Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City

First, a hilarious picture to show you one of Addie's recent quirks. She frequently undresses herself and finds some of her siblings clothes and does her best job dressing herself in their clothes. She is pretty good at it but the shirt usually confuses her so she comes asking for help. I admit, I put the shirt on her in this picture. It makes her so happy I don't see why not satisfy her, even though it's a little weird seeing her in boy clothes. So after she put on Peter's pants and I helped her with the shirt, she went and found his shoes and put them on, and then donned the hard hat. Too cute! She really looks a lot like Peter !! 

 During a few days of Reading Break we had the privilege to spend two nights in Traverse City at the Great Wolf Lodge with my parents and sister and brother-in-law and their kids. It is a great place for a family-friendly getaway. It's a hotel with an indoor water park, plus a ton of other activities, too. It was a really fun couple of days.

Each night one of the characters comes and helps read a bedtime story to all the kids in the lobby. Our kids loved meeting the big fuzzy animals. Well, maybe Addie didn't love it?

 There really was something for everyone to enjoy at the water park. Plenty of fun to be had by all! It was super nice having a one-to-one adult to child ratio: the kids ages are 7, 5, 4, 3, 1 1/2, and 5 months!

One of the perks of the water park at GWL is that the air and water temperatures are luxuriously warm!  Even so, the hot tub was a still a treat for young and old.

 Grandma S with Cora and Leyton (in the back) enjoying the lazy river.

 Cora got to take a special "Jr. Lifeguard" training class. Behind her in the picture you can see some of the water park attractions.

 The time went so fast but it gave us great memories to enjoy for a long time afterward! 

Click HERE for a short video at YouTube of Addie and Peter going down the kiddie sized water slides. (Thanks, Deb, for taking it!) They did this over and over for probably a whole hour straight one evening! They were really loving it! Too bad we didn't get any videos of the big slides. Let's face it: cameras and water don't mix!