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Ethan Magic Questing I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down! Fun at the GWL No worries, the waves aren't too big! Wave pool fun! Life Jackets must be worn in the wave Pool! Mommy Said So! Kiddie Area! My playground! Thanks to my sister watching the "cheap savings blogs," we were able to join in on a fantastic rate at the Great Wolf Lodge! We arrived Friday, after the kids were dismissed from school at 11am, and arrived at the water park for "our adventure" around 130pm. We had a blast. The kids kept us water logged nearly the whole time. Red eyes, and a few scratches are the only things we have to show for this 24 hour blast o fun weekend. Charlie loved the wave pool, and spent most of her time battle the waves with me. We did get to enjoy a brief nap in the lobby, while Mark got in a few moments of reading. The GWL did such a wonderful job treating the kids to a great time, they even had a kids dancing night complete with a D. J....

All I really needed to know I learned in Kindergarten! I know that you know it is a book title but here it is a statement. Robert Lee Fulghum was right! As much as I hated that book, although I never even cracked it open to see what was inside, it finally hit me today that the shaping of my social life began in those early years! All this insight came to me today because Mark's friend Slaughter is living close to us and for the first time in a long while we got to really enjoy ourselves, enjoying others. So after they both left, I started asking myself why it is that I have a hard time getting to know other people. The answer came to me...kindergarten, first, and second grade shaped my view of relationships. Sure other things helped such as a horrible experience in high school where my friend defriended me because I told her parents she was going to commit suicide, and of course my first major boyfriend broke up with me because I didn't let him be spiritual enough! My First...