For Christmas this year, my Dad got all his children and grandchildren a night at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, TX for January 4. Most of the crew headed to my sister Jamie's house on January 3 to sleepover since she's not too far away. We decided to sleep at home on Thursday night and meet up with everyone at the lodge on Friday around 1 pm.
We headed out around 9 am and grabbed lunch in Grapevine and rolled into the lodge right before 1. Your rooms aren't guaranteed to be ready before 4 pm, but you can head to the water park starting at 1. Most of our rooms were ready when we got there though, so we dropped our bags off and changed into our suits and hit up the waterpark from about 1:30 to 4:30. Candy and cousin Molly each spent some time napping with Grandpa and Sally and we all had a blast.
Then we took a break in our rooms for a bit and my brother-in-law picked up pizza, drinks, and salad and all 22 of us piled into one of the rooms for a crazy dinner. I took Megan and Brooke back to the water from 6:15 until about 7:30 (Candy and Dan stayed upstairs) and then when I got back Dan headed out to ride the rides with my brother until the park closed at 9 pm. The kids and I went down for story time in the lobby before bed.
We managed to sleep in a little (for our kids) on Saturday morning until about 7 am and met up with the group around 8 am to be treated to a yummy breakfast buffet at the hotel restaurant compliments of my Dad. And then...back to the water! We played and played until we were all played out.
Candy again spent some time napping with Sally (thanks Sally!) and her favorite part was either wading in the wave pool or being in the hot tub. Dan and I would take turns being with the kids and riding the rides. Brooke was so tired out that she fell asleep IN A TUBE, IN the wavepool around noon. It was hilarious. But unfortunately, with so much water, there's not much camera action. So you'll just have to picture it. I scooted her to the shore and let her sleep there for about 20 minutes until Dan stopped by and scooped her up to let her sleep on a bed of towels near our stuff. She slept for over an hour.
By 2:30, we were ready for a break from the water, so we bid farewell to the Lodge and headed out. It was so fun to be with my family and such a fun place to stay!
My brother Tyler was in our room--here they are enjoying some Saturday morning cartoons.
The whole group in the lodge "treehouse" on Saturday morning.
