5.31.12 Back to the Bahn

The season passes were definitely a good investment. Angela, Manny, Xander and I left bright and early for Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels. This time we went to the new park. Our first ride was the Master Blaster. We had to stand in line Forever!!!!!!! After great discussion about how we were going to try and lose weight not to be in the back of the double tube by the end of the summer, we made it to the beginning of the line. Xander decided he wanted to ride with me. Our boat was named "Twinkly." It was fun as always. The Master Blaster is an uphill water roller coaster. I rode the first one that was created when I worked at Schlitterbahn in the 90's. Next was the ride with the green tubes. The line was a lot shorter for this one. We tried to have a race between me and Angela and Manny and Xander. Angela and I lost to the boys.



We then went over to The Falls- which is the longest ride (mainly because it loops back around). You can get on the ride in several different spots so there are normally no lines (unless they are out of tubes.) It is a pretty good rapidy ride.The only part I am not crazy about is the conveyor belt part of it. It takes you from one part and puts you back in at the "beginning."

I was heading around one of the bends and went through a rapid part but I flipped over and hit my head on the side. Now in the original park at Schlitterbahn all the rides have a foamish type side. The Falls does not. The lifeguards helped me to the side but one of them made the comment that he felt me hit the wall (the lifeguards are teenagers.) No harm no foul though, I was fine and I got back on my tube and took back off down the ride.
Xander wanted to try the "Boogie Bahn" so we went over to "Surfenburg" and him and Manny got in line. "Boogie Bahn" is a big fake wave of high powered water that you can use a boogie board to "ride" it. I can't remember if I ever tried Boogie Bahn back in the day. It has changed a little bit. All I remember is that there was a good chance a girl was going to lose her bikini top and the season passers took forever to get off the ride. Xander went first. He did good, but he has no real weight to him so he didn't last long. Manny went next and stayed on for a little longer. The last ride on our list was the Wave pool. Wave pools have come a long way. Not only was it a pool but a "lazy river." So the waves started on one side and push all around in a circle and end up in the pool. It was actually a lot of fun. Afterwards, the boys shot water cannons for a while at the huge pirate ship and then we took off.

We like trying new places to eat and today was no different. We stopped in at Tj's on the loop. They have a ton of food to choose from. I was trying to be somewhat healthy and grabbed a bbq chicken sandwich with tater tots (ok not really that healthy but I had had my sights on a Philly cheese steak.) Manny and Angela got burgers and Xander got a hot dog. The restaurant had random things on the wall and some local jerseys. It was kind of like they were trying to be like TGIFridays or Applebees - but there just wasn't enough "stuff." We got our food from the counter and sat down to eat. Xander's hot dog was enormous. Manny and Angela said their burgers were ok. My chicken was strange. It was a flat hardish tough piece of chicken with a big blob of bottled bbq sauce on both sides of the chicken. I ate it but it was greasy and not very tasty. We checked in on Foursquare afterwards and noticed the first tip on there was that the food was not very good. Well we tried it and now can check that one off the list.