Great Wolf what! Not again.

Day 5 Gratitude - Kids (part 1)

Big, little, or anywhere in between, kids can help you put perspective on things.

So, on occasion, I have been called practical, sensible, pragmatic, well you get the picture. I take these as compliments (I am sure that is how they were intended :). But living a practical life (sounds like a reality show) sometimes means I can overlook an opportunity to have fun that is not within the confines of the GTA. Now I want to be clear I have never been called a party pooper or boring (at least not to my face); I can have fun just as much as the next A-Type professional project manager.

Case in point; today we are all enjoying the fun of Great Wolf Lodge. Not a place I personally would opt to go to (staying at a hotel when I don't have to never really occurs to me as fun - curse of travelling a lot), but when you have kids, the places you end up are often not places we would have at the top of our Bucket List destination entries. But seeing our two run around, in and out of water geysers, speeding down water slide tubes, dumping buckets of water on unsuspecting passersby makes you realise that kids are all about fun. And their essence of fun is contagious.

So while my lips turned blue and I lost feeling in all my extremities, I am smiling while I shiver. The two hour drive in the snow; misguiding GPS, and lack of non-fast food food options - it was all worth it to see the look on E's face as she came screaming down the Niagara Rapids Run or J's smile as he surfed the waves in Rainbow Lake. And the grandfather looking a little pale at the bottom of the Woolly Mammoth gave me a great idea ... next time my parents can bring the kids, and I and G can do something more practical, like watch a marathon session of Monty Python movies. :)