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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1698589" data-attributes="member: 2205">The Great Dyal Vacation of 2004 Trip Journal Entry #11: July 12thMonday we woke up relatively early so we could drive to New Braunfels in time for the opening of Schlitterbahn.  New Braunfels is nestled fairly comfortably between San Antone and Austin, and as you might guess from the name, was originally a German settlement, of which there are a lot in Texas.  And Schlitterbahn, I've always maintained, is the best waterpark in the world.  Apparently the Travel Channel recently validated my opinion in that matter, ranking it the #1 waterpark in the nation.  Part of the reason it's ranked so high is because it's so frikkin massive, no doubt.Because we were going with our kids, we didn't intend on necessarily living the park to the fullest; we spent pretty much all our time in the original, main park area, although my father in law and brother in law both took the shuttle to one of the other areas.The crowds were pretty out of control; but as I said, we consciously made up our minds ahead of time not to be bothered about stuff like that.  We were able to leave the smaller kids with my mother in law and go do a few things with the older kids.  Julie, Spencer, Jessica and I all went on the big river ride, which literally goes through the river in a number of areas (and which uses river water, not chlorinated pool water.)  It's a long ride where you sit on tubes, going for about half an hour or forty five minutes.  Jessica was terrified at times, especially whenever we went anywhere even remotely fast.  Julie and I, on the other hand, were more concerned with trying to keep our group together, which wasn't necessarily easy when you're sitting in a tube and letting the current take you wherever.  Anytime there is a fast section, there tends to be a counter current on the edges, so if you're not careful, you can get stuck, separated, or otherwise have all kinds of wierd things happen.After that, Spencer and I went on a few more aggressive rides, including long tube shoots, soda straws and a four story (or so) slide.  Naturally, we also spent a lot of time in the really small kids play areas, and Jessica and Spencer seemed to want to spend a lot of time hanging out in Olympic pool sized hot tubs, of which we frequented two or three.Then we said goodbye to the inlaws and went our separate ways; we were spending the night in San Antonio for the night en route to Lubbock where my parents now live, while they had to, naturally, go back home.  We ended up getting a very late dinner at Taco Cabana, a place I hadn't eaten in a long time (it was either better than I remembered, or I've just got a hankering for good Tex Mex that I can't fill in Detroit).  The kids had had it by then, though -- they were extremely exhausted after their day in the sun, and dinner (other than the food) was unfortunately quite miserable.  We got back in very late, but stopped to do laundry anyway.  Luckily, the next day we only had about four and a half or five hours to drive and nothing to be in a hurry about.</blockquote>

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