Great Wolf Lodge

We spent Easter weekend at Great Wolf Lodge and kicked off spring break in style.







We got to Great Wolf around dinner time on Friday evening and quickly changed into our suits and hit the water park.  Both girls were a little timid at first.  In fact, Sophia never did get to ride on a slide.  She was too tall to ride the baby slides and she was too scared to even try the big people slides...which lots of kids younger than her were enjoying.  Will and I took turns a few times letting the other ride a slide or two.  Lilly loved the little kid area including the two little slides that were her size.  Once Sophia discovered the hot tub and got over her fear of the hot water she realized it was her favorite part of the whole trip.

She and I got to spend a lot of one-on-one time together which was really nice. Lilly was so exhausted on Saturday afternoon she asked to go back to the room and take a nap.  Will went with her while Sophia and I explored and played lots of games at the arcade.

We teamed up to play Wheel of Fortune and Sophia's spin landed us 150 tickets per correct letter guessed....in the end we won over 800 tickets on that one game.  Before we left we cashed in all of our tickets and Sophia and Lilly both got stuffed animals - like we need any more of those!

We also ran into the Easter Bunny almost by accident and happened to be so lucky to be second in line to say hello to him while we were wandering around.  We also checked out the MagicQuest game they have and decided against it.  THANK GOODNESS!

 After we saw the Easter Bunny we stood in a much longer line for Sophia to get her face painted like a wolf.  Can you tell?

Before we went back to see if Lilly was awake we checked out the kids spa and Sophia was literally begging me to take her in to get "all of it" - as she called it. When we got back to our toom I called to make her an appointment and when I found out it was going to cost $79.99 for a kids mani/pedi I decided to not follow through with the reservation!  Holy Smokes! I don't even pay that much.

Our camera happens to be water proof....so I was able to get some fun shots of Sophia underwater.

There was a pool dedicated to playing games and was filled with balls and hoops and obstacle courses.  We played monkey in the middle.  Will and Lilly were a team.

On Saturday night we went to the lobby for a spring break dance party and Sophia was out on the "dance floor" doing all the line dances.  Her favorite, and the one that actually got her on the dance floor, is Cotton Eye Joe.  She's really good at it.  Her gym teacher taught it to all the first graders.

On Sunday morning the girls were up bright and early to see if the Easter Bunny had any success in finding us since we weren't at home.  The girls were so worried they left a note for him at our house telling him we were at Great Wolf Lodge.  Of course, he found them!

After thoroughly dissecting all of their loot we went to the lobby again for the Wolf Walk followed by a 5,000-egg egg hunt.

 Overall a great time was had by all!