I put sunscreen, but I tan a lot anyway...useless...

Why is it that one friend always bleaches, one always burns, and one doesn't tan at all? I guess we all respond to sun differently even though we all live on this Vitamin D-enriched rock in the middle of nowhere.

Enjoy this picture of me and Steph displaying our Shaka riding skills and lung capacity~

So to celebrate a friend's birthday, going to the beach was in order. Unfortunately, nobody (but me) likes the feeling of sand between their foot and their slipper, so the water park served as a chlorine-filled alternative. Within that short 5 hours, we managed to ride all the rides. A few rides multiple times. I still feel the effects of swinging back and forth on the Tornado and the Ragin' River (which is a great substitute for the now-dead Cliffhanger). I guess I rode a bit too much...

Anyway, what does this have to do with physics? SO MUCH. Going down slides brings in gravity, so if there wasn't any twists and turns to decelerate us, many many rides would cause us to go down screamingly fast and fall out onto the unforgiving cement. At the same time, the water on the slides provides low friction so that we can actually start moving with it. Unfortunately, there was no way to have still water at any point so I couldn't test out any refraction or double slit properties. Wavelengths were obviously there, being the water and all that.

Good Friday was great. Saturday (as many Juniors and Physics students observed) was not. Hopefully it'll get better...

Yay for the waterpark! Boo for broken servers and English in general!