Great Wolf Lodge and SNOW!

We spent a fun filled Christmas weekend at Great Wolf Lodge, where we enjoyed the water park, the arcade, the MagiQuest scavenger hunt, and SNOW! Not only does it "snow" in the lobby several times a day (it's actually little bubbles), but we got real snow as well - about 3 inches during the night last night and into the morning today. The kids were thrilled; I was not so thrilled when I realized that I was very ill-equipped to brush the snow off of my car, not having had to do so in years. Even when it does occasionally snow here, my car is kept in the garage. Since we were at Great Wolf Lodge during the time it snowed, my car had a couple inches of snow on the windshield and I had to use a windbreaker of Ben's to clean it off before we left to drive home today. Without gloves. It was cold. Ben enjoyed throwing some snowballs once we got home. Rebecca enjoyed (is enjoying still I might add) a nap, having gone to bed at 10pm last night and woken up shortly after 6 this morning. Joel had to work this weekend, but he met us for part of the afternoon yesterday and stayed for dinner, and then met us again for a couple hours beginning late this morning, had lunch with us, and then we all headed for home.

Ben went on all the water slides this year, even the "howlin' tornado" which Joel and I each took a turn on with him-- it was scary!! This morning he found a friend - a kid who goes to the J Team after school program with him - and they buddied up and went on all the slides together which was good since Joel and I didn't get changed into our swim suits today. I also broke down and bought him the MagiQuest wand and I did the scavenger hunt with him for about an hour or so, which he was really into but which Rebecca was way too young to understand and she got bored and cranky very quickly especially when Ben wasn't too keen on letting her share the wand. Three is still a bit young for Great Wolf Lodge -- she had fun, but wasn't able to participate nearly as fully as Ben did. I think it's definitely a Christmas tradition I am going to continue though -- it's close by enough that Joel can join us when he is done at work (and he always has to work Christmas weekend) and it's a ton of fun for the kids and just gets even more fun for them as they get older. We had a great weekend!