Great Wolf Lodge

We randomly decided to go to Great Wolf Lodge.  It's only about an hour away so it wasn't too bad to get there.  We only stayed one night, all of 25 hours there but we were EXHAUSTED by 2:30 Friday and ready to head home. 

 

We played in the water park then decided to take a break for a little while.  We decided to let the kids have a go at "Magi Quest".  Kayda and Dillon LOVED it.  Carson enjoyed it most of the time but quickly got tired.  It is a fun little interactive scavenger hunt.  You have to find certain things in a certain order and it demands MANY trips up and down stairs. 

After a little while with our whole family doing the quests together Kayda and Dillon were ready to take it on alone.  Kayda would read the clues and off they would go!

This place is a money pit!!! There are FAR too many fun things to do.  Not the least of which was the arcade.  The kids had a blast!

We finally took a break to go get dinner.  The kids were very reluctant to leave the hotel.  Carson balanced himself on Daddy while we were waiting for our food.  It was too funny to resist.  Sorry for the lack of quality photos.  I wasn't about to bring the good camera for this trip!

 

After dinner we headed back to the water park.  We finished up just before it closed, headed back to the room, showered and got in pajamas.  Then Kayda and Dillon took off for more Magi Quest.  They had my phone and had fun randomly calling us to tell us things or get help when they got stuck.  Carson cracked us up.  He found the Bible.  Asked us why it was in the room, then laid down just like this on the bed as if he were ACTUALLY reading it!  We finally dragged Kayda and Dillon in at 10.  Then they were off again at 8 in the morning.  They finished the entire challenge and were SO excited!

 

We, of course, spent more time at the water park.  From about 9:30 to 2:30.  Kayda and Dillon were tall enough to ride anything on their own so they often took off on their own.  Carson loved the "little kid area" and the hot tub.  He eventually got worn out so Daddy took him to the arcade again.   Kayda and Dillon were determined to ride the "Howlin Tornado".  It is essentially a water slide that drops into a sideways funnel.  You get a good long drop, which occasional sent you into the air, then you swoop back and forth until you reach the bottom of the funnel.  Kayda and Dillon's faces were hilarious!  Their faces were frozen in what looked like terror and yet they would ride it over and over again.  They both said their favorite water slide was the "River Canyon Run"  it didn't have any crazy drops but you could still have 2-5 people on the inner tube.  Carson was able to go down the slides that didn't require an inner tube.  He only rode them a handful of times but by the last ride he would come around the last corner smiling.  The first few times he would be splayed out in what looked to be a futile attempt to slow himself down! 

 

On the way home we decided to stop by cabela's for a quick visit.  The kids have always enjoyed seeing the fish and the animals that are posed on a mountain. 

 

Carson fell asleep as we were getting to Cabela's so I don't have his picture but I caught the other two!  I guess they were more exhausted than they let on!