At the LC, they were given a demonstration, and toured a children's play area, gym and the centre's major new pool, which boasts a giant undulating waterslide.

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He subbed it for a similar sliding option, the Waterslide in Danby, Vermont, which is accessed by private property and recently closed because swimmers were leaving garbage behind.

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Once you plunge in you find sections that alternate between slow streams where you can beach yourself against a flat half-submerged rock, and fast currents of waterslide fun.

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This, on the heels of a beer-drinking contest that pitted an American against a Canadian and a guy from the U.K. The loser--the Brit--climbs into an enclosed waterslide that snakes along the restaurant's ceiling and sloshes into the lagoon outside.

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