We headed up to Grapevine last Thursday and arrived at the resort 30 minutes before story time was about to begin. We headed upstairs to our room, unloaded our stuff, changed into our pj's and made it back down in time for story time. After story time, we walked around the resort, checking it out before heading to bed.
Friday, we started out nice and early with a yummy breakfast and headed straight to the water. There were slides, wave pools, a lazy river, pools with logs to jump across, pools with basketball hoops, hot tubs, more slides, and fun rides for 1, 2 or 5 people! We had a BLAST. I wasn't sure how Ezra was going to do because he is our more 'cautious' guy and he needs a lot of encouragement to just walk up the stairs on tall rides like that. BUT, once Brent was able to get him to go down one, he was going down them ALL. Emersyn even did all the rides/slides that she was tall enough for. It just was so much fun. We probably stayed in the water from 9-1, took a lunch/rest break, then headed back down till dinner. For dinner, we ordered a pizza and walked around the resort, looking at games, meeting different resort characters, and looking into the magic quest they had all around the resort.
Crazy side story: The resort has this magic quest adventure that is hidden all around the resort. You have to buy a wand, and a quest and then you are off finding clues to figure out the different levels to eventually beat this dragon. So MANY kids were doing it. EVERYONE walking around had this dang wand. Ezra wanted to do it sooo badly. After we looked into it, and seeing it was like 30$+ just for the wand, we said 'NO' and told him we could play games in the arcade and get ice cream instead. Well, he was upset about this and started crying a little bit. Not the whole throw a fit whine/cry but he was upset. This guy walks up to me and asks, "does your son want a wand?" I said, 'yes, but we aren't going to do it this time.' He continues to tell me that he wants to buy Ezra a wand. I declined him, politely, several times, but he was still persistent. Well, then we get Brent involved and Brent said "NO" several times to this man. He was STILL persistent. Well, after a while, the man buys Ezra a wand. It took forever for the ordeal to go down. Something about wanting to pay with cash, but he wasn't able to so he had to return and rebuy...CRAZY LONG TIME. Anyway, 54 DOLLARS later!!!! Ezra has a magic quest wand. So, part of our time was questing.. ahh. The girls and I got ice cream and went to story time with the Garrison girls while Brent and Ezra quested.
Saturday, we had a lazy morning and ate breakfast in the room. We packed up our stuff and loaded the car with the stuff we weren't going to need. We checked our shower bags in at the bell hop and headed back to the water. We spent the whole day at the water. The fun part this day was my brother and his family met us at the park and played with us the whole day. When it was time for dinner, we showered and headed out to Grapevine to meet my sister and her family for dinner. We celebrated Townes birthday with Mexican food and ice cream! We spent the night at my sisters and headed back home on Sunday.
It was a great weekend!
