Back in June a bunch of us bought Groupons for the local amusement park, thinking that there was no way we’d have a problem using them before they expired “in August,” the exact date being today. Thus we had no choice but to spend the afternoon riding water slides and playing mini golf (and a little running through sprinklers). Several of the water slides had some steep drops, making for quite the adrenaline rush. It was possible to rent tubes for some of the slides, but we opted to forgo that and merrily bypassed the longer lines of tube-carriers. Silly people paying to wait!