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“Race you to the Jolly Roger River,” Mia shouted, already sprinting toward the lazy river that snaked around the park’s perimeter. Leo, still in his water shoes that squeaked on the hot concrete, scrambled after her.

“Best day ever?” Dad asked, wiping slushie off Leo’s chin. pirates cove water park lorton va

For the next hour, they floated past pirate skeletons dressed in inflatable life vests, ducked under a waterfall shaped like a kraken’s tentacle, and took turns on the “Plank Drop”—a body slide so steep that Leo screamed the entire four seconds down. At the wave pool, Mia bobbed in the deep end while Leo clung to the shallow ledge, pretending a rogue wave was a sea monster chasing him. “Race you to the Jolly Roger River,” Mia

Mia smiled. “Same time next year.”