Gray Weather Survival Guide

The sky may be gray, but that’s no reason to feel blue. We’ve come up with plenty of ways to survive

By: Written By Francine Ruley and Lorna Yee with Amelia Apfel, Thea Chard, Brangien Davis, Rachel Hart, Manny Lewis and Kate Calamusa |   January 2010   |  FROM THE PRINT EDITION

Get in touch with your inner dolphin in The Hyatt at Olive 8’s saline pool.

5. Engage in Water Play
If another trip to the indoor community pool just won’t cut it, take it up a million notches at the ginormous water park/megahotel Great Wolf Lodge, in Grand Mound, just north of Centralia. Spend a day or two here (you have to bunk here to use the park) and you won’t have to breathe cold air for days. This spanking clean place has it all: restaurants with cute campground tent booths, a lodge-like lounge with vaulted ceiling, a spa (one for kids, too, natch) and, of course, the indoor water park. With giant water slides, a wicked wave pool, a shallow area for the little ones, indoor and outdoor hot tubs—plus an air temp always set at a balmy 84 degrees—you’ll feel the urge to slather on some sunscreen.