Great Time

We're back from a really great time at the Great Wolf Lodge. If you're looking for a fun family get-away I highly recommend it. We'd go back in a heartbeat. It's a bit pricier than your average hotel but there's a lot that makes it worthwhile. Pack your own food though! The food there is ridiculously expensive.

I'm glad Darcy had been in swimming lessons before we went. Her previous nervousness around water seems to be completely gone. It only took her a few minutes to get comfortable and she had a blast! She did the kiddie slides the first night, but by the next morning was wanting to go down the big slides (she wasn't allowed). She also loved the wave pool. We did find one family slide we could take her down with us and after we discovered that she didn't want to do much else.

She loved having her own little cabin in the hotel room. Of course, this is how we found her in the middle of the night one night!

Nick and I had a great time there too. We each took turns taking care of the kids while the other one got to do some of the big slides. I also got to do something I've always wanted to try, which is sitting in an outdoor hot tub when there's snow on the ground. The good way about how they do it is that you get in the hot water inside and then head outside when you're already warm. Now that's thinking! I loved it. It was also pretty cool to be in the waterpark which is always kept at 84 F while watching the snow come down outside.

Darcy also loved that they had a story time before bedtime each night and both nights we were there they read Robert Munsch books. All the kids sit on the floor during story time and at the end they wind up with the big "Great Wolf Howl" and everyone stands for that. The kids in front of Darcy were pretty tall and she couldn't see during the howl part so she just walked up and stood at the front beside the storyteller guy. Nick and I were laughing to kill ourselves at the back with the other parents, but we couldn't get close enough to her to get her to get back with the other kids. No one said anything, so she stayed up there until the end. What a nut.

We spent some time in Niagara Falls on Friday before heading to my parents' house to celebrate my birthday with my family. All in all a great family vacation!