Skip to main content

Onward Beach Resort Waterpark

This past Saturday Matthew and I were invited to the Onward Beach Resort Waterpark for the Volunteer Appreciation Day with the USO.  We have been getting more involved with the USO and volunteering our time there.  It has been a lot of fun so far.  At first we didn't think that we would be able to go to the Appreciation day because we had only volunteered once before that.  But when we were personally called and invited to go to a waterpark for a day, then we had to accept.

When you think of a waterpark in the US what do you think about?  Big slides, awesome rides, a wave pool?  Yeah well there were a few of all of those things at this waterpark.  Take a look at the comparison maps that I have for you.  The first one is of Water Country USA, the second Guam's Waterpark.





Guam's waterpark had exactly 4 slides, 2 with tubes and 2 without tubes, one crazy drop ride on a tube, a wave pool and a lazy river plus a couple smaller pools for the kids and a Jacuzzi pool.  We were able to ride every slide and the one ride twice and go around the lazy river a couple times as well as eat lunch and sit through a presentation of gifts/raffle in the 4 hours that we were there.  Don't get me wrong there are a lot of things that are better than a huge waterpark like Water Country USA.  For instance, there were NO RULES!  (And even if there were, no one was there to enforce them.)  So on these rides we saw kids that were at the top of the slide with the rafts running and jumping head first one right after the other.  Dangerous but still they were having fun and no one got seriously hurt as far as we could tell.  The slides without the tubes did have a guy telling you when you were clear to go and the drop ride did have someone to hold your raft and push you off.  But the lines were practically non-existent; I think the longest we had to wait in line for a ride was about 5 minutes at the drop and that is only because it had just opened back up after lunch time.  

We had a fun time at the waterpark and we got a free lunch out of it as well as a prize from the raffle drawing!  Yep, after lunch they gave out gifts for people that held a certain amount of hours volunteering at the USO and then they drew tickets for a raffle that they were giving out tickets for during lunch.  Matthew's ticket won us a new set of kitchen knives!  (What's weird is we had to carry that around the waterpark with us until we left.  We kept it hidden under a towel most of the time because we didn't think the park would allow a huge set of knives to be inside their waterpark.  Apparently we were wrong because one of the USO guys actually asked why we were hiding our new knives as we were leaving!)  "OOG" is one of the phrases that was thrown out a lot during that day.  It means "Only On Guam."  Some of the things we noticed:
  1. Only On Guam would you go to a hotel to get to the only waterpark on the island.
  2. OOG would they allow molding, crusting slides to continue to be used at a water park. 
  3. OOG could you carry around about 20 knives in a tourist attraction and not be thrown out.
  4. OOG could you got to a waterpark at the end of November.
We took some video of a couple of the rides that we went on for you to see for yourself.

This one is one of the tube slides.


This one is closed side without tubes.


And this one was the one that dropped really far and looks like a half-pike.  By far the scariest and most fun.


And here are some pictures that we took while we were there:




This was the raffle/gift table where we wont our new knife set.


Thanks for reading!  :)



Comments

Anonymous said…
There is a much larger water park on Guam called Tarza. Although it is not nearly as big as Water Country, it has tons more rides including a FlowRider, a Master Blaster, and the Black Hole. They have been opened since 1997.....too bad you missed out
11/16/16, 11:54 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

5 Months...Really?

As the title suggest, I am entering into month 5 of the pregnancy.  However, I neither feel nor look like I am that far along at all.  I have gained a little bit more energy even though I still like a nap in the afternoons when I can get one.  I also haven't been having any weird pregnancy cravings like what you hear most women have.  I guess ice cream could count as a craving even though it's not really all that crazy for a pregnant woman to want ice cream.  The crazy thing I guess for me would be that I never really ate ice cream that much before I was pregnant and now I want it at least once a week. No weird dreams either; I'd be lucky if I remembered any dreams anyway.  I hardly ever remember my dreams unless they are really horrible nightmares and thank goodness I am not having any of those. We got some new furniture for the nursery today off of a Guam garage sale website.  We got a real nice dresser/changing table combo that I am pretty excited about.  That makes
Post a Comment
Read more

37+ Week Update

So I know it has been a while since my last post.  I figured it was about time for me do another update blog on the pregnancy.  It will be pretty short cause there is not much new to report. I had an ultrasound at 36 weeks last week to get  an update on how Isabella is progressing and what position she was in after a few weeks without knowing.  If you have been keeping up with me on facebook then you know how that turned out!  We didn't get any news from the ultrasound other than the fact that Isabella was still sitting comfortably in her breech position. The following Monday we had an appointment with my OB to get the rest of the information that we were wanting to hear.  She told us that Isabella was growing appropriately and was looking healthy!  So good news is awesome to hear!  Of course she then proceeded with the news that we already heard, Isabella is still breech.  We reviewed our options for turning and delivery and decided to try a procedure called an external cephal
Post a Comment
Read more

Isabella is 1 Month Old!

So as promised in my last post:  I have some exciting news!  But you must read on and get some baby goodness first! Today is 9/11/14 in Guam and while for some this day is still a tragic memory of the lives lost just a few years ago, today it is a celebratory day for the Ohrvalls because we are proud to have a (no longer newborn) 1 month old in our household!  We are totally smitten with this little one and love her to death even when she wakes us 3-4 times a night and drains us of any real sound sleeping.  But we will forgive her of that and hold it over her head when she is a teenager  (Just kidding...kinda!) Isabella has reached a few milestones already in her short time with us.  Here are some of the things she is doing now: Holding her head up for short amounts of time while having tummy time or being supported as she sits up Following Mommy and Daddy's voices/faces by turning her head towards us Sufficiently putting her hands in her mouth and suckling her fingers Sl
Post a Comment
Read more