The Great Escape

This week the boys had several days off from school due to teacher conferences, and so on Wednesday we decided to surprise them and went to Great Wolf Lodge. It was the first time we had ever been there and we had so much fun. It is a resort place with a big indoor heated waterpark full of all different kinds of slides, pools, a lazy river, water basketball, a big interactive water fort, etc. It was nice to get to have some summer fun during the winter!

Little Man was a little timid at first and wouldn't even take his flip flops off. Then we progressed to him sitting on the edge of one of the pools with his feet in the water. Finally, he warmed up to the idea and there was no going back. He wanted to go on the big innertube rides, but he was too little, although he did go down a medium-sized slide with his dad. The boys were all over the fort and enjoyed all it's "booby traps" as they liked to call them, including the giant bucket of water that would fill and dump periodically with enough force to almost knock your swim trunks off. I don't know how many times they rode the slides!

We stayed in a fun "Kid Kamp" suite where the kids' area was a "tent" with bunkbeds. I admit I didn't get much sleep - I think I woke up every hour at 14 minutes past the hour for some strange reason - but it was fun nonetheless. The resort also had a story time at night for the kids in front of a giant clock where the animals come alive and talk and sing, and other fun things they could do like crafts and a big arcade. We were there for the waterpark, though, so that's what we focused on!

We stayed and played the next day until the kids were water-logged and tired. We had debated when we should leave the next day and decided to stay until the kids were done. I think the defining point came when Little J was curled up in a towel on a chair, Little Man was about to drop but determined to go into the big pool with or without adult supervision, and Big J told us "he puked a little bit in the pool." Good times!