Showing posts with label Trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trips. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Something New

We took the girls to Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine last weekend, and Eryn fell in love with the MagiQuest.
Short version: The hotel has an interactive scavenger hunt for kids. You purchase a wand and a game activation and then you're ready to run up and down the stairwell looking for the next clue. Last summer she never noticed all the kids running around with their wands because she was so engrossed in the waterpark...but this year I'd say she was more into the game. She was able to read most of the clues and really got into trying to remember which floor had what clues. She worked on her quests for hours! She is already talking about our trip for next summer and hoping all of the clues are different.

Finding the purple crystal.

Looking for gold.


We only stayed one night, which turned out to be a very good thing. Paige loved being in the water, but had no interest in sleeping that night in the room...she preferred screaming (those bottom two teeth are finally through the skin).
Steven ended up driving around Grapevine with her at 3 am :)

Monday, June 8, 2009

750 Feet Underground


We arrived too late in the afternoon to walk ourselves 750 feet down into the caverns, but the elevator got us there just fine! When the brochure says 56 degrees year-round, they mean it.
I left home without my infamous gray hoodie (can you believe it FB girls?) and thankfully I read that important sentence before we headed to the park. The one store Carlsbad has...Walmart.


Steven with Paige's blanket and my new baby blue hoodie. Yes, it's cold down there! We ended up wrapping Paige's little legs in her blanket when her toes started to feel like ice cubes.


She looks scared to death in this picture, but she actually did very well. She looked around with those big blue eyes quite contently for most of the tour (she got sleepy and had to lay her head down a few times, but never gave up or made a peep).


Resting, not sleeping...just resting. Sweet baby girl!


Soda Straws!! The little elevator dude made us promise not to touch any of the formations, but we REALLY REALLY wanted to!
6-5-09