GREAT WOLF LODGE

We spent the weekend at Great Wolf Lodge with the kiddos.  As always it had it's ups and downs, but for the most part we had LOTS of fun.  S & M are old enough to go on the big rides without us, although S is almost always to fearful to do it.  M did a couple on his own.  I was really proud of him.  Unfortunately E and G were too little to do most of the rides.  So we spent a good bit of time on the Lazy River.  

Which is a funny story: At one point my hubby was on the lazy river with all the kids. They were giving me some time to read (Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simpson- good read).  Any way they go around and then go around again and then they come past and A motions that he can't find E.  Now, we'd been having a problem with this one.  He's the one that ran away from us at Disney World when he was 3 years old- quite a fright.  So I stand and look up and down the river.  I spot him.  The little squirt decided that "moseying" down the river was too slow for him.  He took to running around in it.  Which would have been okay, but not when you can't keep up with him.  Finally we found him, repremanded him and came up with a new plan.  I would sit in the back of a 2 person tube with G in my lap and we harnessed E's energy in the front "seat".  We told him he was our horse.  He told me that if I said "HeeYa!" he would go faster.   Poor thing has bloody toe knuckles from going round and round the river. But never once did he fuss. 


G's favorite ride was a slide you go down without a tube.  We found it funny because E wouldn't even attempt it.  For all his (harnessed) energy, he was fearful of this ride. G would go down and run to the top for another.  It's funny what these little people like and don't like. 


Now I am home.  I finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (B+) and picked up The Hunger Games (A-)  As the children were all in a tired stupor from our busy trip I read half the book last night and finished it today.  Now I need to find Catching Fire- I am in love with Peeta and wondering how Katniss could be so blind (and angry, distrusting?).  


Oh, and I also need to devise a way to deter the Ground Hog that is consuming my sunflowers and sugar snap peas.  Eating my sunflowers pissed me off, but today when I discovered he was eatting my peas I declared WAR!