We made some really great memories as a family.
We headed up north on Thursday (roughly 2 hours away) to the Great Wolf Lodge.
It's a hotel with a humongous indoor water park. Fun with a capital F!
We decided to be thrifty, so we brought up Lunchables for lunch, a pizza and soda for dinner, Oreos for dessert, popcorn and hot cocoa for a snack just before bedtime, and cereal and milk for breakfast.
We were able to check in three hours earlier than expected, which was super sweet. We spent about four hours in the water park after we dropped off our bags and ate lunch in our room. Then we headed back to our room for dinner, a slight rest, and to warm up in front of the fireplace. Then it was off to the water slides again.
Elsa and I came back early to the room Thursday night, as she had a bit of an accident and cut open her eyelid and just below her eye. She got a free stuffed animal out of it from the first-aide person.Chris, Aeva, Rhaevyn and Myles lasted until the water park closed at 9:00 pm.
The next morning we were up early to eat and then we headed off to play in the water some more. The little ones and I played for an hour and then went up to get ready to leave. The big ones stayed a half hour more.
While it is possible to actually hang around the entire day until the park closes at 9pm, we decided that it would just be easier to call it good at 11 am. Besides Chris was beat. We got quite the work out walking up all the flights of stairs to go down the big slides.
After checking out we went to Cabela's and ate lunch at Red Robin before we headed home.
Great times, lots of giggles, smiles and laughter............Yep, it was success with a capital S!!
Sorry the pictures are a bit out of order.
Elsa enjoying just one of the four slides she was tall enough to go on.
She thought they were great fun. Sorry the video is sideways.
She kept whipping of this hat at Cabela's and yelling "yee-haw!"
Myles wanted a picture that looked like he was running
away from the Rhino.
Elsa posing like she is a Sea Lion.
These are the stairs that go to the four big water slides.
Elsa and Aeva pose after going down these slides.
Way to go, Aeva!!
She wasn't sure she wanted to attempt the slides at first,
but after trying them, she thought they were thrilling.
We had a fun themed room.
There was a small cabin like area within the room
that slept three.
Elsa's battle wounds.
She was a trooper.
Here is her stuffed animal she was given.
In the wave pool with Daddy.
Chris and Aeva warming up by the fireplace.
The kids are ready to go play in the water.
This was the view from our room on the eighth floor.
Those two slides would light up at night.
The red and yellow one is the Tornado. I think we
all (Chris, Rhaevyn and I) screamed going on that one.
Eating before playing.
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| Chris, Elsa and Rhaevyn catching some wave action. |
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