So this last weekend we were up at the Great Wolf water park again, this time with our good friends Dan & Julie and their boys, joining Maverick was his cousin Z-Dog. The water park was its usual cavalcade of fun — insane slides, a great pool, a lot of stairs.
What must be mentioned is Sunday morning. We awoke, hungry, dreaming of the Paul Bunyan Cook Shanty. With the recent memory of their awesome vittles dancing in our heads, we were stoked.
But we had a problem. A big problem.
It was 9:45 AM, and we had to be out of our room by 11:00 AM. No problem we thought, the last time were were there the place was dead. Big mistaken.
The line it would turn out was out the door when we finally made it to Paul’s shanty. Crap. I looked at my watch. Crap. Time for a backup plan.
Looking across the street the IHOP looked like our best bet. But then we saw something that till the day I die will haunt me — The Wild West Buffet.
Hey it was the Dells, might as well make it fun for the kids right? Wrong. The Wild West Buffet turned out to be the dirtiest, greasiest, nastiest buffet I have ever had the misfortune to frequent.
I mean you know you are in for a bad experience when you walk into the urine scented bathroom to see a guy sitting in an open stall taking a duke. Stop breathing, turn around.
Once they were able to find some clean spoons, we eventually ate if you can call that eating. Its safe to say an Army MRE would have been a better meal that that poor excuse for a buffet.
Driving home we could only laugh as we passed place after place that would have been a better choice. After my last visit to the Dells I was convinced it was one of the greatest places in the world. And don’t get me wrong, it is fun as hell. Just be aware that beneath that gleaming veneer are places that are rotten to the core. LOL.
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