Some days do you want to just get an inner tube and float 700 feet down a lazy river? If you’re more adventurous, how about shooting out of the top of a tower and going in one of three directions, each direction named after a different rock and roll dance (“The Hully Gully,” “The Twist,” and, my favorite, “The Funky Chicken”), two hundred feet in the air, dropping two hundred feet down, and landing in a nine thousand square inch pool? Admittedly, these two actions (floating lazily, dropping in terror two hundred feet) arise from entirely different moods, but it’s possible to want to do both at Water Country, USA, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Wiliamsburg, VA, has so many things to do that it’s easy to lose track of them at times. There’s Busch Gardens, there’s Colonial Williamsburg, there’s ghost tours of the areas. There’s even a park that contains gigantic sculptures of the heads of past U.S. Presidents. So it may be easy to overlook the water park aspects of Williamsburg; however, I recommending finding a hotel at http://www.hotelswilliamsburg.com, make sure your accommodations are in order, and then change clothes and head for the park.
Water Country, USA, has a decidedly rock and roll theme to its park (Rock ‘n’ Roll Island’s main attraction is a thirty-three foot tall slide tower that’s named Jammin’ Juke Box), and, almost ironically, a West Coast theme: The rides include Malibu Pipeline, Hubba Hubba Highway, Big Daddy Falls, Aquazoid, Jet Scream, Nitro Racer, Rampage, and Wild Thang. Finding a ride named Malibu Pipeline on the East Coast makes sense to me. I never did understand Disney’s California Adventure theme park, which simulates what it’s like to be in California, while you’re actually in California. If you’re on the East Coast, though, sometimes you want to be where you’re not. And, when the weather’s a little warmer, the Pipeline seems like a good way to do it. Of course, right now, in the middle of winter, we’ll have to wait for this adventure. The park opens up again in May.
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