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Trying to social-distance on a lazy river would be pointless-at least there weren’t so many guests that we were jammed in together. I bounced like a pinball off the walls-and some other tubers.

Initially, I tried to maintain some line of sight of my minors, but gave up halfway around and let the ride take its course. As Mia and I floated, he ditched the tube to see how many floating visitors he could pass on foot, using the current as his turbo boost. I’m never sure why Nick thinks lazy rivers are races. The two kids were already heading in, baptizing themselves in their first normal fun activity in ages. His imagery gave me pause, but apparently desperate times had erased my children’s misgivings. My son Nick asked us to “remember how much of this water is basically pee,” before begging that we start with a three-minute round on the Lazy River-a way to get used to the water temperature, which proved barely cool.

The humid, chlorinated fog hit us as soon as we opened the glass doors and entered the massive space.

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We walked through the adventure park, past the zip line and the tiny roller coasters, and paid $120 each for water-park day passes. They were coming in droves, though the place was so spacious that inside, it still looked pretty empty.

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In a parking lot the size of a few city blocks, we wound our way to a space and witnessed the arrivals: families pushing strollers, prepared like professional attendees with their swimsuits and suitcases. It was a gorgeous, 70-degree day, perfect for being not indoors, but when we arrived, we were hardly alone. A year later, thanks to chemical disinfectants and Texans’ thirst for water-based fun, Kalahari was marking its first anniversary. At 1.5 million square feet, Kalahari, which “combines America’s largest indoor Waterparks with the magic of Africa,” includes a hotel, restaurants, adventure park, and a water park with thirty (thirty!) waterslides. Last November, I’d read that the $550 million Kalahari Resorts & Conventions opened in Round Rock, an adventure that seemed as feasible to me then as a trip to the center of the Earth. Could we even remember what we used to do on weekends? With COVID restrictions easing, we figured we must be able to do something besides the usual outdoor chores and sports. If I were to suggest this kind of activity today, I can predict the response: “We’re good.” Gone are the days from the previous fall, when, out of boredom, they bagged red-oak leaves for five bucks’ pay. Back in March 2020, armed with a power drill, I’d handed them some old screens from a neighbor’s tear-down so we could enclose their playscape fort, and they’d gamely complied. I feel the need to milk this age, to stare at them when they’re not looking, to make up for a year and a half of experiences lost out in the world.

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Now as the mother of a middle schooler and a high schooler, I’ve noticed windows of opportunity closing. In what felt like one 14,609-hour-long day, they’ve grown taller, wiser, and, of course, older: my pre-pandemic nine- and twelve-year-old kids have turned eleven and fourteen. Like many others during the pandemic, mine missed out on in-person school, parties, vacations, and sleepovers. The city promised the developer $61 million in incentives, and state leaders further incentivized the project with a $25 million cash bond. But the recession hit, and Kalahari was unable to get additional funding for the project.It’s strange to watch your kids age in place. Just before the dawn of the Great Recession, the company proposed building a $260 million indoor waterpark in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Kalahari’s efforts at building incentivized water parks have not always panned out. The whole time, they said… ‘we are going to get this spun up, this industry is coming back. “When you speak to the Nelson family, what you find is they have some real grit to them. “It could have been a precarious time,” said Ball. This does not factor in the debt service payments or the other revenues the City of Round Rock received from Kalahari: the sales tax, mixed beverage tax and state rebates. The City of Round Rock told KXAN Friday as of September, Kalahari has brought in $5,865,041 in hotel and venue tax collections.