We would like to thank DreamWorks for the free DreamWorks Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Activity Set and Hasbro Toys.
Right before we headed to Great Wolf Lodge for three days I received a fun package from DreamWorks in advance of the upcoming series, Trolls: The Beat Goes On! which premieres on January 19th on Netflix. The kids adore Trolls and we have watched the movie a dozen or so times and then the holiday special was on heavy rotation during the holiday season, too. Now they are more excited than ever because this new show is going to be something that they are going to watch often. I’m pretty sure that Andrew will be quoting the show over and over again.
The activity kit that we were sent is really cute they had some activities like creating Trolls Hair, making Trolls garland and also a scrapbook. The kids love working on crafts. It gave Eva lots of ideas and she took the extra materials for her own future crafts. I am sure some will be Trolls inspired.
Our activity box also contained some fun Trolls toys from Hasbro. Andrew immediately wanted to open the Blind Bag. He loves doing Blind Bag openings. The rest of the toys were also nice. They have fun hairplay aspects to them. The kids enjoy that. Andrew loves the hair, he enjoyed the Trolls hair that was included and I liked wearing, like this photo. Continue reading DreamWorks Animation is Releasing Trolls: The Beat Goes On Series on Netflix January 19→
On our last day at Great Wolf Lodge we had a plan. Get up and get going early. We had breakfast in the room and then got all packed up except for the clothes that we’d wear home. We went down for the opening of the water park and went right to the Canyon River Run (a 4 person raft slide). We enjoyed that one a whole lot. I ended up going down backwards each time, though so that Allison didn’t have to. I was also filming with my sister’s GoPro on an XShot mouth mount. This is as if I was wearing a snorkel but instead of a snorkel it had a mount for a GoPro This worked well on some rides but not others. The Otter River Run didn’t get anything because I didn’t have it aimed right But it did get some good stuff in the wave pool and on the tube rides.
On one side of the water park there is an activity where there are floating items that the kids need to walk over. They hold on to a rope net above their heads and then make their way across the floating items like stumps and acorns. It took Andrew a couple of tries but he did start to do it by the end of the trip. He was so proud. He and I did a couple of Otter River Runs back to back and then that side of the park shut down and we had to go back to the other side. We finished up with a last Canyon River Run and then headed to the room to shower quick and get out by 11am. We were out at 10:59. We were getting as much as possible out of our trip.
I packed up the car and then the kids finished out the rest of their Paw Passes by mining for rocks at the Mining Company. They both got some nice looking stones. They also got another pair of goggles and glitter tattoos.
I think that two days is a perfect amount of time to experience all that there is at Great Wolf Lodge. Definitely pack water and snacks to save money, though.
