Friday night Nana took Lauren, Ben, Hadley, Kevin & I to Great Wolf Lodge and we had SO MUCH FUN! We LOVED it, not a single complaint!
We didn't waste a second, we changed asap and went straight to the 84 degree water park! They thought of everything, had fun activities for all ages.
As you can imagine, Ben LOVED this part!
Hadley Jane having fun!
Ben & Mama
After about 3 hours of splashing, swimming, climbing, jumping, and sliding we had worked up quite the appetite! We went to one of the fun restaurants in the lodge and Lauren was beyond thrilled because they had gluten free hamburger buns and french fries. She kept saying, "Great Wolf Lodge is the perfect name for this place because it really is so great." She then said that I should get a job there and she'd work with me so we can eat gf buns and play at the water park all the time. Pretty much a perfect life:)
The kid's meals come with wolf ears, so cute!
silly kids
Then we got to go see Santa and Mrs. Claus. The girls were so glad because they had both forgotten to tell him they wanted magic fairy dust. But later Lauren said to me, "Mom, I thought Santa could remember lots of stuff." I said, "right, he can." To which she replied, "Well then why did he ask me what I wanted, I've already told him everything but the fairy dust." I told her he was just double checking to make sure she hadn't changed her mind and she bought it...crazy to think we most likely only have a year or two left of her believing.
Then they have pajama story time in the lobby (dinner took too long and we didn't have time to go change into our pj's which really bothered me because I wanted them in their cute Christmas pj's, but I let it go;)).
The story time stage with talking creatures.
Daddy & Benny
The girls trying to catch the snow, so cute!
The "snow" at the end of story time.
Back in our awesome room coloring before bed. The room was amazing, 2 bedrooms, 2 bath and very cozy fire place.
A super tired Nana, Mom, & Dad.
Had to get a Christmas jammy pic!
Getting ready for round 2 of the water park. We were down there by 9AM right when it opened on Saturday!
This is the view of the main lodge room, it was decorated so pretty!
View from above the water park.
The wave pool, which was SO fun! There was also a cool pool with different floating animals that you could climb on, the little kid area with a couple of fun slides, 4 really fun tube rides for "big" kids (Lauren went on all but 1 and only because she didn't meet the height requirement, the girl is brave!). I also skipped the "scary" one because I was too chicken, but my mom and Kevin said it was fun.
So long Great Wolf Lodge, we can't wait to come back again!
4 comments:
Wow, it does sound like a wonderful place! And Lauren is just too smart to ask about Santa. I really hope they believe for a lot longer.
I've never heard of this place, but wow! It does look like the perfect weekend for kids. Lucky grandkids to have such a wonderful Nana! Does she do old lady weekends too :-)
And you might be surprised how long they cling to Santa. "My" boys (the little guys I used to nanny for) were still trying hard to believe last year when they were 9. Everyone knows you get better presents when you believe!
Thanks for all of the great pictures and descriptions! I hear so many people, mostly my first graders, talking about how they love Great Wolf Lodge. Since, we will probably never go there (now that my boys are all grown), it was really fun to see what it is all about!
Miss Jane STILL has not stopped talking about her amazing time there. You guys are the best. And Nana...she's a superhero around these parts.
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