Wet and Wild Weekend

Two weeks ago we took the kids on an overnight trip to The Great Wolf Lodge, in Grand Mound. It is an indoor water park and hotel combo that is very family friendly. We had a great mini vacation and the kids loved being in the water. It was pretty amazing how much water The Great Wolf Lodge had splashing around everywhere.  We were constantly wet from head to toe. If you weren't getting a 1,000 gallon bucket of water dumped on your head, there was a floor geyser spraying you, or a kid operated stream of hitting you in the eye. We came to play in the water so it was all good. McKenzie was able to go on some of the big waterslides all by herself.  This kept her smiling and on the move.  Ben had plenty of water areas designed for kids his age to paddle around in.

Here's the giant bucket dumping out from the top of the slides. There is a sign that says not to hold children when the bucket was dumping because the force is so great.


McKenzie all smiles as she gets ready to launch down the slide. We can't wait until she can go on the tube slides in a year or two.


Ben investigating where all the water was coming from. I cannot believe how many times he let the water shoot him in the face.  He must have liked it.


Ben shooting water on a jet ski.  There was no way to get close to him on this thing without getting soaked.


We upgraded to a 'Kids Club' room which included a section of the room with a bunk bed for the kids. We envisioned watching a movie on our side of the room after the kids fell asleep.  Instead we had a pack 'n play for Ben that we put next McKenzie's bunk and they kept each other up for a long time until we finally had to separate them.  Then McKenzie chose to sleep on the couch in our side of the room. So that meant lights out for everyone at 9 pm. Ben stayed in the bunk area until 3 am when he wanted nothing but to lay on top of me and sleep. Needless to say it was a long night but we were up early and ready to hit the waterpark for day two.

View of the kids section of our room.


On Sunday we were at the slides right when they opened at 9 and we thought we would stay until 11:30 but Ben literally fell asleep in my arms around 10:15.  So we packed it in shortly after that headed home. Overall, it was a great weekend.  I definitely think we'll be back for another visit in a year or so when the kids are just a little bigger.

Here's McKenzie getting soaked by the bucket - so much water!