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Monday night was the NCAA basketball final - a very exciting game. We had a yummy dinner with the Kemners at Olive Garden and then Tom came over the watch the game. The game was close and our house was divided - Wayne and Tom going for Memphis and me for the Big 12 team, Kansas. Kansas won - yay! Anyway, we always enjoy dinner with the Kemner family and will miss you guys being able to pop over for the watching of various sporting events (they were our superbowl party this year too).
Okay, here are pics of our weekend getaway to Great Wolf Lodge. It is really just a great little weekend vacation place - we were so close to home but felt like we were off somewhere. The girls also had a great time and so did the adults. On Saturday I got a chance to start reading "Even Now" Karen Kingsbury but haven't had a chance to pick it up since. We all enjoyed the slides and the hot tub, the girls wore themselves out climbing stairs to go on the slides. I think the girls favorites water slide was the tornado. I liked the blue one - we could all ride together and it was fun. A great weekend!

This was when we first got there on Thursday. The girls couldn't wait to swim so we checked in our rooms and let them change clothes to swim - none of us wanted to go to dinner soaking wet but Wayne is one of the kids and couldn't stand it - he put his swim suit on and rode the slides right away with the kids.

After we let the kids (and Wayne) swim for a little while, we went to dinner in one of the restaurants in the hotel. Here is the girls coloring while we wait. The food was not the best feature of the hotel but because the had a "limited buffet" for the full price we got breakfast free the next day.

Outside the restaurant is a HUGE fireplace and seating area. The girls humored us and posed for pics before heading back to the water park after dinner.

Kelsie and Morgan - aren't they so cute?

All 4 girls after the first round of swimming.

This is day 2 - Morgan and Kelsie getting into the wave pool after it started making waves.

Morgan and Kelsie cruising the lazy river.

One of the pools had these lily pads to cross, a floating snake and a basketball area. The girls loved going over the lily pads in between sliding on the slides. I'm sure their arms were tired but they kept going back for more. Joel and Wayne played a basketball game with the girls but it looked pretty competitive between the two guys when we walked by to go to the hot tub.

Morgan crossing the lily pads.

We had a good time!!!