Great Wolf Lodge

A couple of weekends ago, Sarah took Erika, Laurel, and me to Great Wolf Lodge.  It was one of the very best vacations I have been on and I'm sure the girls think it was the best they have had as well!

After a quick look at the lobby, which is really cool and has a bunch of stuff for kids to do....huge coloring sheets set up, an arcade, and a bunch of stuffed wolves and bears and other animals to look at......we went to our super fun themed room to change and jump in the water!

My kids adore the water, which is really great for their water-loving parents, so they were looking forward to getting in the pool as soon as possible.  Laurel showed us her very special supermodel pose.

It was tricky taking pictures while in the water, so they are blurry, but this is Erika coming down the water slide.  I think she rode it repeatedly 5 or 6 times.  Aunt Sarah also got to ride the slide the same number of times as she would take Erika up to the top, then have to come down herself!  Laurel was too short to enjoy the water slides, but that was okay because she loved hanging out in the kiddie pool section and "swimming".  Swimming for her meant bending over and putting her hands in the water and walking back and forth across the pool.  She doesn't like getting water in her eyes.  The kiddie section had a bunch of jet ski things that shot water out of them so she liked sitting on those and squirting me. 

Erika was also brave enough to perform this maneuver where she grabbed onto the rope bridge then walked across the pool on floating lily pads.  It looked really hard since the lily pads would move once you stepped on them, but she made it all the way across the pool! 

The girls and Sarah in the kid section.

We would come back to our "Kid Kamp" room to have snacks and rest between hours of enjoying the pool.

After a busy day of swimming, the girls were pretty wiped out and went right to sleep in their bunk beds.

Donuts for breakfast the next morning before swimming again.

At night, they had story time and a song session in the main lobby.  The girls really liked it! 

Enjoying the show, "There's Nothing to be Scared of in the Forest".  To which Sarah and I then came up with a list of multiple things to be afraid of if ever lost in the forest.

Erika in the lobby, looking in the water park at the giant, 1000-gallon bucket of water dumping.  I stood under it at one point while it was dumping.  Bad idea.  It really hurt my head!

And, a hula hoop contest in the lobby!

I loved the Great Wolf Lodge not only for the water park, which was amazing, but because they had a bunch of other fun things for kids to do while staying there.  We were never bored.  It was a really really great vacation.  I am super thankful that Matt stayed home with Levi, as he would have been a little difficult to handle in the water park, but I am looking forward to going back with him when he is older!