Day #4
Posted by Carrie on 19 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Familial things
Oh, Alysia, this would crack you up. We’re at the Great Wolf Lodge, and Eric’s polite chat with the desk clerk netted us an unasked-for, completely free upgrade from a regular room into a King Suite. We have our own room, and the kids sleep in theirs! Can’t wait to do Wiley’s Woods again (an indoor playland that is a ton of fun, or, at least, certainly was when we were their with Alysia and her kids).
Yesterday, once we got here, was just ten times better than the first part of the trip, in terms of relaxation. Pretty much, we were in the hotel’s water park for about five hours, during which time Sam discovered that he loves wave pools and Gabe learned to mistrust cheerful-looking signs. He and I wandered into an area that was designed and portrayed to be for small children, but we weren’t there for thirty seconds before he got blasted in the face with a spurt of water, turned to flee, got blasted again, stopped to howl, and had a giant bucket dumped over him from above. After that, the water park wasn’t quite as fun for him; even the lazy river was a tense exercise in “Okay, this is fine for now…fine for now…what’s that around the corner?!???” 
But Sam made us all smile with how, even after he would be upended and dunked by giant waves, left sobbing and quaking, he would stumble after the innertube to go back out again, eyes still squinting through tears. Back on the horse! And by the end, he wasn’t even crying after being dunked, which, for Sam, is a huge deal. 
Oh, and then in the evening, we took the kids to the lobby for an organized bedtime story program. I could have hoped it would settle them down for sleep more, but that would have been asking too much.
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