Weekend Away
I’m just now getting around to posting this. This past weekend, as some of you may know, I was at Wisconsin Dells. It was Mike’s parents, his brother, his brother’s friend, the kids, Mike, and I. We stayed at the Wilderness Lodge and Resort. We had a two bedroom condo with a full kitchen, dining room, and living room.
It was a lot of fun. When we got there on Friday afternoon we all went out to eat at Buffalo Phil’s. It’s a really good restaurant. We all ate our fill of food and then headed over to the arcade to use the 4 free tokens we got with dinner. $15 spent later, we were finally ready to go to our room. Mike’s parents, his brother, and his brother’s friend had already been to the room. We walked in and were amazed. It was such a nice room and let me tell you Mike’s Mom got an AMAZING deal. We got the entire weekend for under $360. Which is cheap. Especially for getting a two bedroom condo is a waterpark resort. So we unloaded our stuff and let the boys run around for a while. After the two hour car ride, they were filled with energy.
Once we all settled in, we got changed and ready for the waterpark. There were four waterparks at this resort. Three of them are accessible, while the other one is way off on the other end, so we didn’t go to this one. After a twenty minute walk, we finally arrived at the waterpark. The first one we went to was a big wave pool. It had one water slide ride and a small little kids area off to the side. We played here for about an hour. The minute we walked in Mikhail began to shiver. The water was heated but not like bath water so he continued to shiver while he was playing. He refused to get out though. After a while, we were able to finally pry him from the pool and Mike’s Mom held him. Nick, Mike, and I played in the wave pool for a while. Then we continued our journey to the other waterpark.
The walk was short, maybe five minutes. We walked in and Grandpa had Mikhail. He was falling asleep in his arms. He was wiped out already! Mike’s parents said that we should just say with Nick and let him play for a while. They were going to take Mikhail upstairs to get ready for bed. Nick, Mike, and I laid on the lazy river for three laps. We let Nick get hit with this giant bucket of water. We decided it was late enough and began to head back to the room. The walk back was freezing. It was so cold in the hallways. You’d think they would turn up the heat! It was negative zero outside. We finally got back to the room and found Mikhail still awake and playing.
After we got all our wet suits off it was time to relax. It was a long day and tomorrow would be even longer. I put the kids to bed, grabbed my school books and began to study. We stayed up until around 10:30pm or so that night before heading off to bed. It was an exhausting day and the waterpark just exhausted us more.
Saturday morning we all woke up and had breakfast. Since we had a kitchen and dining room we decided to make pancakes and bacon for breakfast. After a few cups of coffee and relaxing we were ready to start the day. Mike’s parents took the kids to the giant play area and arcade while Mike and I got ready. We were finally ready about an hour later. We headed down for another 2o minute walk to the play area. We grabbed the kids suits so they could just go directly to the third waterpark.
We got to the waterpark around 11am. Mikhail was already showing signs of being tired so we didn’t force him to go in the water. Nickolas booked as fast as he could in to the play area. It was a giant jungle gym covered with spraying water jets everywhere. He had a blast while we sat holding Mikhail making sure he was alright. The only thing that sucked was I had a cold when I got there, and apparently everyone else was getting sick too. They woke up with coughs and stuffy noses. We stayed at the waterpark for a few hours before going back. We decided to get Mikhail down for a nap while we were there in the room. We waited around for a little while and decided to have dinner. I was wiped out by this time. The cold I had was really kicking my ass.
After dinner, I was ready to call it a night. Nickolas was ready to go back to the waterpark. I kept asking everyone whats going on. Mike was sick as hell with something with his stomach. I didn’t want to take Mikhail down to the waterpark after how late it was. I didn’t know who was coming with me. All the sudden, Mike’s Mom was like, “Alright Nick. C’mon lets go.” She then took him to the waterpark. I was going to go, I just didn’t want to go by myself because I had no idea where I was going. So, after about an hour I made Mike come with me. We headed down to the waterpark and found his mom. Nick was playing in the water underneath the giant bucket.
We stayed there for a little while but it didn’t last long. We ended up getting Nick back to the room around 9pm. He was wiped out. Mikhail was wiped out. It was time for them to go to sleep. I laid down with Mikhail in his bed until he fell asleep. Nickolas followed right behind him. After the boys were asleep, Mike, his brother, his brother’s friend, and I all went to the arcade and played pool. They shut us down at 11pm and turned off all the games on us. Even though we were in the middle of a game. After that Mike and I decided to just go back to the room and turn in for the night.
Sunday morning was typical ‘day of leaving’ craziness. Everything had to be packed and ready to go by 10am. We got everything ready and all packed up and were out of our room by 9:30am. After loading up the car we decided to take the kids to the giant play area again so they can burn a little energy before our two our car ride home. For the most part, they did a good job. After playing some games in the arcade and redeeming our tickets, we headed out. We took our journey back home and made it there safely.
All in all, it was an enjoyable weekend. Vacations stress me out. It’s not my environment. I’m on high alert watching the kids because they’re in a new place and can get in to many new things. I end up yelling at them a lot more because I don’t feel comfortable letting them do what they’re doing. Which then in turns gets me more in trouble because I’m told, “leave them alone, they’re fine.” This ends up stressing me out more because now I feel like I can’t do anything right. Bleh! Vacations stress me out.
Thankfully both the boys were fairly well behaved. I didn’t have to yell. Although we were all sick it was very enjoyable. I can’t wait to go back there. This wasn’t the first time we’ve gone to the Dells but it was the first time with the kids there. SO yea… that was our weekend.
