Saturday, March 17, 2012

Spring Break at the Dells

As soon as Kevin's bulb was taken out he started planning a spring break vacation. We weren't sure we could take a family vacation at all this year, so he was really super excited to take the family somewhere soon.

We have done lots of water parks but had never been to the Dells so that's where Kevin decided we should go. I do not like water. I do not like to be cold. I do not like to get wet. I do not like to get splashed. But the girls love water. They love to swim. They love [moderate] slides. Water does not make them cold. And I love my family. So we went to the Dells.

There are so many different resorts there and Kevin wanted to try 2 different ones so the first night we stayed at Mt Olympus. It is on the lower end of the "resort" scale but still nice. Kevin chose it to go to their indoor theme park. The girls enjoyed it.


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The next day we started off at Dells' “Downtown”. One place the girls were excited to go was “Wizard Quest”. It’s a fantasy game where a team solves clues to unlock 4 captured Wizards. It was great fun after Bryn decided it wasn’t scary. We were there almost 2 hours and still didn’t solve all the clues and only unlocked 1 wizard.

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The weather was wonderful which was awesome.

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The highlight for Kevin might have been lunch; we found a Famous Dave’s. I have to admit I loved it, too.

That night we changed resorts to The Wilderness. Kevin decided to upgrade our room after he made the initial reservation. The girls had their own room with bunk beds, closet and tv;

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we had a very nice kitchen that we didn’t use;

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and a nice comfy king-sized master bed with our own tv, a great seating area with a tv, and 2 bathrooms.

The Wilderness is HUGE; there are 3 separate pool areas, it takes 20 minutes to walk anywhere, and lots of activities besides water so I was pleasantly surprised.

Kevin bought an underwater camera/video for this vacation though he forgot to bring it the first two days. I was excited to try it and the first opportunity was at the wave pool.
Pictures:
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UnderwaterClaire
And video:




The Dells was lots of fun and I was super duper impressed with The Wilderness. Even though it took a long time to walk anywhere, but it was always worth it. There were great play areas, we played 3D golf

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stopped at the candy store twice,

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girls drove bumper boats,

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and enjoyed the great pools.

Crystal&Claire

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