The Great Wolf Lodge

Saturday evening Nate came home antsy to get out of town.  After a bit of research and making sure all obligations were covered, we settled to leave in the morning for Sandusky, OH and stay at the Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park and family friendly hotel.  Kids were stoked! We packed our bags and set out for a short, but much needed family getaway!

After 2 and a half hours we arrived and checked in to our hotel room, changed clothes and went to get wet!  It was a blast.  The two big boys got A lot of practice swimming I shallow water.  They are capable little swimmers now, dunking under water and holding their breath a long time.  They are old enough and big enough to go down bigger kids water slides now on their own.  And they loved it.  We lost count how many times they went down those slides.  Cooper was practicing swimming so much his little eyes turned bright red.  Jaxton loved when the giant bucket would dump and he would walk  as fast as he could each time he heard the warning sings before it dumped.  Kaylee's favorite was the smaller water slides that landed in 2 feet of water.  She could do those slides confidently on her own, and we lost count how many times she would go down those.  She also liked floating on the lazy river and figured out how to float around in her life jacket in deep water.  Dawson liked the kiddie slides too, but had mixed emotions of fear and joy as he came sliding down.  He loved the basketball hoops in the water and wouldn't let any other kids have his ball.  We got in the kid friendly hot tub, which was really like a regular pool heated to 90 or 95 degrees and within the first few minutes of being warm with daddy in that pool, he fell fast asleep.  He slept for a long time in daddy's arms after that.  

The next morning we decided to go check out the beaches in Sandusky and Huron, OH.  We found a nice sandy beach in amongst a residential area called Nickelback Beach.  The kids loved if.  You couldn't see the other side of the lake and the kids tried to understand the difference between a lake beach and an ocean beach.  Jaxton and Cooper had no fear of the waves and enjoyed riding them up to their chests.  Kaylee made a sand castle with me and we waited till the ride filled our moat with wAter.  She was ok with getting her toes wet by the waves, but that was as far as she'd go in. Dawson just wandered the beach, found sticks and rocks, and just enjoyed being outside.  Actually, as we walked from the car all the way down the sandy beach toward the water, he was looking down at the sand.  When he looked up and saw the beach and the water and waves, he exclaimed "Ohhh wowwww!"  He was surprised.  

After our beach trip we went back to the waterpark for a few hours and then headed home.  It is nice that Nate can use his Mondays to spend with us.  We had so much fun together as a family!!