Collin: Indoor Water Park = FUN!!!

We had a great weekend at Great Wolf Lodge. After watching Collin square dance at school, we left with him to Grandma H’s house. The main reason for the trip was to drop off her car and a few more boxes. Instead of spending the night at friends or cousin’s house, I thought it would be fun to hang out at the Great Wolf Lodge when we were not working on Judy’s stuff.

When we arrived, Collin went straight to the huge window that looked out into the covered water park. There was a wave pool, lazy river, toddler area, tubes, slides, obstacle course and water basketball area. He could not wait to get in there. We did have about 2 hours before we were meeting our friends for dinner. A little inconvenient for me because I would have to do my hair again, I did not want that to stop me from the family having fun….so I joined them.

In the two hours, we did a lot. We got dumped on by the big bucket of water first. Might as well get wet as much as possible quickly. Then, we went to the wave pool. The lazy river was next before standing in line for the one of the tube rides. Collin was concerned about the ride first but settled down when he saw that all of us could fit in the large tube. I liked that too because I could see my boys having fun going down the tube ride.

We cleaned up quickly to have dinner with our friends, the Hauks. They came to us so we had dinner at the Lodge. The food was not too bad and the company was even better. Collin and J-man played games on their phones while the adults talked. Afterwards, Collin wanted to show them our room because his “room” is a cabin built within our room. He loved it and wanted to show J-man.

The next morning, we went to the cousins and took care of Judy stuff before picking up two cousins to take back with us to the Lodge and spend the day at the water park. H, B and Collin had a blast! For 5 hours, we hung out in the water park. We only stopped to have lunch and a snack.

After getting cleaned up, we meet the rest of the family to have dinner and give H and B back to their parents. Dad and I were exhausted at this point from the fun that day. We could have gone back to the hotel and slept for the rest of the night. However, it was good to have dinner with the family and catch up from December when we saw them last.

When we got back to the Lodge, it was Story Time. The kids gathered around the fire place and the animated animal section. The animals sang a few songs before Wiley, the wolf, and a helper read a story to the kids. The story was the history of the Lodge…and it was really cute. Collin wanted to back to the water park after that. It was open but only for another 30 minutes. I could not bring myself to get wet again before going to bed. Plus, I could Dad and I could barely keep our eyes open. We convinced Collin to go back to the room and watch a movie. He was the last one to fall asleep.

We left early the next morning talking about how much fun we had. The weekend was exactly what I was hoping for: 1) lots of time with Collin and Dad, 2) Fun at the water park and 3) Catching up with friends and family.