Today for Jennette's birthday, she chose to host an Hill Country Outdoors event to Schlitterbahn. I figured that since I had a season pass (best decision I made this summer) and since Jennette is my friend and I would of course want to be there for her birthday-I went. Today's players (Jennette, Neal, Manny, me and Alan) met at Academy on the way to carpool.
Neal and Alan got a little confused and tried to find us at the new park
instead of the old where we were waiting. While we were waiting I got
attacked by a large stuffed dog. Actually I guess Schlitterbahn got a
mascot since I worked there Schatze the wiener dog and we got our
picture taken with the human in a costume replica. Once the guys found
us we were off! I had to be at work and would have to leave early so I
kind of took the lead to get us on the optimal amount of rides in the
time provided :) We did the White water and the Cliffhanger and then we
went on one I have not been on yet this year-The Congo. Basically as
you are standing in line you get a talking to by an animatronic safari
guide. Then you get into the old lazy river and you go through a hut
that has vines and light flashes like lightening and smells of plastic.
Sometimes there is mist and sometimes it is turned off. There are
various animatronics -a lion, snake, monkey and an elephant that try to
scare you or squirt water on you. Then you head off into an old mine
tunnel when you have returned pretty much where you started. It was
pretty cheesy but had a good drop in a tunnel. We had a lot of deep
discussions about the properties of water(at least Manny and I did)We
rode the raging river where Manny tried to give Jennette a big piece of
drift wood as a birthday present and then the boys went down the fast
water slide. It was a good day and I am hoping Jennette had a great
birthday. I eventually had to leave them and head back so I could get to
work. 
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