What did Heather and I do last weekend you ask?
We went to Adventureland!
For those of you who didn’t know, and it’s probably a lot of you, Adventureland is an amusement park in Des Moines.
It isn’t the biggest park I have ever been too, but we had fun.
We probably wouldn’t have gone, but both our companies happened to have chosen the same day for their company outing to Adventureland.
Heather and I both remembered kind of liking roller coasters, but after two different ones, we weren’t sure they were all that much fun. I am going to blame having eaten some rather greasy food and the heat for part of my upset stomach… but the fact remains I kind of felt old.
The newer areas of the park all focus on water rides. Nearly all the slides require a tube to go down. I didn’t take the time to try all of them out, but the ones I did try were really fun!
They also have a feature called “the lazy river.” Its an interesting idea, they basically recreated what tubing down a nice calm creek would be like… assuming the creek has concrete banks, chlorinated water and is packed full of strangers. I think the hot day probably pushed more people into the water, but the lazy river was way too crowded to be “lazy.”
We forgot to pack a camera, so I will have to put up yet another post without pictures /sigh.
The final verdict is that, with free admission, the park was well worth our afternoon. If we would have been required to pay retail for our tickets… it’s hard to say, maybe if we had paced ourselves better with the roller coasters 🙂
-Jordan
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