Article: A COOL LURE; Water rats forgo lakeside fun for the thrills and spills of local water parks.(FREETIME)

If you're trying to find Marla Nordseth and her daughter, Katie, on a hot summer day, look no further than Cascade Bay.

The Nordseths have season passes to Eagan's splashy $7 million water park, and already this summer they've whiled away several afternoons frolicking around the sprinklers and fountains in the shallow pool and braving the twists, turns and drops of four water slides.

"I like the green slide because it goes fast," said Katie Nordseth, 9, referring to the Typhoon, a slide on which riders shoot down, twisting through an enclosed tube and plunging into the pool below. Her mother said she prefers the calmer Lazy River, a leisurely float around the pool on ...

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