Great Wolf Lodge

We surprised the girls with a trip to Great Wolf Lodge last week. I was so excited to surprise them! They had heard of it before but didn't really understand what it was. So it was exciting to surprise them. We walked into the place which they knew was our hotel. They had giant windows showing the water park area and the girls mouths just dropped! It was so funny to see. They loved watching the 1,000 gallon bucket fill up and then dump on the park. 

After we checked in we went to our room  where there was another surprise for the girls. We had gotten one of the log cabin rooms. The girls thought it was so cool to have their own place to sleep. That is actually the only picture I got while at the lodge. Neither one of us carried our phones around for pictures for obvious kids vs. water vs. phone reasons. So instead of pictures I have funny stories. 

Bumpkin- 

Bumpkin was drama this trip. Not that it is anything different then normal but everything had a production. Some of it pretty funny, like her reaction when we walked in and saw the waterpark, some of it not so much. She is currently 49 inches tall. The younger water slides say they are for 48 inches and shorter. Luckily nobody measured he or called her out on it because she loves those and wouldn't try the bigger ones. And I mean wouldn't try. She would walk clear up to the top of the tube stairs with daddy and Troublemaker (I was in the hotel room for naptime) but wouldn't go down the slide. She was scared of how high it was (even though she was up there) and then she was scared of the slide being enclosed. Etc.  So then they tried to get her to go on the body slides because they weren't enclosed or as high but she was scared of those for some reason as well. 

Troublemaker- 

Troublemaker on the other hand went on every slide she was big enough to ride. She even got to the point where she was going up the line and down the stairs by herself. (I'm not sure if I am more impressed with her being comfortable doing that or with daddy for letting her go by herself. Ha). 

Mimi- 

Mimi provided a variety of entertainment on the trip. She liked parts of the water park but really wasn't comfortable with a lot of it yet. She loved just walking around the little pool or the pool edges. 

However, she was hilarious outside the pool. First, we were in our room setting some ground rules for leaving the room, the pool, etc. we had just gotten done telling the girls they couldn't open the door without an adult right there. We were packing our swim bag when we heard the door open and looked up to see Mimi leaving. We asked who opened the door and when neither one of the big girls confessed we swore we wouldn't leave until one of them did. We even demonstrated that Mimi couldn't open the door herself. Daddy asked her multiple times to open the door and she tried but didn't. So since nobody confessed we sat down to wait. That was when Mimi got bored and opened the door herself and left! We were all rolling with laughter. 

That night we has put the kids to bed and Mimi was having trouble. We brought the pack n play just in case and had put it on the open floor in the cabin area. The other two were passed out but we knew Mimi was still awake. Then all of a sudden the lights in their room started going on and off. Somehow Mimi had gotten out of her pack n play (which she had never done before) and was playing around in the room. So I ended up moving the pack n play out of the cabin so she would go to bed. 

Daddy- 

I'm surprised daddy didn't have a heart attack while we were in the pool area. Anyone who knows daddy will understand this but his overprotective safety issues were in full gear! He even said to me "this is the perfect place to come in three more years". Ha. 

We really didn't do much of the extras this time. With naptime and needing to adhere to some sort of bedtime we didn't think we had much extra time. We looked into the Magic Quest but were told it took 4 ish hours. We saved that got when we can stay up later and/or stay longer. We did have fun in the arcade though. 

We had a great time and he girls keep asking to go back. We bought a groupon so it was well worth the money for us. We look forward to doing it again in the future!