Ocean Dunes Water Park

Earlier in the summer, I entered to win passes to one of Northern Virginia's water parks and in early August I found out I won - hooray! Thanks Our Kids for offering these great raffles.  After we got back from all our vacation travels, I checked out the passes and was surprised to see that one of the parks was located just a few minutes away from our house; I was also surprised to see that the water parks all close after Labor Day weekend, which was a week away - yikes!

We made plans to head over to Ocean Dunes Water Park on Monday afternoon of Labor Day weekend, the last day of the season. As soon as we got out of the car and Mason saw the water, he went crazy and was having a tantrum while we waited in line.  We need a plan to control this kid around water!

We got into the park and it was packed!  There were three pools - a kiddie wadding pool, a lap pool and a regular pool.  There were also water slides and a large water feature that I don't even know how to explain - picture below.  Mason bee-lined for the the water feature and we spend the afternoon going back and forth between that and the kiddie pool.  We wrapped up the outing with some ice cream.  

Ocean Dunes was a great way to end the summer and now that we know it is here, I'm sure we'll be back multiple times next summer. Hopefully next year, Mason will reach the height requirement for the slides!