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Foster Children from Promises 2 Kids’ Camp Connect are First Water Park Guests May 28!
Fifty children from Promises 2 Kids’ Camp Connect will be reunited with their siblings during a once-in-a-lifetime play date as the very first guests of the new LEGOLAND® Water Park. The children have been separated from their siblings due to placement in the foster care system. They will have the world’s first LEGO® themed Water Park entirely to themselves for nearly an hour before the Park opens to the public.
On Friday, May 28, 2010 at 9:30 a.m., children from Promises to Kids are welcomed into LEGOLAND Water Park as the first official guests.
10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.: LEGOLAND Water Park is open to the Public for the first time.
Guests will explore eight areas of the 5.5 acre water wonderland including Orange Rush, a family tube slide where up to four people can ride together down a 312-foot long curving track on an 11-foot in diameter half pipe; Twin Chasers, two side-by-side enclosed red tube slides that stretch nearly 130 feet, Splash Out, an open body slide that invites guests to slide 240 feet and “splash out” into the water below; Joker Soaker, a fun interactive platform in the wade pool where kids can aim water cannons at each other as a LEGO jester model tells jokes and pours 350 gallons of water down upon them; a one-of-a-kind concept, Build-A-Raft River, where kids customize their own raft made of soft LEGO bricks before floating down a lazy river; Kid Creek, a lazy river built with younger kids in mind and DUPLO® Splash Safari, a water play area designed especially for toddlers with three small slides and interactive DUPLO creatures including an alligator, polar bear and an elephant.
Camp Connect San Diego is a partnership of Promises2Kids, County of San Diego, and United Way of San Diego County and provides an opportunity to strengthen family ties and create memories for brothers and sisters in foster care who live apart. Research shows that siblings in foster care who remain connected have better outcomes in school and in their placement. This same research also indicates an increased sense of belonging, identity, confidence, problem solving, self esteem, greater connections to their family of origin, and a decreased sense of loss and trauma. For more information on Promises 2 Kids and Camp Connect San Diego, visit www.Promises2Kids.org.
