June 19, 2009

Five Things We Never Expected to Find at a Water Park (but found at Kunduchi Wet n’ Wild in Dar es Salaam)

5. A water park with a stereo stuck on repeat. “When a man loves a woman…”

4. A water park where the ground is essentially gravel (not exactly ideal for hundreds of barefoot guests).

3. A water park that asks you to create an itemized list of everything you put in your locker (tampons, t-shirts, pennies, etc.)

2. A water park that has no life guards manning slides, creating a free for all where kids crash into each-other all over the place.

1. A water park that has three slides which require inner tubes, about 50 inner-tubes (for hundreds of guests), 20 of which have holes. As a result, children are given toxic glue and razor blades to mend the popped tubes for themselves…