Great Wolf Lodge

On Wednesday morning we headed south to the Great Wolf Lodge. Since it was built and opened about a year ago I have been wanting to take a family trip there. Fortunately, a friend of mine organized a group rate and we quickly jumped on it. We had reservations for 1 night and we checked in around noon and were in the water park shortly after. I was really amazed at how many different attractions the water park had: a wave pool, a kiddie pool area with things to climb on and slide down and squirt, a big climbing fort that had a huge bucket on top of it that dumped 100 gallons of water every few minutes, a swimming pool with basketballs, and floating creatures to crawl on, 4 huge waterslides, and an indoor/outdoor hot tub!

On our way there we stopped off at McDonald's because the night before Jaden asked me why he has never had a Happy Meal. I was shocked! Where had he even heard of a Happy Meal (darn his peers at school). Since Todd and I felt like we had deprived him of the golden arches experience we stopped at a Micky D's on our way down south. We even let the boys go in the germ-infested play structure--and they didn't want to leave. . . what did we start?!?

Here they are hyped up on McNuggets and chocolate milk.

All my boys in our hotel room.

The first day we didn't take our camera into the water park, so here's a pic of Jaden and his buddy Kellen at dinner.

Todd and Bryson (who loved his soft-freeze ice cream).

After dinner we went to story time at the clock tower.


The next morning Bryson and I headed down to the water park around 10 while Jaden and Todd went to the arcade for a bit.

J keepin' it real

Bryson LOVED the kiddie pool area.

snack time

This picture turned out cool b/c Todd happened to catch it when there was a quick break in the waterfall.

B in the wave pool

Progression shots of J in the water circle.



Here's a pic that I took while waiting in line with Jaden to go on a waterslide.


Here's a video of J and I heading down the slide!

(Don't you feel like you were on the slide with us;)

Bryson and Todd waited at the bottom of the slide.

Another progression shot of the "BIG bucket" as Bryson frightenly calls it and continues to talk about it. . . I think he actually has dreams about it, we may have scarred him for life!




On the fort


We left Great Wolf around 3:30 because Bryson was pretty exhausted by then. Both boys took naps in the car and by the time we got up to Seattle we decided to head to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. Yum!



We had so much fun that we are definitely returning to Great Wolf Lodge again next year!