A weekend of surprises

What a great weekend full of surprises! It began with the BIG surprise on Thursday after school. Thursday morning after Kelsie and Wayne left for school and I left for work, I packed and loaded our suitcases so Kelsie wouldn't see them. When Wayne picked her up at school in the afternoon I made a phone call while they were on the way telling Kelsie that we were leaving straight from home when they got home to go and pick up Morgan and Deanna b/c we were going to meet Joel for dinner at a cool place and it's a little while away so we needed to leave early. Once we got to Morgan's house, I distracted the girls by asking to go upstairs and see Morgan's butterflies in the her room. It worked and Deana and Wayne loaded up their luggage and off we went. Morgan was out of school on Friday so they were asking, "can we swim at the Y and spend the night tonight?" Of course, we played it off with the usual "we'll see" response. So, as we drove closer to the Great Wolf Lodge, we told the girls to close their eyes b/c it was a really cool place. When we pulled up to the front doors, they screamed and thought it was cool but still did not realize we were spending the night. We told them to get their bags out of the car b/c we were spending the night and they were so excited and shocked and screaming! Joel and the Shirley's met us there just as we arrived so we got to check in together which meant all 3 rooms side by side - very convenient. We had a GREAT TIME - I will share more details with more pics later, here are just a few, mostly of just the water park area of the lodge.

The other big surprise this weekend was that Wayne presented me on Saturday night with an iphone! I couldn't believe it. Wayne's dad had originally wanted to use some hotel stay points to buy me one for Mother's Day but when he called to redeem, they no longer carried the iphone. He decided to give Wayne most of the money toward the purchase of the phone anyway as my Mother's Day gift and since I was about to upgrade to the Blackberry Curve on Saturday, they gave it to me early. I absolutely LOVE the phone. I did have a hard time setting up my e-mail but Apple tech support figured it out and we fixed it. Anyway, I am learning to use it and so far I love it - phone, email, texting, pics, internet, calendar, ipod all in one. A great gadget. Thanks PaPaw! Enjoy the pics - more details about the weekend to come.

The big water fort play area and some of the slides. The water fort had this huge bucket that would fill with water and dump on you - fun!

The stairs to climb for 5 water slides - most of the slides start indoors, go outside and end inside. The yellow and green slides are mostly indoors so here they are. This place is HUGE.

The wave pool from our seating/hang out area.

Part of the lazy river looking toward a couple more slides and fort.

Kelsie and Morgan - this is when we first got to the pool area day 1. This was their re-creating the surprise.

The girls in our hotel room right after we checked in and before we got to the pool. We checked in, put our stuff down and changed as quickly as possible for the pool. They are so excited, they weren't sure what kind of faces to make - so cute!