Wisconsin Dells

Tim and I decided that is was finally time for a vacation. Since Oliver is in a year round school that let us with a nice off season break. We went Wednesday through Friday and it was perfect. We stayed at the Wilderness Resort and it was very affordable. They have three indoor water

parks and an indoor playground. Perfect.

I didn't get any water park pictures since I had my hands full with my kids and I didn't want to worry about my camera. All of the kids loved the water. Oliver's favorite was the big watersides. He was tall enough to go on any two or more person water slide. They were pitch black and kind of scary, but he loved them. Amelia was able to go on one and she liked it okay, but her favorite was the lazy river and the wave pool. Eloise liked the kiddie pools. I think she liked the ability to just roam around. There was a huge bucket of water that slowly filled up above the kiddie pool and every few minutes it dumped thousands of gallons of water over the kiddie area. This caused a lot of anxiety for Eloise. It bothered me too because every time the warning bell went off I had to scramble to find Eloise to make sure she wasn't anywhere under it. Every few minutes. There were only a few fleeting moments of relaxing near the water. One nice thing is that they were able to have their water jackets on, except for on the water slides. My favorite part was taking the kids on a tube to the deep end of the wave pool. It was a work out, but the waves were very exciting for everyone (except Eloise). She very much disliked the waves.

Here is a picture of the kids passed out on the first night.

We also spent a lot of time in the Timberland Playhouse. They all had a blast. The only problem is that there were exits three different sides and an arcade right next to it. We lost track of Eloise a few times and lost her (to the panic point) twice. She is just so stinking independent and thinks she's older than she is.

This is were we found her after one of those panic moments.

They had little foam balls that you could shoot, throw, slingshot, suck up and send them exploding out of a volcano. The kids, who am I kidding, we all had fun shooting them at each other.

The hotel had a refrigerator and microwave so we ate breakfast and lunch in the room and went out for dinner. We had cereal, oatmeal, bp & j sandwiches, easy mac, leftover Moose Jaw pizza, fruit, and various snacks.

The plan for Friday, the day we left, was to play at the playhouse, check out, go tour down town, eat lunch somewhere outside and then head home. The first part went flawlessly until we went on our downtown tour. The only thing open was the candy store, which I was planning on making the grand finale, but that's all there was to do. So we hit the candy store and guess what the kids picked out?

Yep, they all wanted the biggest sucker they could find and no the girls did not pick out suckers to match their outfits. That was just a funny coincidence.

Guess who was the last one to finish their sucker? Eloise took her sweet time. We weren't really in a hurry, but it was cold out. Also, while we were eating our treats (Tim and I picked out some saltwater taffy) it started snowing. Hard. Guess where lunch was served?

If you guessed in the van, then you're right. And even that was going just fine until I knelt on a gogurt that was in the passenger seat. It shot directly at the drivers seat and on the dash. Luckily, Tim was still outside with Eloise or he would have been covered in yogurt. We all had a great laugh about it. We finished our lunch and headed home.

We all had a great time. We were on our own schedule and went where the wind took us. I think we ALL needed this mini vacation. It was so nice to spend some quality time with my family. I think we'll be making the Dells an annual winter adventure.