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So we got to the hotel and signed in. We had time to kill before our room was ready, so we walked around the hotel for a while, getting our bearings. If you have never been to a Great Wolf Lodge before...let me tell you...there is a lot of stuff to look at. Plus, we didn't even glance at the outdoor things because the whole weekend was overcast and rainy. We got into our room around 4:00 and decided to go down to the indoor water park.
The water park is awesome.
There was so much stuff to do there. Hailey gravitated to the 'kiddie pool' area which was maybe a foot and a half at it's deepest point. That area became our base of operation because even though Hailey often went running willy-nilly through the park, she always came back to that place, with it's 'kids only' slides and waterfalls. it was a nice place, parents could sit in the pool and see their child from almost any point in the pool. It was the there that Kiddie Pool Incident #1 occurred.
Hailey is a brave little kid...the type of kid that will go up to anyone and say hi. It really didn't concern me when she started swimming up to a small group of 'kiddie pool wading' moms. She kind of crab walked up to them, her face almost in the water...
*insert the Jaws music here*
as she got close enough to one of the moms...
da dum...da dum...da dum...
she suddenly dunked her mouth underwater, filled it up and spit water directly into this woman's face. A perfect hit. If that mom had been a carnival game, Hailey would have won the big stuffed monkey. Nathan and I were splashing our way over to apologize when the woman filled her mouth and spit right back on Hailey. "YES!" Awesome! High five to the strange mommy in a skirted bathing suit who just spit on my child! It was the perfect response! Hailey giggled and crab walked away. I apologized, but I could see it wasn't really necessary. The mom trio was having a good laugh about it. Thankfully, there are some people in this world that have a wonderful sense of humor!
It wasn't long after the spitting incident that her dad and I started getting exhausted and we hustled her out of there. After a quick trip to the mall and Meijers for supplies, we were back at the hotel for Hailey's Story Time Seating event. This incident wasn't so bad, but still pretty typical Hailey.
Every evening at 8:00 and 9:00 Great Wolf Lodge has story time for the kids in the lobby. Traditionally, children come down, dressed in their pj's and sit in from of the giant animatronic tree and listen to a story. We got down there just as the story was starting. All the other children were arranged in a big semi-circle in front of the storyteller. I tend to call children with calm dispositions like this: 'Golden Retriever Kids'...but don't misunderstand...that is a term I use with a certain kind of respect and longing. Golden Retrievers are the most popular family dogs ever, easy to train, generally calm...simple and well behaved. I have learned that I don't have a Golden Retriever Child. My kid is more like a beagle puppy...cute, but spastic. She's the type that runs around in circles barking and gets her nose into absolutely everything!
What was the phrase that lady used...oh yes..she has 'character'
Our little beagle puppy decided she didn't want to sit with the cookie-cutter children and instead sat in the big oak tree chair like a princess. [see picture] It was cute...a little embarrassing...but at least we didn't have to apologize to anybody. After that we took her back to the room where she didn't fall asleep until she had driven her dad and I totally out of our minds.
Hailey had gotten most of the embarrassing stuff out of the way on day one, and that was now coming to a close. However day two (and three) would still have great stories in store.
[to be continued...]
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