"Just Another Day in Paradise": Our trip to the Great Wolf Lodge

Today was finally the day for the Great Wolf Lodge trip! Sanders had been counting down the days he was so excited! He ran down the stairs that morning and the first thing out of his mouth was "is today the day we are going to the water park?" He couldn't wait any longer!

We left early that morning and got to Dallas around 1pm. The Kendricks rode with us and Holly and Paige rode in the other car. Sanders and Hannah did great in the car. They watched half of Bug's Life and then Enchanted. Once we got to the Grapevine area we stopped at Chik Fil A for a quick lunch and then headed to Great Wolf for a day of fun on the water slides! The kids were jumping for joy they were so excited. Once we checked in we quickly changed into our swimsuits and headed for the slides. They measured all the kids when we first got to the entrance to see what slides they could ride and poor little Sanders was the only one who wasn't tall enough to ride the big slides. Thankfully he didn't catch on to that - he said "mommy they told me i could ride all the rides right?" so i said "yes honey, you can ride them all" - and that is all he needed to hear. We started with the small slides but they quickly moved to the "middle slides" which even the mommies took a ride on. We all got water dumped on us but that was part of the fun! Next we moved on to the lily pads which Sanders LOVED! We did those a few times. He was a little frog getting across them. Cameron, Holly, Paige and Grant went and rode the bigger slides while SK and I took the kids to the outside water park. It was almost more fun than the inside! Maybe because they had frozen daiquiris for the adults but they also had an entry level pool with lots of fun things for the kids to do. They ran around and played great together! Hannah did have a little fall and scraped her chin but the lifeguards patched her up with a band-aid and she was right back out there.

After 5 hours of the slides, we decided to head up to the room to shower and get ready for dinner. Sanders and Hannah watched cartoons in their "Kid Kamp" bunk beds while SK and I got ready. They needed a little rest since they had been going strong all day.

We all met up at the Rainforest Cafe which was the perfect place to entertain the kids while we ate. They had animals, fish tanks, waterfalls etc around our table that kept them intrigued. That place does it right! They had a guy come around to our table that made balloons animals for all the kids and they had blinky cups for the kids' drinks! They loved it all! We got through dinner without too much craziness and came back to the hotel. The mommies were definitely exhausted from a busy day! Somehow Sanders and Hannah didn't fall asleep until after 10pm - I guess they were on their 10th wind of the day or just excited to be sleeping on the same bunk bed but FINALLY they fell asleep!!! It had been a full day.

Their first time on the slides: