Splashin' Safari

 

Welcome to Splashin' Safari - possibly the best water park in the States

The Wave

Wahtubee

Muziki Bay - this is where the old waterfortress used to be.  Now there is a stage and shallow pool to play in while you watch

Otorongo.  Go is still our favorite slide

Safari Racers.  Unfortunately they no longer have timers

Zinga

ZOOMbabwe.  It was definitely warm in that tube today

Safari Sam's Splashland

Bahari Wave Pool (we honestly liked the Wave better)

Mammoth Water Coaster

Wildebeest Water Coaster - this one is still our favorite

Kima Bay.  There is also another kiddie slide area and a kiddie wavepool on up the hill, but since we didn't have kids with us, we didn't venture into that area

This was added since our last visit - Cheetah Chase

The immediate launch up the hill out of the station was interesting

The flying saucer turns seemed more of a gimmick than anything.  It was a fun watercoaster and the racing element was unique, but since its the shortest of the three watercoasters here, it probably comes in third overall

Bahari River.  We still think it was a mistake taking out the other lazy river as this one gets extremely busy.  Maybe time to add another with a faster current and more water interactions?

Bakuli bowl slide

We had a decent time at the park - but would hate to be here on a capacity crowd day.  Since it was so hot outside, everyone at the park was in the waterpark and that made the lines very long even with a "week day crowd".  Crazy to say, the park needs more capacity still

Holiday World

 

Welcome to Holiday World.  It has been awhile since we visited this park

The first section you enter is Christmas.

Side note, really like the new entrance portal arches they added for this season

Even Santa thinks that it is really warm today

The Christmas section looks really nice.  We just wish that there was an attraction or two that catered to the "non-kiddieland" audience

Taking the Express Route through the park, our next section was Thanksgiving

They have really built up this area since our last visit.

Turkey Twirl remains the cutest tilter in existence and we just love Gobbler Getaway

We found this Sally darkride to be well maintained.  The targets were easy to hit and most of the movements on the ride were functional

Mayflower was new since our last visit.  Really good swinging ship ride

After hearing all about it for a season, we finally made it on the best themed Junior Boomerang in existence.  That queue is amazing and the "larger than life" items outside were hysterical

Like, just look at this can.  Just amazing

The Voyage is running amazingly this season

Well... at least in the front row.  We refuse to ride wooden coasters in any other row

Thunderbird was down... apparently it has been down most of this week and won't be open any time soon

We decided to drown our sorrows of not getting to ride Thunderbird by visiting Plymouth Rock Cafe for lunch.  What a great meal.  This is our "go-to" restaurant when we visit the park

Time to head into the 4th of July section

Revolution

Eagle's Flight

Liberty Launch

Firecracker

Rough Riders

Star-Spangled Carousel

We decided to take a stroll through Holidog's Fun Town since we were in the area

Side note, why don't they move all of the kiddie rides to this section from the Christmas section?  Anyway, this area is definitely just for the little ones.

There was zero waiting for the Howler so we did a lap on it because the attendant said we could

There's a cute train that circles the area and takes you by Mother Goose story vignettes

Final section of the park - Halloween

We started with Raven, which is the original of the three wooden coasters at the park

Honestly, we didn't enjoy our rides very much.  Even in the front, this coaster is way too rough on the run back to the station to be enjoyable

HallowSwings remains one of our favorite designs for a wave carousel

Scarecrow Scrambler looked amazing.  I'm not sure how recent it was repainted, but the colors really popped

Now it was time for the best coaster at the park - The Legend

The ride was really smooth (again in the front) and the pacing is perfect

One last ride in the section - Frightful Falls.  It is kind of hidden away, but a fun log flume

We had a great (yet extremely warm) day at Holiday World

Those free drinks really came in handy today - I guess we didn't realize that the drink deal debuted the same season that The Legend was added to the park.

Until Next Time