Best Vacation Ever Part 2

The next best thing to having slaves come for two weeks and do all my chores is go on vacation close to home.  Santa brought us one night at Great Wolf Lodge for Christmas.  20 minutes from our house.  And while it was a little crazy at times and Greg ended up taking Henry home at 1 am because he refused to sleep, Santa may need to bring us 2 nights next year.  In door water park in the middle of winter and the kids having their own "room" in the hotel.  Yes please.  The only thing that made it unpleasant was 1. the price of everything (I paid $5 for oatmeal for Henry), and 2. we had to check out of our room before we headed to the water park so things got a little weird with all our stuff.  Both of those things would have been remedied by staying two nights.

I loved it.  The kids loved it.  Greg had to work.  Yet another hazard of being your own boss.

 We checked in around 2 on Thursday and had to check out our room.  We stayed in the "Wolf Den" room so the kids had their own little section with a TV and bunk bed.  It made staying in a hotel with 3 kids so much easier.  Then we changed, left the camera in the room, and headed down to the water park.

After some swimming we hit up the arcade and then left the resort to get dinner across the street because the food there was expensive and gross.

 

Then Greg had to go to church (I guess there is a downside to vacationing 20 minutes from home) so I took the kids down to the nightly creepy animatronic show and story time.

 Henry was crazy tired from only napping on my shoulder for like 30 minutes at the water park.

Then to bed.  We actually left the kids in the room and Greg and I went on a mini ice cream date in the lobby.  Then Greg took Henry home because he refused to sleep.  Plus of vacationing 20 minutes from home.

In the morning, I bought the kids over-priced donuts and milk for breakfast.

Then we went to the arts and craft room where Rex yet again informed me that I'm a bad mom for not letting him color a super ugly $20 t-shirt.  I gave him one of the free coloring sheets.  Alice got her face painted for free.  

Then Greg left again to go to work.  The kids whined and complained.  I threatened to go home but the Robins in me couldn't do it--I had paid to be there all day, dang it we were going to stay.  So we went back to the water park and the kids had a great time, Henry slept on my shoulder again.  When we got tired we left and where home in time for left-over dinner.

Some tips for next time:

1. Bring cash and only spent cash.  That Dave Ramsey knows what he's talking about.  We set our budget ahead of time, took cash and when the money was gone, it was gone.  Great way not to over spend.

2. Bring food.  There fridges and microwaves in the room.  No need to waste money on gross food.  Save it for a few fun treats.

3. Stay two nights.

So, Dear Santa, Next year for Christmas, I want 2 nights at Great Wolf Lodge.