cause I’m out of most of my words tonight. We got home last night and spent today getting readjusted to non-resort life. Here’s a taste of our weekend.
Caleb riding with the luggage. Every time we went around a turn the suitcases would fall over on him and he’d have to call for help to right them again. Hey, at least he has a seatbelt.
Almost there. Atlantis is on a man made island shaped like a palm tree. There are beautiful villas/resorts that occupy the fronds that are lettered so you can tell them apart and say things like, “I live on frond M.”
To get to Atlantis, you drive up the trunk of the palm tree and at the very tip-top there is a tunnel that goes under the water and comes up in the center of that outer circle of islands.
Inside the Atlantis resort is a waterpark called Aquaventure. This is the wave pool that connects a bunch of different innertube rides/lazy rivers. They are taking their innertubes and heading toward that tunnel on the right. We spent almost our entire weekend in the waterpark, aside from a short detour to the Dubai mall.
Waiting at the base of The Leap of Faith — the tallest waterslide in the park. You drop straight down into a tube that runs through a tank filled with sharks, rays and other fish. It’s similar to Splash Mountain’s drop at Disneyland. Everyone did this ride multiple times except Carter and me. I was considering it (because it’s such a short ride), but there never seemed to be a good time to actually do it. :cough: scaredy-cat :cough:
The vertical drop turns into the tube once you hit the mist — it runs under the bridge that I’m standing on and you drop out into a pool on the other side.
Baby loves fries. And chicken. And hamburgers. And salsa. And cheesesteaks. Pretty much anything edible.
More to come . . .