WOW! Great Wolf Lodge Webster, TX (just south of Houston)…SUPER BAD!

What an over sell and borderline false advertisement! Parents in the greater Houston area, WAIT a few months until you give this place a try. They are having HUGE & TOTALLY FORESEEABLE logistics, operational & directional signage issues really ticking off a lot of clients and visitors who I personally witnessed boiling with anger. The staff is under trained and clueless as to the park policies with many not even knowing wrist bands were required to be on the slides. There was no directional signage for just water park check in and we asked 3 employees who just directed us straight into the park through doors that must have been exit doors but were not marked and opened and went up slide lines only to be told after waiting in line 20 minutes, we need wrist bands. None of the slide lines are labeled confusing all guests and making them wait exorbitantly in lines for slides they didn’t even want to ride. Quite literally a trip to a Fast Signs the day before opening weeks or months ago would solved 80% of their operational issues.Remember this is coming from someone who worked professionally in event and facilities management for 30 years. Also, as a marketer, we ALL want to sell the best parts of our products and services. Calling this 18 or so individual slides for a water park is a joke. There are legitimately 3 different slides (2 of each type only for load capacity, but not variety) that you wouldn’t find at a Woodlands community pool.Also, do NOT be dumb like me and buy three 4-8pm passes for $65 each plus fees & tax ($219.47) plus $15 in parking & $24 for a locker for a total of $258.47 for me and two 8 year olds. An overnight room that includes ALL that would have cost me MUCH less especially with all the coupons out there. The family in front of me paid $89 for a room overnight that included it all. Also, the facility over books the water park making the lines very long as well as unorganized with plenty of people knowingly taking advantage and some unwittingly cutting.I will say to be fair when I asked to speak to a manager, she handled it beautifully and text book. She first listened without interrupting or trying to make excuses, agreed there was a signage/organization/customer communication problem, apologized, and gave us wrist bands on the spot without making us go all the way back to the hotel check in desk and asked if there was anything else she could comp like googles to make things right as best she could within her middle management power. We took nothing, but thanked her for rectifying the situation for us quickly and professionally. This is a parent’s perspective. My 8 year old twin daughters had a blast and I enjoyed each of the 3 slides once and then repeat times for their benefit solely on those repeat trips.

Do NOT Tell Me Nor My Kids To SMILE!

One of the things I’ve always tried to do is to encourage my children to express their feelings openly and without shame.

I really don’t like if anyone ever tells them to smile (and correct ANYONE who does so immediately) as I also HATE being told that ever by anyone. I tell them to smile when they feel like smiling and that just because someone is not smiling doesn’t mean they aren’t happy as people have all different types of personalities and ways of expressing themselves.

Here is where that parenting belief meets my addiction for novelty T-Shirts & comedy.

Third Eye Blind for My 50th Birthday Celebrated with My Twin 8 Year Old Daughters…ROCKED!!!

And my faith in humanity is once again restored. There are good wholesome people I. The world that care about more than just themselves and those they know immediately.

The woman 2 rows behind us tapped me on the shoulder at the end of the show and said, “I hope you don’t mind, but I took video (above) of you dancing with your daughters because y’all looked like you were having so much fun. Can I share it to your phone?”

You might be tempted to think Third Eye Blind was a one trick pony with the song most of you remember, Semi Charmed Life which was an anthem for the late 90s or some of you at best might be able to conjure up Jumper and How’s It Going to Be unless you were a die hard fan over the years since there self titled debut smash album hit platinum from 1997.

However, you’d be wrong and if you attended the concert tonight without any prep, you would quickly remember many more songs and feel time warped to your lives in the late 90’s just post college if your my age. Lead singer Stephen Jenkins is RIPPED from working out and at 60 next month looks and plays as good as he ever has with band mates. Dad had a draw from my daughters when their split decision/guess came out as one saying older and one saying younger than me. Brooklyn is sleeping in the backyard tonight.

On a seperate note, Explaining the subtle differences to 7 and 363/365th year olds between Punk Rock, Geek Rock, Alternative Rock, Grunge Rock & Pop Rock and the fact that some bands are more than one of those things at once whether they like it or not can be…challenging!

Only thing I’ve achieve so far is getting them to understand that if they’ve heard any of these songs on the radio and not just by Daddy playing them on Alexa makes the band at least Pop Rock to a degree.😂. They looked at me crazy when I said Geek Rock is just Punk Rock with Nerd Glasses & we would be seeing WEEZER soon with their Bubbas where Daddybused to work.

Parents, any advice on an analogy for 2nd Graders???