It’s about this time of year that the folks in my neck of the woods start making plans for family vacations come spring. (It’s somewhat of a natural consequence of the start of the rainy season.)
But our family isn’t joining them this year for two reasons:
- We did the vacation thing BIG last year and it seems prudent to keep it much more low key this year
- Our youngest is at the perfect age (20 months) for making the idea of a plane trip or long lines at an amusement park sound absolutely awful.
So this year we’re taking a different strategy.
Instead of one, big, week-long family vacation sometime in February, we’ve decided to pepper the next several months with several small adventures.
One thing we’d really like to accomplish with this idea is lots of bonding. So, to that effect, we’re doing some Mommy/Son outings, some Daddy/Daughter trips, some adventures with the whole family, etc.
We just started so we’ve only logged two excursions so far… my son and husband took in a college football game about a month ago and just a few weeks ago we left our young toddler with grandma and took the big kids on an overnight Great Wolf Lodge Snowland adventure.
It was actually a very spontaneous thing. The week before, I received an invitation for me and my family to come get a sneak peek of Great Wolf Lodge’s transformation into a Christmas wonderland. Having been to the indoor waterpark/hotel/virtual amusement park before, I knew the big kids would be thrilled to see the place holiday style.
So, despite my son being in his very first play and having to be at school for 7 hours on Saturday to perform two shows, we bundled them into the car that night and headed off to check another adventure off of our list.
It really turned out to be a magical 24 hours and today I’m giving you an insider’s look at the Great Wolf Lodge Snowland experience (find the resort closest to you here) and my tips on how to get the best out of it!
The very first thing that happens when you check in, is your children are each given a set of wolf ears– which they will immediately put on and then run around the lobby acting like wolves.
When that happens, this is what you’ll see- The Great Clock Tower located right in the middle of the Grand Lobby.Read More...
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