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great wolf lodge

erin

Jan 18, 2019 — 1 min read

I've been wanting to spend a couple nights at a hotel with a waterpark for a long time. Emma has a 4 day weekend... and it's supposed to be really cold, so it seemed like the perfect weekend.

We checked in, unpacked, then walked around the hotel to see everything. The whole place is full of Emma's favorite things - bunk beds, donuts, ice cream, candy, arcade, gem mining, smashed pennies and water slides.

Within an hour of us being here Emma asked if we could just live here.

I'm pretty sure Olivia is loving it too. 😂💕

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