It is tremendously hard to believe that Zack, the young man who I once referred to as "my little Zackie" turned 15 years old yesterday. Zack is definitely now a young man. He is only an inch or two shorter than me. He needs to shave at least once a week or he starts to look like a shaggy beast. It seems as each day his strength and muscles grow larger. Despite his size, muscles, beard and mustache in my heart he is and will always be "my little Zackie".
For Zack's birthday celebration this year Zack and I along with two of Zack's best friends - Jess and James, headed to Denver's Water World water park. Water World is one of the largest water parks in the United States. It features over 49 different water slides, pools, surfing features and even a water based roller coaster.
I had hoped to be on the road to Water World around 9:15AM but we had a couple of delays (mainly me sleeping in) that didn't see us on the road until almost 9:30AM. I felt like a school bus driver as I made stops to pick up Zack's friends. The water park is about 20 miles to the north of our home in Centennial so we didn't end up arriving until almost 10:20am. The fact that one of his friends was still sound asleep when we arrived at his home also slowed us down a bit.
Once through the gates we quickly found an excellent place next to the largest wave pool to set up shop. I made sure each of the kids covered themselves in sun screen as I didn't want any of them getting sun burnt and then we were off to have fun.
Zack and his buddies mainly spent their day in the Thunder Bay wave pool. This pool is a monstrous sized wave pool that is capable of generating massive 5 - 7 feet tall waves. I had rented each of them the large inner tubes that that are available at the park. They loved hanging out in this pool riding the waves all day. I on the other hand took off and hit just about every attraction that is available in the park. (You didn't expect me to spend the day hanging around with Zack and his two best geek buddies in the world did you?) I tried to do at least one of each type of attraction that is available in the park. I even did the "pipeline" slides that rise over 6 stories into the air and plunge you down almost vertically into a shallow basin of water. I don't know how fast you go on those slides but they are incredibly fast and you definitely experience a free fall sensation as you go off the top. As I stood at the top looking down, I did question why I was doing this crazy extreme thing. But once I was on it sliding downward, I loved it.
We spent the entire day at Water World. Leaving there at 5:00PM we immediately ran into rush hour traffic which made the ride home very long. Going home we dropped off Zack's friends and stopped to pick up Nancy. For Zack's birthday dinner he wanted pizza and a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. After we got Nancy to the house I left to get the pizza and the cake.
The evening was as enjoyable as the rest of the day. In addition to Nancy, my brother and Lisa and her youngest son all came and had dinner with us. Zack got several very nice gifts and we all enjoyed a very tasty dinner together. The pizza was from our local pizzeria located in Willow Creek - Mama Roma's. I am not sure why, but they do have some of the best pizza in this world. They also make a really tasty Italian dressing for their salads. The dressing is so good that we always get an extra 2 or 3 servings so that we can dip our pizza in it. It is so yummy!
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Tomorrow (Friday) we embark upon another adventure as we are headed to New Mexico for the day. We'll be getting up very early as we intend to visit the Capulin Volcano National Monument and the Cimarron Canyon before picking up one of my nephews and his buddy from the Boy Scouts of America Philmont Scout Ranch outside of Cimarron, NM. It should be another great day with lots of new and exciting sights for us to see.
Hope everyone has had a great week so far!
Thanks and peace to all! ~ J.
For Zack's birthday celebration this year Zack and I along with two of Zack's best friends - Jess and James, headed to Denver's Water World water park. Water World is one of the largest water parks in the United States. It features over 49 different water slides, pools, surfing features and even a water based roller coaster.
I had hoped to be on the road to Water World around 9:15AM but we had a couple of delays (mainly me sleeping in) that didn't see us on the road until almost 9:30AM. I felt like a school bus driver as I made stops to pick up Zack's friends. The water park is about 20 miles to the north of our home in Centennial so we didn't end up arriving until almost 10:20am. The fact that one of his friends was still sound asleep when we arrived at his home also slowed us down a bit.
Once through the gates we quickly found an excellent place next to the largest wave pool to set up shop. I made sure each of the kids covered themselves in sun screen as I didn't want any of them getting sun burnt and then we were off to have fun.
Zack and his buddies mainly spent their day in the Thunder Bay wave pool. This pool is a monstrous sized wave pool that is capable of generating massive 5 - 7 feet tall waves. I had rented each of them the large inner tubes that that are available at the park. They loved hanging out in this pool riding the waves all day. I on the other hand took off and hit just about every attraction that is available in the park. (You didn't expect me to spend the day hanging around with Zack and his two best geek buddies in the world did you?) I tried to do at least one of each type of attraction that is available in the park. I even did the "pipeline" slides that rise over 6 stories into the air and plunge you down almost vertically into a shallow basin of water. I don't know how fast you go on those slides but they are incredibly fast and you definitely experience a free fall sensation as you go off the top. As I stood at the top looking down, I did question why I was doing this crazy extreme thing. But once I was on it sliding downward, I loved it.
The Gang of Geeks - They call themselves geeks - it's just not me!
The evening was as enjoyable as the rest of the day. In addition to Nancy, my brother and Lisa and her youngest son all came and had dinner with us. Zack got several very nice gifts and we all enjoyed a very tasty dinner together. The pizza was from our local pizzeria located in Willow Creek - Mama Roma's. I am not sure why, but they do have some of the best pizza in this world. They also make a really tasty Italian dressing for their salads. The dressing is so good that we always get an extra 2 or 3 servings so that we can dip our pizza in it. It is so yummy!
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Zack lighting up the candles on his b-day cake.
The birthday boy and me
Tomorrow (Friday) we embark upon another adventure as we are headed to New Mexico for the day. We'll be getting up very early as we intend to visit the Capulin Volcano National Monument and the Cimarron Canyon before picking up one of my nephews and his buddy from the Boy Scouts of America Philmont Scout Ranch outside of Cimarron, NM. It should be another great day with lots of new and exciting sights for us to see.
Hope everyone has had a great week so far!
Thanks and peace to all! ~ J.
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