Great Wolf!

March 4-6, 2016

We gave Emily a trip to Great Wolf Lodge for Christmas this year.  She has so much stuff and she LOVES Great Wolf, so this made a great gift.  Unfortunately, we had 18"of snow the weekend we had booked the trip so we had to wait until March to go, but even that worked out ok as it was a little cheaper!

We got Emily a Kid Camp room again this year so she had her own space and she loved it.

She brought along a few friends...

We arrived just in time to grab a quick bite to eat and then hit the pool.  Emily could. not. wait.  First stop was the lazy river (her favorite).  Then it was off to hit the slides!

 We finally got her to bed about 10pm.  Finally.  The next morning we had to kill a little time in the arcade since the pools did not open until 10am.  So we put some money on the arcade card and off we went.  Em earned about 300 tickets, but opted not to use them on the "junk" they had.  Ha!  Guess we're doing something right.

By the time she used up all her credits on her arcade card, it was time to swim.  We spent the whole rest of the day swimming, floating and sliding (and sometimes freezing).  We rode every slide and went in every pool.  We even ate lunch at the pool.  Em was definitely in seventh heaven.

After a very full day of swimming fun, we got cleaned up and headed out to dinner.  We found a Cheesecake Factory just a few minutes from the hotel so that's where we went.  At first we were quoted a 60+ minute wait, but then a table opened up in the bar area (first come first served) so we grabbed it!  We all had great meals and then settled in for dessert.  Cheesecakes for mommy and daddy and fudge cake for  Emily.  I swear her cake was bigger then her!!

After dinner we headed back to the hotel for evening adventures including glow golf!

Then it was finally time to turn in for the night and unwind with a little iPad time.  We still had big plans for the morning.

The next morning we took Emily to try out MagiQuest.  She had never done it before, but she is into scavenger hunts these days so this seemed right up her alley. Unfortunately, the whole game apparently takes some 6+ hours so saving it until Sunday morning when we only had 3 hours was not a great plan, but we tried it out anyway and Emily LOVED it!  We actually all liked it and we made good progress in the time we had. We told her we  would take her to the MagiQuest in Myrtle Beach this summer, but sadly, apparently MagiQuest was sold exclusively to Great Wolf Lodge and so the location in Myrtle Beach is closed now.

  

We definitely had a good time and it turned out to be a great gift to everyone to have a whole family weekend together (even if I was freezing for 75% of it).   :-)   Great Wolf really was Great.