We got there on Friday night and managed to hold off the water park until after dinner and b-day presents. Then we enjoyed the water park from 6:00 until 9:00. It was a lot of fun! For those of you that don't know about the Great Wolf Lodge, it is a gigantic indoor waterpark inside a hotel. There is a four-story interactive treehouse water fort with slides, suspension bridges, spray stations and soaker buckets. The biggest of the soaker buckets is a 1,000-gallon tipper that sits atop Fort Mackenzie. Every few minutes, the warning bell clangs, and the bucket begins to spill over the roof and onto anyone standing below.
The favorites for our kiddos were the wave pool (watch out for the tubes!) and the crooked creak. We stayed until the park closed, and then returned to the room for some mindless t.v. and some rest. In the morning, we enjoyed powdered donuts, chocolate milk, and honey buns in our room (totally worth the cost savings!) and then returned to the waterpark. We did some tube slides and spent a lot of time in the wave pool and the crooked creek again. Despite the fact that we could stay the whole day, we manged to bribe the kids with a trip to Fuddruckers and left by 2:00. Ethan's poor eyes were sooooo red from the chlorine and Kelsey had a run in with a tube in the wave pool that left her with a nice scrape, so we were relieved when they took us up on the bribe!
All in all, it was a really good time! I am gearing up for them to be out of school. There last day is June 3rd. Cannon is in school a bit longer and won't be out till the end of June. Then I will have a full house until they all go back to school in August.
