It would be amiss not to show a picture of Poo Poo Head on his daily pilgrimage to the Ripley’s museum in Surfers Paradise. He doesnt like to go in, because he’s not 100% sure the robotic dummies arent real people.
Surfers Paradise has an ongoing music and art fringe festival in May and June. Last night there was a live band on the beach followed by fireworks. After wards we all partook in a Gourmet Muffin Cupcake, and Poo Poo Head seemed to enjoy his.
Steve had a characterture done by a footpath vendor after the fireworks
Today is supposed to be the last of the clear warm days before we leave, so we decided to attack White Water World at Dream World today. Wet and Wild theme park offers half price tickets to QLD resident and we spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how we could “appear” to be QLD residents.
The Dream World tourist brochure describes all sorts of things except opening time and ticket price. A quick log onto the internet just added to the confusion. There were 3 levels of tickets that we could get that would suit us and none of them made any sense. $85 for a one pass, $99 for a two pass, or $69 for a 2 month unlimited pass !!!!!! (no, this isnt a typo)
We all piled into the Fiesta and pointed it north.
A few weeks ago Ross cashed in some Credit Card reward points for “Mastercard Gift Cards” and has had some trouble getting rid of them. He managed to offload 3 at Dream World to a very patient cashier.
Poo Poo Head was so excited he began running around in circles in anticipation. He didnt know what to do first, but he needed to do it fast. When we finally got to the kids area in the water park, Poo Poo Head wanted to try the next area before he had even got wet in the first.
Poo Poo Head was a little hesitant in the beginning after he witnessed the torrential flooding of the play area by a giant toppling bucket. He found his niche in a waterslide area that had 3 different slides to choose from, all riding single or double rubber rings. Although he had to wait for Ross to return so he could have a dip at the enclosed “dark” side because Barb’s hearts wasn’t up to it.
There was a bit of a breeze throughout the day and Poo Poo Head had a little teeth chattering on and off.
Ross and Steve were introduced to the “Wedgie” water slide. To our combined surprise, this little beauty supplies exactly what it’s name suggests …. A huge Wedgie. Ie Bathers, bikini, horse, motorcycle or park bench; whatever you have hanging around your arse when you start will be forced to disappear by massive water pressure straight up you clacker. You climb a scaffolding high into the heavens, and step (alone) through a door into a claustrophobic vertical tube about 600mm across. The door is closed, and there you stand on flap that you know is going to suddenly disappear and send you plummeting vertically down a tiny enclosed watery pipe.
They even give you a 3 second countdown before rip, rip, ouch. After the initial plummet, and a swirling circular bend the magic happens. A mere 7 seconds after the 3 second count down, there you stand in the middle of the theme park trying to look cool with eys half shut, a confused look and 75% of your bathers up your bum.
Barb manage to scream like a banshee on every slide she went on …… and they were all for kids !!!
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