Great Wolf Lodge

As a family, we decided that we really needed a vacation. There is an awesome place just 30 minutes south of us called the Great Wolf Lodge where you can get a hotel room for a night and you have unlimited access to their indoor pools and slides, restaurants and gift shops. So, we headed there for a little mini "stay-cation". We drove down on a monday afternoon, got checked in, threw on our swim suits and headed for the water!
Haylie in her cover-up, ready to go!

Waiting for the elevator

Water park! (check out the nice hairy back man Jake managed to catch in the background of a few of our photos. don't think I'll be framing any of those pictures) ;)

Haylie wasn't so sure about the water at first but we ended up pulling her away kicking and screaming by the end of the day! She was loving the water.

The slides were her favorite!




Haylie and her daddy.

All done swimming for that day.

We went back to our room and got cleaned up before heading to get some dinner. Haylie got these cute wolf ears with her dinner. She actually kept them on a lot longer then I thought she would!

We stopped at their little dessert shop after dinner and got brownie ice cream sundaes. Haylie was hanging out with her favorite bear again.

Jake and I watched the newest Harry Potter movie in our room while Haylie slept since I hadn't watched it yet.

We woke up the next morning, threw on our flip flops and headed to the breakfast buffet! We filled our bellies, got our swim suits on and headed back for the water!
Haylie is ready for another day in the pools!

Family photo!

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Haylie in her big ol' life vest! They had these there to use which was very nice.

More playtime with Dad!

Haylie was getting tired and cranky at this point and was ready for her nap. So, we took her up to our room, gave her a bath and laid her down for a nap. There were slides for adults that you ride down in tubes at the park. Two of them you could ride as a single rider so Jake and I would take turns watching Haylie while the other went down those slides. The other two were for groups of 2-4 people so we would have had to ask strangers if we could ride down with their family.. awkward! ;) I was hoping to be able to ride the bigger ones with Jake so after Haylie was asleep, we called Jake's phone from my phone, left Jake's phone there by Haylie's pack-n-play and took my phone with us on mute so we could hear her but she wouldn't be able to hear us. We brought our "baby monitor" with us down to the park and put it in our bag to check on Haylie in between slides! I hope that made sense. So, Jake and I were able to go back down to the water park for a bit and do the bigger slides together while Haylie slumbered! It was fantastic.
We headed back to the room, got cleaned up while Haylie finished her nap, packed up our stuff and headed back home that afternoon! It was such a fun and needed quick trip. We love the memories we created while being there.