Water Park

On Monday the 19th, with no classes yet, I went with some fellow students to a water park.

While not exactly the epitome of Hungarian culture, the water park did have some hot baths. They are large pools filled with hot water to relax in. Some even have chess boards in them. The most unique feature was the sulfur in the hot baths. It takes a few minutes to become inured to the pungent smell, which resembles rotten eggs, but I'm told the sulfur kills microorganisms in the water and is healthy for your skin too.

Like any good water park, it had several tall slides. Unlike the US, there were few lifeguards at any of the water-slides, customers just used common sense. Instead of having a lifeguard tell patrons when to go down the slide, people simply watched themselves and waited until the previous person was already at the bottom of the slide. The slides were also much steeper than their American counterparts. Some people slid so fast that it looked like they flew about 10 feet across the water after they reached the bottom. It was thrilling to shoot down these slides, but also a sad reminder of how watered down American parks have become due to ubiquitous lawsuits.

We swam in a wave pool too, and the waves were a good six feet high or so. We all had much fun at the water park, and I was pleasantly tired at the end.