Great Wolf Lodge!

Last week we went to a huge indoor water park called the Great Wolf Lodge. It's located about an hour and a half north in Grand Mound, WA. We went with the other Jackson families for a fun couple of days. It was kind of difficult to find a time that all 21 of us could go, but it was worth the effort. With none of the cousins going to the same schools everyone had a so much fun being together!

The GWL is all about kids! The games, story times, arcade, and of course the main attraction the water park! All the kids no matter what age had fun here. Each of the kids would just go off with a cousin or sibling, the only thing we required was to make sure you had a buddy!

Jon and I took turns going on some of the slides with the big kids and hanging out with the little ones.Brinley was bummed that she wasn't tall enough to go on the Tornado, but even Brooklyn (my most scared child) loved that slide! The second day started off great and we were in the water park by 9:30 am. About 30 minutes later the power went out in the entire hotel/water park. We had to quickly exit the park and wait until the power was restored. At first many people stayed by the entrance of the water park but as time passed we soon realized that it was going to be longer than expected. The staff at GWL was great and wanted us to be happy. They passed out food, drinks, coloring pages and chocolates. While we waited the kids played cards.
They sang songs while Jorden played the Ukulele.And the men spent time looking at their Iphones! Shocker!After about two hours of waiting the power returned and we were able to go back to the water park. We played hard for five more hours and then we all were tired and wanted to take a nap, just like Maddie did!We changed, ate dinner, and then hit the road! A great time was had by all and we can't wait to return again to the GWL. We received free day passes in the mail two days ago to compensate us for when the power went off! The kids can't wait to return!