Weekend at the Waterpark

We had a great weekend at Lodge at Cedar Creek, in Rothschild, WI. We got our first major snowstorm of the year on Friday, which was shocking, considering the night before they were calling for a trace to an inch of snow in Rhinelander. Well, Friday morning I dropped Noah and Anna off at school, and then went to Walmart with Amaya to pick up some groceries to take with us to the hotel. We were in Walmart for about an hour, and when we came out, there were about 4 inches of snow covering everything!! It was coming down so fast, the two of us and our groceries were covered in snow before we made it to our car (no easy feat in 4 inches of snow....). It was unbelievable! When it was all said and done, Rhinelander got 12 1/2 inches of snow!!!

Anyway, I was worried we'd have to cancel our trip because of the snow, but the road crews are awesome up here! They certainly know how to deal with a foot of snow, no problem! We didn't leave Rhinelander until around 7 PM to head to the hotel, and the roads were fine. We went a little slow, took about an hour and a half to get there. It was too late to go to the water park that night, but we spent all day Saturday in the water. Exhausting....but a lot of fun.

On the way to the hotel, the girls were discussing the boys at school, how most of them are jerks and such, and how they hoped there would be some cute boys at the hotel/water park. Well guess what....

We got up to our hotel room, and our hallway was FULL of BOYS!!!! Talking with one of the dads, I found out there was a hockey tournament in town, and they were staying at our hotel!!!! Apparently most of them in our hallway....so you can imagine the fun we had with 3 twelve year old girls and a hotel full of cute boys! Of course this gave us bargaining power....the girls wanted time in the game room, and we wanted dinner alone with no kids....so we traded! Pavan and I went to dinner Saturday night at a restaurant in the lobby of the hotel. They were having a prime rib buffet, GREAT FOOD!!! And the girls got lots of tokens and time in the game room, oh and room service pizza. We had a great time.

Nothing else going on here. I've been online all morning trying to finish up Christmas shopping for the kids. I haven't even begun to think about shopping for anyone else....Pavan and I have agreed that if we want something for Christmas, to order it for ourselves. That way we actually get what we want! Truly though, Christmas (as far as all the presents go) is for the kids. The part I enjoy as an adult is watching the joy on my children's faces, spending time with family, and celebrating the birth of that beautiful baby Jesus, who went on to become our savior. Very touching indeed.

Have a great week!

Rebecca