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...slide to impress some jaded vacationers. One swoosh down Totem Tower at the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, Va., and Andrew Lappas, 5, seemed bored. "I thought, Uh-oh, one run and we're done?" his father, Chris Lappas, 40, recalls with a laugh. Before long they discovered the indoor water park's longer, steeper tunnel slides--they start atop a four-story staircase and snake in and out of the cavernous hall into a plunge pool below--and Andrew was hooked. "We proceeded to go down about 25 more times," Lappas says...
...happily worn-out 5-year-old is a highly desirable commodity in leisure travel these days, as indoor-water-park hotels, once unique to Wisconsin as an escape from the bone-chilling winters, spring up by the dozens across the U.S. "There's a real thirst for a family activity that's close to home, that's more than a trip to the movie theater," says PriceWaterhouseCoopers analyst Scott Berman. By adding indoor water parks to existing hotels or building new "destination" water-park resorts, hotel owners are attracting those families and in the process recharging business...
While smaller than their open-air counterparts, indoor water parks are still massive: 35,000 sq. ft. or larger, with elaborate networks of raft rides and body slides, plus fountains, wave pools and shallow areas for toddlers. Giant skylights bathe the parks in natural light by day; filtering systems constantly clean the water and pump in fresh air from outside. At Great Wolf, the indoor air temperature and the water are kept at a balmy 84°F, says CEO John Emery...
...We’ve never really done this well in regionals, especially in doubles,” Anderson said after the win. The win at the Eastern Regionals earned Anderson and O’Riain a berth in the prestigious 16-team field of the ITA National Indoor Championships, where they lost to the No. 2 seeded team in the second round. “I’m pretty satisfied [with the fall season],” O’Riain said at the time. “It is a bit disappointing to end it like that...
Three years ago, rookie runner Mary Serdakowski stood atop the podium at the Ivy League championships after winning the 60-meter hurdles at the indoor Heptagonals. This past February, Serdakowski returned to the top with a victory that helped propel the Harvard women’s track and field team to a fourth-place finish at the meet. In 2003, she won the event as a freshman, and this year, she beat out two runners from Cornell. Her qualifying time had been the fastest in the event, and her 8.85 in the finals proved as good...