Wings & Waves Waterpark

(The 3 boys had a sleepover at Nana and Grandpas the night before we went to the wavepool--Abbie joined us in the AM)

You read it right...yesterday tons of fun was had at the Wings and Waves Waterpark, which is the newest addition to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville Oregon. This glorious waterpark opened this June and has been a huge success from day one. I for one LOVE waterparks so when I heard that my parents were going to take the 3 boys (Keegan, Chandler and Hayden) and Abbie to the new attraction within the Aviation & Space Museum I was more than game. Lucky for me I had an "excuse" to go in a frolick about the entire day because if your child is 10 and under they must be accompanied by a swimming adult...not just an adult in the building. Keegan is 13 so he just needs a chaperone within the building, but the other three are 10, 9 and 7so they had to have an adult chaperone with them swimming alongside them the entire time for safety. So I had to bite the bullet, and much to my dismay I had to accompany the kids at the waterpark all day long....uugh what a drag. ;) While the 5 of us more than enjoyed ourselves in the wavepool, 4 HUGE slides, the "vortex" pool, the play structure, and the interactive water museum my parents took the opportunity to just hang out, eat some lunch (before we joined them, after a wavepool test run) and spend the majority of the day outside reading. We probably spent about 6 hrs just frolicking about the waterpark and really enjoying the day having lots of fun with eachother.
The kids were all so excited to try all of the slides and we successfully went on every one of them. We would have loved to have tried them more than once, but the lines were just a bit too long to wait in more than once. Although the lines and wait for each slide were a bit long the slide itself was very long and provided some serious fun that made the wait well worth it. In addition to enjoying the slides the kids also loved the wavepool. Abbie wore a life jacket despite being able to swim because the water throughout the park was very strong and she is a skinny little thing. Not to mention I prefer to prevent something like drowning in a wavepool. Chandler, Hayden and Keegan loved riding the waves down the pool and we all enjoyed the play structure. It had 2 smaller slides and a lot of water guns and buckets to get people wet with, would dump over, spilling 300 gallons of water on top of everything and everyone below it. Very Fun! All in all we had an AMAZING DAY and hope to visit the waterpark again sooner than later. The only downfall to the waterpark experience is the price...it is a little spendy if you ask me. It costs $30.00 if you are 42'inches or more and $25.00 if you are under 42' inches. Another weird aspect is the unnecessary (if you ask me) charge for the adults or other people who came to the facility but are not swimming. It costs $10.00 for you to pretty much sit at a table and watch your family/friends enjoy the pools and slides. I read on the website that they do this becaue there is no way for them to distingish between someone just sitting on the side or somene who paid and is there to swim. I guess I understand but I think that they can charge a smidge less oh well, such is life. Below are some pictures from the day as well as the link to the
water park,
Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum/Wings & Waves Waterpark:
http://www.evergreenmuseum.org/waterpark/attractions/