At Great Wolf Lodge, there's adventure for the whole family.
You and your pack can splash away in the indoor water park where it's always a perfect 84 degrees.
There is a massive wave pool, a lazy river and tons of water slides, including ones that your family can all enjoy together.
And the fun doesn't stop there.
Get ready to explore adventure-packed attractions like Magic Quest, a live-action game that takes place throughout the lodge, plus the Northern Lights Arcade.
There's also a bunch of great dining options and complimentary daily events, like nightly dance parties, all under one roof.
With 23 lodges across the country, you're always only a short drive away from adventure.
In fact, I'm excited to check out one of the Northeast Lodges with my family soon.
So bring your pack together at a lodge near you.
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From the brains behind Brains On, this is the Moment of Um.
Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios.
I'm Anna G.
I'm not the world's most graceful person.
Sure, I can hop skip, jump and even bop around on the dance floor, but I also fall down a lot like a lot.
I trip over my own feet or over a bump in the sidewalk.
I've tripped over logs.
I've tripped over dogs.
One time I got startled by a car honk and I walked straight into a street sign.
So embarrassing.
Sometimes I think moving around would be a lot easier if I didn't have legs.
I mean, snakes don't have legs and they don't trip, right?
Plus, even if they did fall, they're already on the ground, so it wouldn't hurt so much.
We got this question from a listener, too.
I'm Kian.
I'm Amaria from Promise, Indiana.
My question is, Why did snakes lose their legs?
Indeed, snakes' evolutionary ancestors had legs and they lost them over millions of years, and we know now that it was to help them move more efficiently underground inside burrows.
I'm Emily Taylor.
I'm a professor of biological sciences at Cal Poly, which is a university in San Luis Obispo, California.
Snakes basically used to be like lizards.
They share a common ancestor with lizards, and then this one lineage lost their legs over evolutionary time, millions of years ago.
Actually, it happened multiple different times because there's legless lizards now, too.
But this one lineage was really, really, really successful and gave rise to thousands of species.
Those ones are snakes.
When it comes to moving underground, inside burrows snakes, which are not only limbless but also really long, can move much faster and much more efficiently, meaning they spend less energy to do it than something like a lizard.
And we see this because Lots of lizards that also move around underground have little tiny legs, which shows they might be in the process evolutionarily, of losing those legs too.
I gotta say, I'm pretty jealous of snakes.
Their bodies are incredible.
They have a long, flexible backbone and hundreds of ribs.
Their jaws have a special kind of hinge that lets them open their mouth super wide.
Imagine how tall I could make my sandwiches if I had a jaw like that.
And snakes can scoot through tunnels faster than I ever could.
But I guess I like having regular human legs, even if I'm kind of clumsy.
Well, guess I better get going.
I'm okay.
Moment of I'm is produced by.
We had editing help from Shayla Farzan and Rachel Breeze and engineering help from Alex Simpson.
Our theme song is by Mark Sanchez.
Our executive producer is Beth Perlman.
The executives in charge of APM Studios are Chandra Kavadi, Alex Shaffert, and Joanne Griffith.
A big special snaky thanks this week goes out to our pal Emily Taylor.
See you next time and the next day and every weekday.
Until then.
