Cancelled Plans and New Ones

We weren't able to visit friends of Mom's in Tampa, Florida this spring break. Misty's friend's mom is having some medical issues and so her daughter is spending the break with her mother. We decided not to fly to Tampa, and to post pone the trip abroad.

This was a heart breaking decision, we'd been looking forward to some warm weather for a while. Instead, we booked a room at the Great Wolf Lodge. It is an indoor water park/hotel near Kansas City, KS. Wednesday after work we drove to the hotel and checked into our room. Misty picked up some swim suits before we left.

There is something about a hotel that little kids love. Madeline was excited as soon as we got in the room. It must feel like a sleep over, I think if we just stayed at a hotel with a swimming pool it would have felt like a vacation for Madeline. Maybe it's like an adventure with the sheer size of the hotel, the long hallways, and all the people around.

Before we left for dinner Misty called to see if Madeline's cousins could come to the Lodge and they could. We headed down right after dinner when they arrived, all of us in our bathing suits, including Jack.

We took the stairs from the fourth to the first floor to the entrance of the water park. It's awesome to see so much indoors. There is a water event/pool for everyone. We played with the cousins in the zero entry pool with the water pipes spraying and in the lazy river. The lazy river was so relaxing, Jack fell asleep while riding in the seat of one of the tubes.

Before falling asleep on the lazy river, Jack wasn't opposed to the idea of a water park. However, Jack came to the conclusion quickly that he dislikes it when people splash and the splashes of water land on him. At first, he gave a very dissatisfied look on his face, which turned into angered grunts as time progressed. He did love the 12+ pool. It felt much more like a bath. The temperature in the pool was much higher and there was almost no splashing in this pool. Jack woke up on the lazy river when some rambunctious boys splashed him.

Madeline had so much fun at the lodge. She could do everything there, ride the slides, play the basketball, play on the playground, play with her cousins, and swim in the lazy river. She liked the slides the most. Remember we went from the fourth floor to the first floor to the entrance of the water park; well we climbed from the first floor to the fourth floor to get on the slides, carrying one of the tubes. Two people could sit in a tube, and after getting to the top, you slide down the tube one of the three water slides. It was fast and fun.