Sea World
What a great day but I am sure tired. It was tough packing up everything, I finally gave up and let the kiddos watch TV as I packed up the car. I made the mistake of trying to take out one of the back seats to make more room. I got one side out easily but then had trouble getting the other one out. After sweating to death, I finally go it (I need Bret). We left for Sea World around 11:00 this morning. We picked up Paula and her kids. We were ecstatic to find all 5 kids sleeping in the car on the way to Sea World. We got there around 12:15 and fed the kiddos lunch. Then we went and checked out the new Bay of Play, Sesame Street. There was so much to do a little overwhelming. We first played with these musical instruments then went into the moon bounce. Too bad the kids could only be in it for a few minutes. Then we went to this other area kind of like a jumpy soft area and the kids had a blast. Nicole and Justin loved getting up as high as they could and jumping in. The kids tried to climb these net things unsuccessfully to try to get up on the bridges. Luckily we found another way in. The kids liked being on the bridges then we went in the sand box. There were some cool trucks and stuff in the sand box. Then we met up with Vena and Stacie. The kids wanted to ride a ride, so we went on the tea cups. I wouldn’t let the kiddos spin them though. Justin loved the ride and Nicole was indifferent to it. It just me sick. There was so much to do and look at in the Bay of Play. We saw Grover, Tully, Ernie and Bert, and Cookie Monster. Of course the kiddos wouldn’t go over to them. They just liked keeping their distance and waving. After I think 3 hours or so we finally made it out of the bay of play. We went over to see the dolphins. I got to pet one. The kiddos liked to look at them and say hi dolphin, big dolphin. We went over to the pet show. The kiddos were happy sitting on my lap and watching the show. They liked the cats! After we had to run over to the Shamu show. The kids love Shamu! They would tell me when Shamu was jumping, spinning, splashing. Justin and Nicole were also eating all their friends snack through the show too. After Shamu we went and got dinner. Nicole and Justin didn’t eat too much, too much snacking. But they both drank a ton of milk. After dinner Nicole and Justin seemed kind of hyper, so we separated from our friends for a bit. I let Justin and Nicole just run around and play. They got their hands painted. Justin got a doggie and Nicole a kitty. I didn’t get to wash them off before bed so paint will be everywhere, oh well. We just played on a grassy area for a while. Justin and Nicole were having a blast running, playing, etc. Nicole really liked watching the people jump on the trampoline thing. She was still too little to go on it, but maybe next time. I think she would have stayed there for hours and just watched the jumping. I decided to take the kids to see the penguins. They liked the moving walkway of course. Near the end Nicole got a little scared as it was dark in there, so we went back outside and saw the outside penguins. Then it was time to go home. I think it took us until about 9:00 before we were even on the rode to come home. Finally around 9:40 Justin and Nicole finally fell asleep. We dropped Paula and kids off and came home. I am exhausted! Got to go call hubby and go to bed.
