This weekend started out slow. Friday we just sat around like lumps on a log. I think I may have cleaned but it was really uneventful. Saturday was a very busy day. I went to the Relief Society birthday luncheon at church. It was really neat! I was impressed at the program they put on and had a lot of fun with Shanah and Cassie(we all carpooled together). Then, I met Jon at his parents and we went on the hunt for candy bars for a shower that I was helping out with that afternoon. We have since figured out that they just don't make some of the same candy or gum like they used to. Anywho, I went to my friend Andrea's baby shower. It was a lot of fun seeing her family again and we were able to see pictures of her new baby boy Zion. He's such a cutie! He comes home on the 18th. I can't wait to meet him in person. He came out with more hair than I could grow in my first 4 years of life. They already have to give him a haircut before he comes home. After I came home from the shower, we put our swimming suits on and headed to the water park. But this isn't any normal water park...it's the indoor water park at the Great Wolf Lodge! It was really odd putting your swim suit on when it was 40 degrees outside but inside they keep it at a nice 85 degrees, although the water is much colder than that.
We took a few pictures on the camera phone but will post more later when I get the pics from mom's camera. This you can see the kiddie area to your right and in the back center is the wave pool. The kiddie area only gets to maybe 3 feet deep and has slides and fake dolphins to ride on. It's really designed for children. It also has a kiddie hot tub which with the adult hot tub on the other side of the park.
This is just to the left of the kiddie area. (By the way we are standing at a huge floor to ceiling glass window in the lobby. It's neat to be able to watch all the people running around having fun. This is like a playground but full of places to get wet. At the top is a bucket that will eventully fill up and topple over getting everyone down below very wet! Behind the playground is the lazy river, the deeper adult swimming area, the cyclone tube which is like the one at Hurricane Harbor but inside, The Vortex, you go down a tube into this huge green circle thing where you are stuck to the side going around on your tube until you eventually make it to the middle and go down the tube, and then you have the regular yellow tube that is like most tubing events at a waterpark. I didn't ride any of these due to pregnancy and the million steps it takes to get to the top but Jon did and he had a great time!
This is to the left of the playground where you can see the yellow tube and the green & white vortex behind it and the adult hot tub. The white tents are places you can have set aside for parties. Inside the lodge is like living in a small city. They have 3 restaurants, a cafe, starbucks, an arcade, a gift shop to purchase clothing or meds, and they have a MagiQuest for the kids. The MagiQuest you purchase a wand (like in Harry Potter) and when they are not swimming or in the arcade they can go around the entire hotel (8 floors) and find the pictures and stuff that they can point their wand at find clues to the next picture or treasure chest, etc. They also have a spa and a Starbucks. What more could you need! Well I could go on for days about how neat and fun it is but I suppose I will stop here. But it really is neat and worth the money.
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We took a few pictures on the camera phone but will post more later when I get the pics from mom's camera. This you can see the kiddie area to your right and in the back center is the wave pool. The kiddie area only gets to maybe 3 feet deep and has slides and fake dolphins to ride on. It's really designed for children. It also has a kiddie hot tub which with the adult hot tub on the other side of the park.
This is just to the left of the kiddie area. (By the way we are standing at a huge floor to ceiling glass window in the lobby. It's neat to be able to watch all the people running around having fun. This is like a playground but full of places to get wet. At the top is a bucket that will eventully fill up and topple over getting everyone down below very wet! Behind the playground is the lazy river, the deeper adult swimming area, the cyclone tube which is like the one at Hurricane Harbor but inside, The Vortex, you go down a tube into this huge green circle thing where you are stuck to the side going around on your tube until you eventually make it to the middle and go down the tube, and then you have the regular yellow tube that is like most tubing events at a waterpark. I didn't ride any of these due to pregnancy and the million steps it takes to get to the top but Jon did and he had a great time!
This is to the left of the playground where you can see the yellow tube and the green & white vortex behind it and the adult hot tub. The white tents are places you can have set aside for parties. Inside the lodge is like living in a small city. They have 3 restaurants, a cafe, starbucks, an arcade, a gift shop to purchase clothing or meds, and they have a MagiQuest for the kids. The MagiQuest you purchase a wand (like in Harry Potter) and when they are not swimming or in the arcade they can go around the entire hotel (8 floors) and find the pictures and stuff that they can point their wand at find clues to the next picture or treasure chest, etc. They also have a spa and a Starbucks. What more could you need! Well I could go on for days about how neat and fun it is but I suppose I will stop here. But it really is neat and worth the money.
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Hey you! I found your blog of Kristy's cute! And Great Wolf looks fun! We have been thinking of taking the kids there...we didn't know you could just go for the day! Looks like a good time!
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