jack, Jed and I went to the pool here in our compound where we had a great time catching up with friends.