I’ve just got back from watching Leeds United win 2-0 in the semi-final of the play-offs, which means a visit to Wales, at the Millennium stadium on the 21st May (whoo hoo!) Anyway, unfortunately tonight it is a quick blog entry on a story I found whilst reading CNN.com.

A visit to the Big Apple always promised a great adventure: Times Square, Coney Island, the Empire State Building. There was never a need for some trumped-up theme park in the land of Trump himself.

In the latest bit of suburban creep into the nation’s largest city, a family-themed water park is due before summer 2007 on a piece of Randalls Island parkland at the juncture of the East and Harlem Rivers, under the vast Triborough Bridge. The site is easily reachable by car, bus, bicycle or footbridge from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.

The city hopes to lure more than 1.3 million visitors a year to the $168 million attraction that will boast water slides rising 80 feet into the skyline. So are the five boroughs going Six Flags? A little bit, yes. And not everybody is pleased.

Read the full story on CNN.com

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