Super Fun Indoor Water Fun!

What a great, fun, exhausting day the kids and I had! There is a new resort that opened up ten minutes from our house. You may have heard of them as they are a chain- The Great Wolf Lodge. They have a huge indoor waterpark that is free to their guests upon staying at the hotel. I researched it extensively when it opened to figure out how we could go enjoy the fun, and I was bummed to discover that we either had to know someone staying there or rent a room ourselves, and the rooms weren't cheap! Well, lucky for us we DID know someone staying there! Some friends of ours from Georgia came this week and stayed at the resort. We still had to pay for a guest pass, but since my kiddos are little, it was worth it as I only had to pay for myself and all three of us got in! They had a ton of things to do for Katelynn's age. She wasn't very comfortable at first and hated the water spraying in her face so she stuck with a few things that kept her water free, but by the end of the night she was purposely soaking herself and having a blast! Sadly, by the time Katelynn REALLY started enjoying herself, Justin was ready for bed and not liking getting sprayed in every direction by water as we walked around the kid part of the park. It really was a great time though. We were there for over three hours in the morning, came home for naps and went back for another three hours or more until it was past bedtime and we had to hurry home!

These waverunners were something Katelynn enjoyed all day. This was her first try on them, and she was a little taken back by the spray when she pulled the trigger, but she loved them. By the end of the night, she was walking behind that spray from the back TRYING to soak herself.
My two water babies taking a break. You aren't required to have life vests on them so I just carried Justin without one, but I had Katelynn wear one since it was just me trying to keep my eye on two kids. I wish I had better pictures of this. They had a wavepool, and Katelynn really enjoyed moving around the water in the tube. All of my pictures of her laughing and running in it were blurry (darn camera- it's getting returned tomorrow for a different point and shoot).Not a great picture but since it was just the kids and I, it was really hard to get pictures and almost impossible to get ones with Justin in it. They stop the waves every five minutes and let the water be still. During those times, I would let Justin ride with Katelynn on the intertube. He would just watch her and laugh and laugh. It was so cute!
Spray Fun! In this area, they have a huge bucket of water that sprays from the top of a big water structure every few minutes. When we first arrived, Katelynn wouldn't even go near the sprays because she was so scared of the bucket. (It would ring a bell before it poured so you could get out of the way if you wanted). A few minutes before we left, she was not even leaving when the bell started ringing and at the last minute, she decided to stand at the edge of the area and get a little wet from it. And here they are ready to head home... well, Katelynn wasn't really ready but it was bedtime and Justin was past ready!