When one of my Met Office chums asked if anyone wanted to go to the largest water park in the UK, there was only one possible response: YES!
Reasoning that we were going to be wet anyway, we didn't let the overcast sky and drizzle deter us; it did appear to have put off a lot of other people though, so our hardiness was rewarded by having the park pretty much to ourselves for the first couple of hours!
There were several different styles of slides: some where you sit on a mat, some in rubber rings and some just free-styled. There was one very long steep slide which I thought was pretty scary and nearly bottled out of, until a knee-high child launched himself down it, and I felt the need to restore my dignity. Evidence above left.
We had a mid-session break for hot chocolate and freshly cooked doughnuts in the drizzle, after which the sun came out and we spent another few hours sliding, splashing and screaming (okay, that was just me).
Then we had chips on the beach.
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