This year for Spring Break, Laurie & I knew we wanted to take the kids to do something fun, but were both on budget & time constraints. After a lot of looking around, we finally settled on Grizzly Jacks Grand Bear Resort in Utica. Only 1 1/2 hours away, plenty of room for Me, Mike, Laurie & the 3 kids, plus they have an indoor water park!
We hauled out Saturday afternoon (after getting to see the Easter Bunny at the Geneva Easter Egg Hunt!), and arrived at the resort shortly after check in. They had overbooked the rooms, so we got an awesome room upgrade!! Upgrade might be selling it short...we had 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a full kitchen & living room, and 3 fireplaces! The boys got to sleep in their own bunk bed room, and thought that was AWESOME!! Two of the bedrooms had whirlpool tubs, so the boys got to take a fun bath in one of them! They learned very quickly that the water has to be all the way over the jets before you turn them on, or you will spray water EVERYWHERE!
After we quickly unpacked Saturday, we went to the waterpark...all 3 kids LOVED it! Andrew had one smaller slide he could go down, but seemed to really enjoy the wave pool the best! He was loving jumping the waves. I was surprised by this, since he doesn't really like the waves at the beach in Florida! Maybe it's easier to be a little braver when the 'ocean' is way smaller scale! Liam was tall enough to go down the BIG BIG waterslides, and spent most of his time over on the other side of the park going down those ones! Evie and I hung out in the wave pool (when the waves were turned off). She LOVED being bounced around in circles in the water. We practiced floating on her back, but she wasn't a big fan! When the waves would turn on, I would sit her in the zero depth portion and let the water crash on her lap...she would sit and squeal and kick her legs, so I think she liked it! ;) We also took a couple laps around the lazy river, and she seemed to enjoy just floating around too.
For dinner, we got back to the room, and ordered pizza in. The boys crashed shortly after! We stayed out pretty late to take advantage of the water park.
The next morning, we got up & got breakfast then headed back to the water park. We spent an hour or so there, before going back to the room & packing up. They had an indoor amusement park that we planned on spending some time at, but by then the boys were WIPED! We went in, they rode the merry go round & dinosaur roller coaster, and then they wanted to go home. That was fine..we had the drive ahead of us, and I think the adults were more tired than the kids!
It was a totally fun 24 hours, and I think the kids really enjoyed themselves!
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