Gooooo-ing to the Lodge

Somehow, the photos in this series taken in our hotel room actually sum up the whole experience pretty well. So...

When I first told PDG we were going to a place called Great Wolf Lodge and that it would be a giant spray park but that his daddy only got to take one day off because of work stuff his face probably was about like this

 And when he'd had a full car trip's worth of anticipation, plus a visit to the Wal-Mart for snacks, Sonic for food, and been walked all through the lodge without getting to get wet because our room wasn't ready yet, he looked more like this

Finally, though, we got into our giant loft room, slapped on some bathing suits, and hit the fabulous indoor water park. There was so much for a 2-year-old to do and see his mind exploded a little. Like this

Thankfully he wasn't a perplexed scaredy-cat for too long, and we got him to go down the medium-kid water slides all by himself, jump around in the wave pool, and master the little-kid slides. He was totally like this

We spent three days and two nights there - the perfect amount of time. Yes, I did at one point push him down a slide crying because I knew he could do it and he'd had fun before. Yes, he also got scared in the big family raft tunnel/slide. But. Yes, he was so proud of himself exclaiming "I did it!" every time he did something he was scared of.  Just like this

We had fun. Mama and Papa H seemed to have fun too, letting J-Man and I tackle the bigger slides while they babysat and waded in the shallow pool.  I may have shrieked "ohmygoodness" on repeat during the entirety of at least one slide, but I kept going back for more.  The water is finally out of my ears and we'll for sure be going back in another year or two to see what little man MDG thinks of it all.  My guess is he's gonna be far more fearless than his big brother.

And, speaking of MDG, here he is too. In his reversible wolf ears. (italics are for you, J-Man)

 

And one more silly one, for good measure