We arrived at 130 to check in yesterday. Check-in is not until 4 but you can get there at 1 to enjoy the waterpark until your room is ready. Of course, there were so many people leaving yesterday a lot of rooms were not ready until late. We were lucky that our was ready at 430 but it also gave us some time to play in the water and explore!
We had to change in the locker rooms inside the waterpark and Daddy ran everything back out to the car until our room was ready, including the camera. How grown-up does this girl have to look?!?
We played until our room was ready then headed to dinner at their restaurant, buffet style. Kids ate free so not so bad but the girls were megatired and climbed all over the booth we had. Our girls, when they are tired, act crazy. Maybe not really crazy, but crazy for them. Tonight at dinner, Lily was under the table, Emma was climbing across the table, they played with the silverware, salt and pepper shakers, would take a bite of food then spit it out and of course seemed like they wanted to join the family behind us since they would stare at them constantly.
Buuut, the waitress was extremely nice and talked to Lily, which she loved. And, a bribe (yes, bribe) of ice cream and toppings got them to eat a really great dinner. By the time we left, Mike and I polished off probably half of the dessert buffet platters, had 4 to-go drinks in a carrier and the girls had these, compliments of the really nice waitress, Lydia.
Wolf Ears!
Yes, all the way to the room they Rooared like they were wolves.
And, yes they roared at people walking in the hall as well.
And, yes we got looks, smiles and head tilt smiles.
We're biased of course, but they were cute and we were just happy to be out of dinner.
We took a few pictures, realized we had the biggest suite in the place (2br, 2bath, kitchenette, living room with fireplace, 3tvs and 3phones plus a patio) and the girls had baths in the huge jetted tub.
After storytime in front of the fireplace, so much fun. Off to bed we went.
Lily was up at 7 Ready. To. Go.
Emma and I got up a little after 730, we all relaxed, had coffee, breakfast, some tv time with trusty Dinosaur Train and had some fun. We have to unplug the phones in hotels since Lily calls everyone. Here, she's talking to Daddy and Nana. Emma ran to put on her new Crocs first thing and enjoyed her chocolate milk by the fireplace. She kept pointing to it saying hot, no and then pointed to the dial to tell us that mama and dada are the ones who touch that. She also requested that her picture be taken.
We packed up and headed to the waterpark at 945, it opens at 9 and it was packed by the time we got down there. Mike put everything in the car since at 11 your room wristband stops working. (Yeah, no room keys only wristbands!) The girls were sooo excited that we thought as soon as they got into the hallway they'd be off but we got this instead....
walking nicely holding hands with the biggest smiles EVER.
As Mike and I got our table all set up, our "camp" organized this is how our girls waited for us
watching their favorite raft ride that they can't go on due to height restrictions.
And, a few pictures of our fun...
Daddy and Lily in the Wave Pool
From Top: The Baby Pool (max depth of 2 or 3' I think)
By far the warmest pool there and lots of fun. It was crowded but definitely had room to swim with nice buffers. Emma loved just walking around bouncing, climbing up on the sides and jumping down to us. Lily got really comfortable being in the water but really loves her vest.
Next: The water slides located in the Baby Pool. Yes, Lily and Emma both loved these.
Emma only went down the orange slides a few times yesterday afternoon while Lily became quite the pro and was very comfortable since she was wearing her vest. She loved the yellow, bumpy, fast slide and by the end was going down and landing all by hereself. (we were standing at the bottom "catching" her so she wouldn't go under) By the end of today, she went under a couple of times and was so proud of herself and finally realized it's not as scary as she thought.
Bottom Left: Some of the slides we thought we'd be able to take the girls on with us. Yesterday we climbed all the way up to talk to the lifegaurd and nope...we would have to go first and then they would go after us, not cool. So we'll wait on those and girls didn't even realize.
Bottom Right: The huge treehouse, sprinkler house, fun house thing. This thing had water going everywhere. It had buckets you could fill, sprayers you could shoot, rope ladders and nets to climb, a creaky bridge and tunnels made out of rope. And, Lily loved it. She went up a few times with Mike and the last time we went up, she took off. When Mike finally caught up to her she was contiplating climbing down a rope net to get down to the bottom. Yes, the same net that preteens run up and act crazy on! Geez, Lil, maybe next time. Maybe.
This house also had a huuuge bucket on the top that filled in about 10 minutes or so, a bell would ring and then the bucket would tip and DUMP a ton of very cold water on everyone waiting at the bottom. And, what brave little one asked to be there?
Lily.
She caught the edge, got drenched, laughed and giggled that she did it and jumped up and down.
Everytime the bucket tipped Lily would look at us, point at the bucket and say, "I've done that before. I was brave but it wasn't that bad. You should try it." HA.
We had a quick snack and played, played, played some more.
After returning from a quick girl potty trip we found our Baby Pool, with slides, closed due to some poopoo clean-up issues and took it as our cue to head out to go home.
And, since this is the way L and E looked as we traveled the hour home
seems like we had some super duper family time.
We CAN NOT wait to go back!
