The Great Wolf Lodge

This week, I did something that I would have never, ever done in my previous (single) life.  I spent almost 24 hours at a place called The Great Wolf Lodge (http://www.greatwolf.com/).

These don't exist in New England -- but they do elsewhere in the United States in case you are traveling with children in the near future.  I have some fairly bad associations with water parks after Water Country (I'm not quite sure why except I feel like it was kind of old and dirty).  The Great Wolf Lodge, or GWL as we can call it, is a little different.

The first thing is that the GWL is all indoors and I'm fairly sure you are required to stay there in order to use the water park.  It's located about 1.5 hours south of Seattle, in a town that has not much else as far as we could tell.  But the whole point of going to the GWL is that you don't need to leave.  It's like a mini-Disneyworld or something.

Now that I've made it sound scary and horrible, I want to say that the kids had a blast.  And since it is south of Seattle, KLC's mom was able to make the easy drive up from Portland and meet us.  Our GWL seems pretty new so there was none of that is-this-water-really-clean worry.  In fact, I have to say that KLC and I went on one water slide ourselves (you had to be 48" or taller so the twins were out of luck) that was kind of awesome.

If, however, you ever hear that KLC and I went there on our own without any children, I give you permission in advance to perform any type of intervention you see fit.