So my girlfriend and I surprised our four boys, we pack while they were at school and the next day took them for a car ride. A couple of hours later we arrived at Great Wolf. They were so surprised! We all had such a good time. My little one ran himself ragged trying to keep up with the older boys.
We spent most of our time in the water…
“The toddler jet ski area”
“The toddler slide”
“The wave pool”
“The Giant Dumping Bucket and Climbing Structure with Slides!”
“Climbing across the lillypads”
There were also three huge slides that I rode with the older boys, including the six story Howling Tornado!
It was amazing! We all had such a good time.
The boys also got to play a Magic Quest game where we bought them a magic wand and they could go around the hotel on different quests and adventures. They would wave their wand and random things would activate and move or talk to them. Like they had statues of wolves and bears that looked normal, but when you would wave your wand at it the eyes would light up and it would howl or talk to you. Or there was a bear skin rug up on one wall and when you would wave your wand at it it’s eyes would light up and it was tell you “your wand is ‘bearly’ working”. Then there were all kinds of pictures and books that would talk to you and help you to find jewels or secrets and you could go fight a dragon. There was this room you would only get into with a secret code and inside was a lady dressed as a fair madien and she would help the kids fight a dragon on a huge screen as big as one wall of the room. The kids loved it! They ran all over the hotel. On one quest my son had to go to the first floor to find the picture with the wolf in the stars, come back to the second floor map then go back to the first floor to active the telescope, then go back to the second floor map, before going to the fifth floor to find the star ruin, and back to the second floor map and so on. They were so tired! It was great.
On top of swimming, sliding, questing we did get to sneak in something to eat which was great too. We had smores fondue and they gave my older son a free meal and a cup cake and even had all the staff sang to him because his birthday is this month. (next weekend) And then we went to story time (with a Dr. Suess theme my youngest son’s favorite!) and enjoyed huge animatronic area that sang a song to the kids and told them a story of a little boy who got lost in the woods and how the indian lady and the animals helped him.
Even the trees sang and danced by shaking their trunks, it was kind of cute. My little one loved it. He woke up at 3:50am the next morning so I took him out of our room so he didn’t wake everyone else up. We walked down to the lobby where this was and he was bound and determined we to watch it again. (unfortunately for him they didn’t have another show again for another six hours).
We stayed until dinner time the next day and finally left for home after a whole lot more swimming and questing. The boys were all so tired. My littlest made it far enough to get some chicken nuggets and then he passed out and only woke up when we got home to have some milk and a cookie and then was back out again. This was so good for them!
Next is this really nice merino, microfibre and cashmere yarn in purple which as soon as I find a pattern for I think will be one of my next projects for me. Then I got some candy which honestly I hid in my theater room (candy has been my downfall with Halloween).
