Over the weekend I took Sarah to Dallas for her birthday. Yes, her birthday was last month and yes, she did have a little party, but her main "gift" or "party" was to go to Dallas and go to the water park with her friend Natalie. I took that to mean she wanted to stay at the Great Wolf Lodge, so that's what we did.
We left Friday morning and were picked up by Natalie's mom, Larisa, and went to play and have lunch with one of my old friends Ellie. It was so great to catch up with them both. It was like nothing had ever changed and our kids didn't go to different schools and we didn't live a million miles away. The three of us have been friends since Andy was in Kindergarten (the two of them even longer) and I cannot begin to tell you how much I love hanging out with them. They don't judge and they just get me.
Unfortunately all good things have to come to an end so after we said good-bye to Ellie we got shaved ice at the most amazing shaved ice place ever that believe it or not is run out of a gas station. I promised Sarah we would go back at least one more time over the weekend and she is still mad at me that we never had time for a second visit.
We got the girls home and somewhat settled with Larisa's husband and we set out for dinner with a few more friends and then to my friend Jenny's new house. Overall the evening was wonderful. Friends, food, drinks and catching up with people I haven't seen in about a year.
On Saturday we moved kind of slowly in the morning but finally made it to the hotel. I got a room with a bunk bed for the girls and they loved it. Larisa and I loved it because there was a wall between them and us, haha. It didn't matter though because we were all so exhausted that we didn't go to bed much later than the girls.
The water park part of the hotel was pretty amazing. There were several slides and pools, a wave pool and a lazy river. The girls loved the lazy river and spent a lot of time in there, especially after they saw some guys totally lounging down the river on an inner tube and wanted to reproduce his pose. Unfortunately Sarah was about an inch too short to go on a few of the rides and the other big ones required her to ride with adult. You know what that means? I had to get wet. I hate getting wet, but I wasn't going to let her down on her birthday trip so I sucked it up and got wet, really wet. And I went backwards down a huge water slide and almost lost my lunch, all in the name of love for my little girl.
On Sunday we let the girls sleep in a little bit and then went back to the water park for a few more hours before we got to meet my super fun friend, Melanie, and her family for lunch and then head to the airport. It was a whirlwind of a weekend but I am so glad we got to go. Even though it was Sarah's weekend it was pretty much a present for me too!
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