When we were kids you and Mom took us to Six Flags, and then some corollary of it whose name I can't think of. It was a giant water park, and I remember your infectious enthusiasm for it. We went down gigantic slides, and I remember going through some underground tunnel slide and cannon-balling out into a (FREEZING) pond. I slapped into the water and it was so, so painful and so cold, I remember that sensation vividly many years later.
Then, in 1991, a water park called Splish Splash opened, about 45 minutes from our house. I was what - 14 - and Amy a couple years younger, but you immediately asked us both if we wanted to go. Of course we did. I am not sure, but I don't think Mom came?
Regardless, it was so much cleaner and nicer than the park in NJ. That said, I remember some kind of log flume, and some tubing, and I guess some slides, but that was it.
It was my birthday on Friday day, and all I wanted to do was go to the beach. Which I'm glad to say I did. On Friday, Saturday, and today, Sunday. We had a big fun BBQ, and Meredith and her kids came up to visit. Peggy and Jim came, and Mom and Marc, and Ellen and Bert. I missed you though. Meredith came through in the goofy animal card department, but I didn't get one from you for the first time in a long time.
But your spirit lived on, in all my swimming hijinks this weekend. I am so glad that I shared my passion for water with you.
x
M
Action Park was the one in NJ. It's infamous for being the most dangerous place ever back in the 80's. You can find videos and stuff on it. It was shockingly dangerous! Thank god Dad didn't know.
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