Wilderness at the Smokies

WAHAHAHA!!!

Matt had his annual "hug it out in the mountains after playing 18 holes of golf then gossiping over Texas Hold'Em while sitting in the hot tub male bonding" trip in early July.  Sooooo why not plan a girls trip!!!
Mom came down and we had big plans to live it up while the cat was away!  We wanted to do something fun the first night because we were going to have a house full of boys and wanted to get the heck out of dodge!  :)  We booked a room at The Wilderness at the Smokies and were SO excited!!  I have heard great things about this place and couldn't wait to check it out for ourselves!  There is a huge indoor water park and two outdoor water parks.  We got a little held up since Mom got stuck (as in STOPPED) in traffic for a while on the way down.  By the time we got to the hotel, the water parks were already closed BUT we got a chance to look at them to get prepped for the next day. When we woke up, Mom and I got a wild hair up our bums and decided we NEEDED to stay another night to make sure the girls got in plenty of play time!!  WHY NOT, right??
We had a blast and were excited to see that there were areas for the little tots AND big kids!  We got to check out all three water parks and the favorites were the wave pools and the swings that bounced in the water.  There was a GIANT bucket of water that dumped periodically and Grace made sure to stay FAR away from it!  She did get a little brave on our last morning and I talked her into going near it where there were all kinds of "big kid" things to do!  Anna was pretty content to sit by the edge of the water and let the "waves" hit her in the legs!  Mom and I paired up with the girls and sat on a tube when the waves started in the pool.  They were a TAD bigger than I thought and I'm pretty sure Anna had bruises on her arms from where I had a death grip on her as we smashed into the "rocks" and other people around us!  That was a little scary I will have to say.
Unfortunately, I didn't get many good pictures because Matt had the camera at his man trip.  Please take a minute to laugh with me at the first picture.  That was the amount of luggage/STUFF that we had for what we thought was going to be ONE NIGHT!!!!  WAHAHA!!  Hey, you never know what you're going to need with two toddlers!!!!
Mom ended up extending her stay until the following Thursday to help me drive back to Indiana for Anna's birthday party.  We had such a good time at the hotel, going to parks, ordering out, and LOTS of girl talk!!!!  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU Nana for all you did!!!  Come back again soon!!!