GREAT WOLF LODGE MARCH 2009

Yes it snowed while we were at the lodge. Our room was above the cars on the right:)

The arcade was a blast. This is Grant's favorite game -- jumpin' jackpot to 'the music'.

The waterslide was 7 stories high! Yes, mom even climbed the stairs a few times.

This is the chute you come out of at the end of the big water slide. So much fun :)

The kid's super waterslides with buckets and sprinklers everywhere.

The wave pool-- when the wolf howls, the waves start like the ocean, but WARM...

The bucket dumps 1,000 gallons of water every 5 minutes and you get super soaked.

Like this!!!!

Tall enough for some water slides, but not quite tall enough for the Howlin' Tornado. :( Maybe next trip.

Every year we do something special with the Christmas money that we save and this year it was Great Wolf Lodge near Olympia. The ads on TV made the boys crazy. It is a great big, fun indoor waterpark. We all enjoy the water so much. The temperature at the park is 84 degrees so it is nice and toasty. The rooms are very nice and cozy. It was a fun break to get away and relax. They had a nice arcade and a MagicQuest game. The boys had wands that would activate items you had to hunt for all over the lodge. They had storytime by the big clock at 9pm. It was a great family trip.

We love GREAT WOLF!

Homemade Pizza!

I came up with this wild idea to have a homemade pizza night. The boys talked about it for two days. I remember when I was a kid, we had these Apian Way pizza kits we would buy in the store and make our not so good cardboard type pizzas at home. I don't have a dough recipe, so I bought the pizza dough at Winco. We weren't sure how it would turn out because I bought it a couple of days ahead and we kept hearing exploding in our refrigerator:) We would look and the wrapper would have a hole in it..... Maybe you aren't supposed to keep them for a couple days. Finally, pizza night came and it was a big hit. We made 4 small pizzas and each of us were able to put on our own toppings. They were yummy. All of the boys LOVE pizza, but making it ourselves just seemed to hit the spot. I even got my boys in shirts for a picture.

Bon Appetite!