… The Great Wolf Lodge!
So there we were. Sat in the lounge, me playing football manager on the ipad and Tracy and Sally watching crap American TV. The boys were upstairs sweating in their sleep, when all of a sudden on came an advert for the Great Wolf Lodge.
Sally > Is that were you went?
Tracy> Yes. Shall we go tomorrow?
Sally> Ok
Tracy> Neil check if it’s available
Neil> It is
Sally> Shall we go?
Tracy> No, it’s your worst nightmare. Hundreds of screaming children and nowhere to escape to?
Sally> Have they got a spa?
Tracy> Only for under 14’s
Sally> Do you think I’ll pass for that?
Neil> Am I booking it?
Sally & Tracy > Oh go on then!
Or it went something along those lines anyway! So, that, in a nutshell is the power of TV advertising!
The next morning after I’d left for work, Tracy, Aunty A and the boys packed the car and went to the Great Wolf Lodge. They didn’t tell the boys though – they told them that they were going shopping at a really big Macy’s that was off down the I-5. The boys fell for it for pretty much all the way there.
As they pulled off the freeway to go the last mile or so to the Lodge, Harry rumbled that they were going to the Lodge but what had been planned as a surprise did nearly turn into a disaster! As we had only booked the room the night before the booking hadn’t made it through to the lodge. It took a few phone calls to finally get the Lodge to accept that we had made a reservation and then the fun begun.
I can’t write much more about it because I wasn’t there but I know that:
1. They had a lot of fun
2. Aunty A love the slides
3. Toby got very upset about having to wear his Chelsea shirt wet in the pool
4.Toby was a bit scared of the slides and had to be bribed with TWO build a bears to go down the big one
5. The lady behind the bar who served giant glasses of wine was still there.
So once again the Great Wolf Lodge delivered! Fun was had by all, even Aunty A, and they can’t wait to go back again!