Great Wolf Lodge

It is time for another trip to Great Wolf Lodge!  It has become an annual tradition we look forward to.  Who doesn't want to get away in the middle of Winter and swim?  Well what a difference a year makes!  Last year we left Pierce (middle child) home and I had to pump in the hotel for him.  This year Pierce came and we left Reid home and I had to pump for him.  Actually I think we conceived Reid 3 days after we got home from Great Wolf last time.  Phew - time flies!  Ok so now that you are all caught up here are the details of the trip.

We took our oldest 2 with us to Great Wolf Lodge in Canada.  It is only about 25 minutes away from our house.  Actually it is right passed Clifton Hill, which if you are from Buffalo you know all about.  The drinking age in Canada is 19 so everyone around here went to Clifton Hill a time or two and got drunk before they could legally drink in the US.  Passports and birth certificates and a little stop at Wendy's and we were there!  My mom came to help us which was awesome because I am a nervous Nellie with the kids around water.  I don't know how we will ever take them all to the beach by ourselves.  I am that paranoid!  Honestly, none of us are strong swimmers.  And it turns out little Pierce has NO fear of the water at all.  He was getting knocked over by the waves and laughing his little swim diaper off.  I could barely breathe!  My mom was surprised to see how nice the accomodations really are.  We always get the Kid Cabin with three bunk beds and never use them because Brady always sleeps with us.  Well, a sure sign he is getting older :( he slept in the bunk beds with Grandma this year.  Which I will be honest kind of broke my heart a little.  Which means we slept with Pierce, who turns out to be quite the thrasher in the middle of the night.  Even with him sandwiched between mom and dad, he still managed to fall out of the bottom of the bed!  He was all right but we need to figure something out before our Disney cruise.  Maybe Disney will have a bed rail?  Or we could pad up a nice soft place for him to land? 

 

 

We swam and swam and then headed to Clifton Hill for dinner.  We ate at Boston Pizza and Steve had the poutine fries again!  It's tradition.  And walking around Clifton Hill is realized it is a great place to take the kids when it isn't 32 degrees.  They have a lot of cool stuff for them to do.  And the Fall are right there too!  So we will be headed back once Buffalo thaws a bit. 

 

 The only person more tattooed than my hubby was his tattoo artist that was there.  Small World!

 

 

 

 Cotton Candy poolside

 

All tuckered out from swimming 

 

 

2 of the most annoying guns ever were what the boys wanted for souvenirs.  They made for great alarm clocks!

 

Steve promised Brady a trip to the WWE store at Clifton Hill for a wrestler.  Well, heads up the wrestlers there cost $45 compared to $10 at Target.  So after getting ripped off (big time) Brady has a new wrestler and he wanted Hornswaggle.  For those who don't know, Hornswaggle is a little person so clearly this made the $45 price tag even harder to swallow! 

I am a horrible packer.  I always forget something.  Well this time it was pacifier for Pierce.  Pierce will only suck on a soothie, the kind you get from the hospital when they are born.  The kind that you can't use one of those pacifier connectors and pin to his shirt so you have to pay close attention as to where it is at all times.  Well, the gift shop had 1 pacifier and it was not a soothie.  We held our breath.  Pierce must have known it was that or nothing so he actually sucked on it and thank goodness fell asleep after a few episodes of Caillou on the ipad. 

 

We hit the arcade and the breakfast buffet with the characters in the morning and were home by noon.

It was a blast and we can't wait to go back!