Photo-A-Day #4117

I think that two days of bringing my phone to the water with me at Great Wolf Lodge was tempting fate enough. So there are no images from our runs today. We got up fairly early and got ourselves ready to go to the waterpark. The main objectives today was to enjoy the waterpark and complete the MagiQuest. One goal we dominated and the other we came up short.

I went and got Allison another coffee at the Dunkin Donuts. On the way there I asked at the front desk if it was possible for us to get late checkout. We weren’t told when we checked in and got VIP status if that late checkout was part of it. So, I figured that I’d ask. They said no problem and that really took the pressure off. Now we could go and relax and enjoy our day.

We got to the waterpark at 9am when it opened and we looked around for Andrew’s Frogglez but they were not to be found anywhere. We checked the front desk via phone and then at the park itself but they were gone. They are too cool for anyone not to pass up as they walk by. So we had Andrew in regular goggles and there was the awful hair pulling for us to suffer through.

The park was pretty empty and we took advantage of that by making 8 runs in at the top of the platform. Andrew did the Otter Run four times in a row and so did I. I kept trying to catch him but he’d hit the bottom, jump up and sprint up those stairs to go again. Each time up the stairs got slower for me. Then we started going down the tube rides, Alberta Falls. I did not catch the names of both of these slides so we called them the light slide and the dark slide. The dark slide was slower and the light slide had a big drop. Andrew and I did double rides down both of those slides over and over. I kept thinking that he was going to slip out from my legs and under the tube, he wasn’t but that was my fear. He just made it for height. He’ll be able to do his own tube by himself next time. The kid has no fear. So, I’d say we dominated goal number one for the day. We did all we wanted to do in the water park in an hour and a half.

After the waterpark we headed to the room and took showers and got completely packed up. Then we headed out to finish MagiQuest and also get the last two items on the kids’ Paw Passes. We started to complete the last few quests for MagiQuest. Once we finished those we ended up trying one of the adventures. Andrew was no longer interested in doing this so he and Allison went to play giant checkers. Eva and I worked on the dragon quest. Finishing that was tough. It took us a while to defeat the dragon and we had help from a few people. Eva was getting very discouraged and my patience was waning. Finally we switched it up. She touched the runes and I waved the wand. We defeated the dragon together and she was happy about it.

We ended with mining for rocks at Oliver’s Mining Company. That was the last thing on the Paw Pass. The kids got some nice rocks and were happy about it. Then we drove home.

We made a stop at Snappy Dogs for an early dinner. Great hot dogs and we continued on. We got home and unpacked. Eva is doing the laundry for the next two weeks. So we did laundry together and everyone went to bed early. We were pretty wiped.