Wow - not exactly where to begin to recap this past weekend. We left on Friday for San Antonio, TX - the plan was for 2 days at Sea World with the girls & Aunt Jill. Mission accomplished! We had such a great time! Upon arriving at our hotel we dumped off our stuff and headed back out for some bbq for dinner. It had been a pretty long drive - the girls were great but we were all beat and went straight to bed once we got back to the hotel. Believe it or not - we all slept in till nearly 8:30 a.m. the next morning! Amazing! So, after a great breakfast we were off to a day filled excursion at Sea World. I mapped out our day by the show times and who to see first. Happy to say we got to see all the animal shows that we intended on, saw the dophin cove, the aquarium to see the sharks (Sam's personal favorite) and the girls even got on a few of the rides at Shamu harbor. Back to the hotel for dinner and some somores by the fire pit! While eating (shrimp from the shrimp boil - we got the last order and we are sure it was enough to feed about 6 people) a guy came up to ask us where we got the shrimp - I recognized him from one of the shows at Sea World....so, we offered to have him and his friend (also works at Sea World)have some and we got talking. Chuck (our new friend) is one of the head animal trainers and was so interesting to talk to. They left after about an hour...we headed out to the fire pit only to see Chuck return to hang out with his "new" friends. The girls LOVED making and eating the somores! Chuck invited us to come back to the "viva" show at 3:00 and then he'd take us behind the "scenes" to see the beluga whales and dolphins after the show. It was so amazing! We all (even the girls) got to touch and feed the belgua whales. on Sunday morning we also arrived at the park right as it opened....yes 9:00 and went straight to dophin cove to feed them....we all got to touch the dophins too! We rode some of the rides and then went to the water park area at Sea World for a few hours - so fun! Sydney, Neal and Jill got to do afew more rides since they were taller than Sam....that was abit difficult for Samantha to understand - all in due time sweetie! So, after all was said and done when you ask the girls what their favorite part of the vacation was they both say Shamu and touching Martha - the Beluga whale (Big thanks to Chuck for doing so much for us)!
Now back at home - house clean (AMEN!!), laundry nearly all done, dishwasher loaded we are all ready for a good night sleep for a very busy week ahead! It's good to be home even though we all love being on vacation.
This was a great learning in getting us prepared for our big vacation next spring to Disney World...we found out that the girls can function (quite well may we add) with only a short 20 min. nap in the stroller! yeah!
Sorry for so many pictures - couldn't pick just a few! Enjoy!
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