Today we made a visit to the amusement park called Wonder-La. It is a nice park with one half traditional rides and the other half a water park. Lokesh had said that Caden should go there, so with Sarah in tow, we made the 2-hour trip out. After the first hour we started the "are we there yet?" and somehow the trip to Far Far Away started to feel a little ominous.
Once in the park we tried to go on our first ride, the log shoot, from which we were shooed away because Caden is not yet 140 cm tall. Okay, so there is always the Carousel, which we were able to ride (I had to convince the attendant that it was okay for me to stand next to Caden while on the ride). We tried a couple more rides, but although Caden could go on them, I was not allowed to join him. Unfortunately, with the grabbing and pushing from the ride attendants, Caden became frightened and would not go on any of the rides by himself, which meant that he went on no more rides.
So we tried the water park. The first hint that this may not work out well came when Sarah walked from the locker rooms fully dressed. Almost all the other women in the park were also fully dressed, or attired in very long 1920's swimming attire. Think of taking fully dressed Indian women and dumping buckets of water on them and you will get the image.
As the larger pool looked a little too violent for Caden (people dropping from different slides and elevations), we went toward the Kids/Ladies pool. But as Sarah was wearing a two-piece (very inappropriate for being in public in India) and I did not have the right parts to be in the pool (remember: Ladies pool), Caden had to go by himself. So, since Caden was doomed to have to do everything himself and could not be accompanied by either Sarah or me. The two hour drive was only for an hour and a half venture at the park (most of the time seemed to be in getting tickets and changing in the locker room). We will have to try the park when Caden is more than 140 cm tall or has a friend with him that he can go on the rides with.
Once in the park we tried to go on our first ride, the log shoot, from which we were shooed away because Caden is not yet 140 cm tall. Okay, so there is always the Carousel, which we were able to ride (I had to convince the attendant that it was okay for me to stand next to Caden while on the ride). We tried a couple more rides, but although Caden could go on them, I was not allowed to join him. Unfortunately, with the grabbing and pushing from the ride attendants, Caden became frightened and would not go on any of the rides by himself, which meant that he went on no more rides.
So we tried the water park. The first hint that this may not work out well came when Sarah walked from the locker rooms fully dressed. Almost all the other women in the park were also fully dressed, or attired in very long 1920's swimming attire. Think of taking fully dressed Indian women and dumping buckets of water on them and you will get the image.
As the larger pool looked a little too violent for Caden (people dropping from different slides and elevations), we went toward the Kids/Ladies pool. But as Sarah was wearing a two-piece (very inappropriate for being in public in India) and I did not have the right parts to be in the pool (remember: Ladies pool), Caden had to go by himself. So, since Caden was doomed to have to do everything himself and could not be accompanied by either Sarah or me. The two hour drive was only for an hour and a half venture at the park (most of the time seemed to be in getting tickets and changing in the locker room). We will have to try the park when Caden is more than 140 cm tall or has a friend with him that he can go on the rides with.
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