Varesic Family Vacation 2011 at Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine Texas 08/10/11

On Wednesday August 10^th we took the boys on a 5 hour drive to Grapevine Texas to stay at the Indoor Waterpark Resort, Great Wolf Lodge. I discovered this place through advertisements on the Internet. Before booking our vacation I found out from friends on Facebook that it truly is a wonderful place for kids and families.

I am going to give the summary of our trip but do not be surprised if Detailed Daddy Tony gives more details in a later Blog.

We spent every day Wednesday-Saturday at the waterpark. There were so many great water features for 1 year olds and 3 (almost 4) year olds. The “baby pool” portion was huge and fun for Jacob and Matthew. There were several slides that Matthew could enjoy too. We spent on average 6 hours a day enjoying these features.

Jacob and Matthew loved to watch the 1000 gallon bucket drop water on patrons. Tony enjoyed going down slides right after Matthew allowing for Matthew to get splashed on the ground floor from Daddy’s big wave. The four of us spent time in the wave pool. Matthew enjoyed jumping the waves. Tony found it ironic that he liked this so much while 5 hours away when we could do this in Galveston (45 minutes away). The one frustrating aspect of the trip was that Tony and I did not get to go on some of the bigger “scary” slides as Matthew called them.

We ended each day exhausted but woke up ready to go the next morning. These photos demonstrate that.

On Wednesday night (our first night) we attended Storytime with Wiley the Wolf. There were animatronic forest creatures singing.






Jacob and I explored around the lodge while Matthew and Daddy spent extra time in the waterpark.


Matthew did a "Build a Wolf" Wiley and made a friend for Bongo.



A tired little piggy.