We had such a great time at the Great Wolf Lodge. Chad had to go to Charlotte for a class to get his PDH hours for the year. His company was paying the lodging and when we saw the cost for the Hilton was not much more than the Great Wolf Lodge, we took advantage of it, and it was amazing. We left Monday at 9:05am and we stopped off at a Chick-fi-la near Burlington (would be the chick-fi-la we would go to if we moved down there). While we were there I asked the general manager if they had a toddler time since we were thinking about moving there and needed activities. I talked to the marketing director as well as the owner of the store. Boy did I feel imp0rtant. The kids enjoyed eating and playing. We made it to the GWL about 1:30 when I checked in they upgraded us to a Jacuzzi suite. Oh I was excited. We got settled in and headed to the water park. That was fun yet stressful having two little ones by myself, Kipling had a great time Sada wanted nothing to do with the water and just wanted me to hold her the whole time. Kipling soon discovered the Arcade, I told him he had a certain amount of money and when it was spent he was done. He discovered the old car, both of them could ride in as well as the carousel and those became their favorites. Money ran out and it was time to go to the room. Kipling learned about money and how you have to earn money to spend money. Kipling decided to swim in the Jacuzzi when we got back to the room and sada went and took a nap. Tues. morning they had the wolf walk where they play I spy and learn about the different animal in the lodge. After we made an origami wolf (I was amazed I could make one). When Chad got home from his class on Tuesday we took the kids to the water park at first Kip was not to excited but after Chad put him down the water slide the first time, we could not get him off, he was on it til they closed. He got to know a lot of the lifeguards and they had so much fun with him. They would help him out of the slide and then give him high 5. Every night they had Rowdy the Reindeer and Santa come for story time, Kipling loved Rowdy. We had to see Rowdy every night. Between the water park, arcade, Rowdy the Reindeer, Santa, snow time in the lobby 3 times a day and coloring at cub club we were busy. On Weds. we woke up and they were supposed to have Rowdy in the lobby and he was not there. Kipling was so upset. He looked for him EVERYWHERE!! After talking to him for a while about Rowdy I talked him into going to the Water park after we checked out at 11pm. We of course had to watch it snow one last time at 10 am. So, we were there til about 2:30pm and left. It was nice because we were able to check in early on Monday and we did not have to leave the water park and we could use all of the amenities until we were ready to leave the last day. We had a lot of fun I hope you enjoy the pictures we love to look at them over and over.
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