Going to the Lodge... the Great Wolf Lodge

Isabelle is really big into commercials and one of her absolute favorite is the Great Wolf Lodge commercials, she has been asking us to go for months now. One of her friends from school went last year and she heard how much fun she has, so the Lodge was permanently ingrained in her brain. We finally booked a weekend stay there since we knew that with Baby Davie coming in July we would not be taking our normal 2 week trip to Ocean City, MD this year. Isabelle talked about the trip everyday for a week until finally it was time to go =) I am not sure what I was thinking booking a trip to the water park with a child that is really not that into swimming but all in all it turned out to be fun.

When we first arrived we checked into out room and went straight upstairs to check it out. We upgraded to a wolf den suite so that Isabelle and Grandma (my mom) would have there own private room, well it was semi private. Grandma had to work until late that evening so we went to the waterpark to check it out before she got there. Isabelle liked the park but for some reason the girl is just not a big fan of the water, she does not like to get splashed and she is scared of people running her over or bumping into her when she is in the pool. (I think that has to do with how little she is =) Anyway after not much time in the pool she was ready to get out of the waterpark and check out the rest of the hotel. The Lodge has a magic wand that you can purchase to go on an quest with, where you find different clues that make pictures light, items in the hotel talk and even move. We knew Isabelle was much to young to do the quest so instead we bought the wand and left it in demo mode, it was great! She was able to shake her wand at all kinds of things that would light up, move and make noises.. This had to be one of her favorite parts about the mini-vacation. When Grandma finally got off of work Isabelle and I went downstairs to wait for her outside near the front entry. We were standing by the doors when someone lit a cigarette. Isabelle tells me,"Mom we need to get out of here that man is smoking and it is not good for the baby. Baby Davie breaths what you breath and he does not have thumbs yet so he cannot hold his nose. Smoking is bad for babies, and I am trying to be helpful so let's move".. LOL What a thoughtful, sweet little girl I have.

Isabelle and her magic wand growling like a bear.

Isabelle and Grandma's wolf den, it came complete with Isabelle's own TV she was so tickled to finally have a TV in her room.

One of Belle's favorite parts of the GWL was story time. Every night at 8pm they would have a story time downstairs in the lobby. There was an anamatronic forest that would come to life, singing and dancing for all of the kids. Once that show as over they would read a story and you got to hug the wolf goodnight before you were off to bed. The night the above pictures were taken we all went to the Melting Pot for dinner and were absolutely miserable, but it was so delicious. Isabelle had a blast cooking her own shrimp and would even talk to them, she would say," Don't worry little shrimpie this will only hurt for a second".. LOL

Views of the waterpark from the main lobby

Isabelle with her new stuffed Wolf that Mommy and Daddy got her, Wolfie is his name. It turned out that on the last day we were there Dave won Isabelle a second wolf from one of the claw games. Dave is a claw game master, so now Wolfie has a sister.

Grandma and Isabelle, and me with my angel =)