It does not get much better than vacation in the water with the family!!  We just got back from Great Wolf Lodge in Washington (www.greatwolflodge.com/grandmound/lodge).  We spent three days and two nights there.  They even gave us a double upgrade on our room and the kids got to sleep in their own cabin in our room.  The waterpark is amazing!  Kaitlyn loved the wave pool and Maddie loved what I called the squirt pool.  I call it that because it is perfect for their size and you can squirt water out of everything.  Both girls did try one of the bigger slides a couple of times but since you can't go down with a parent they were a little scared.  Although I did get Kaitlyn to go down one of the adult slides on an innertube with me.  I'm laughing while I write this because I didn't know what it would be like and both of our eyes were the size of golfballs at the end because it was mega fast and pitch black.  Yikes, I don't wonder why she wouldn't go on that one again.  I felt so bad.  But Mark and I got to go on their big innertube slide called the tornado a couple of times when we traded off watching little ones with some friends that went with us.  Let me just say you could pee your pants in the blind drop off that it has if you weren't so scared at the moment.  All I knew was that it was pitch black, I was jetting backwards fast and then there was nothing, just falling....  Then it sends you in a giant tube (tornado) where you cascade up and down the walls.  Pretty cool ride once you are standing on solid ground. :)  We played for hours in the waterpark a couple times a day.  Loved it!!!