The Glasscock Family: Great Wolf Lodge . . . Kansas City, KS

We left for Iowa on July 24th and decided a couple of days before we left that we were going to stop in Kansas City, KS with my sister-in-law, my nephew, and niece. She was picking my brother up at the airport on Friday (he was in Boston on business) and we jumped at the opportunity to break up the trip. It's a 12 hour drive (with stops)to my grandparent's house and about 8 hours to Kansas City. The kids were great travelers and we stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge - which was a blast. We had been wanting to take the kids to the one in Grapevine, but just haven't had the chance so this was the perfect opportunity.

We left our house at 6am on Thursday morning. The kids watched TV almost the whole 8hours, I read a book, and Chris drove. We arrived at Kansas City about 2pm and decided to go sit down at a restaurant and eat lunch before we checked in at the hotel. At 3:20 we checked in, but our room wasn't ready so we decided to walk around Target instead. I bought both kids a new game for their Nintendo DS because they had done a great job in the car - minimal fighting and "he's touching me", etc. When we got back to the hotel we decided that we were all exhausted and took a nap before we headed to the waterpark. We slept for about an hour and then promptly suited up and headed down to the waterpark. Here is what we saw:

It was massive! Huge areas for all of us to hang out, baby area, inside pool, outside pool, etc. It was like the Wet and Wild that I went to growing up, except that most of it was all inside. They have this huge bucket that drops 1,000 gallons of water every 5 minutes or so. A bell rings and then people run to stand under it and get drenched. Chris, Amy, Emily, Brandon, Grace and Caden all stood under it so that I could get their picture.