I can't believe it is almost July. This has been a crazy month. The "bigs" went to Texas at the beginning of June to spend some time with the grandparents...Ryan and I joined them the weekend of the 12-13th for my brothers wedding. We drove back late Sunday night the 13th and then had another wedding in Texas Saturday the 19th. Then...we thought, since we had such a relaxing summer so far, that we would leave for vacation on the 22nd! We had such a great time. After many talks and weighing options and finances, we decided to take the kids to San Antonio this year. We decided it would be fun to take the kids to Sea World. So...before picture....
I did not take an after picture for many reasons...
#1-The ground temperature in Sea World is 147 degrees...in the shade.
#2-We have decided that the engineers at Sea World are ingenious...they pave the streets with
blacktop...so you don't mind paying $400 for a bottle of Aquafina.
#3-I think my camera melted in my bag
#4-If I tried to take another picture at this point, my entire family would have trampled me on
on the steaming blacktop streets of Sea World.
The shows were awesome. We saw all that we could....mostly because there was shade there! The only one we couldn't see was the Beluga whale and dolphin show...we were very bummed, but found out the 2nd day that we were there why we couldn't...there was a little baby beluga whale born the first day we were there. We got to see him. He was so cute! :) There were 2 different Shamu shows. They were great. At one point, there were 5 killer whales in the pool at the same time. It was super cool, but I'm not gonna lie...I had nightmares that night about one of my kids falling into that pool. Geez.
So, we went to sit down at the first Shamu show after our body temperature was somewhere around 115 degrees. We intentionally sat in the splash zone, because at this point, you would kiss the whale on the mouth if he would splash you just a little. Now setting up this story, you must know...that the frog is in a little bit of a dress stage right now. She can't wear pants (because apparently princesses don't wear pants), so yes, at Sea World, she wore a dress...and her new hot pink jellies complete with jewels on them. Watching the show...PRAYING for some sort of splash...when here it goes, we got soaked. See picture below...
(from 5 people away...VERY hacked) "MOM! THAT KILLER WHALE JUST GOT MY FANCY SHOES ALL WET!" IT was awesome! I think everyone in a 4 row radius of where we were standing was rolling. She soon got over it, and knew that whenever we went to see a show, it was very likely that her "fancy" shoes were going to get wet.
Overall, Ella did great...we didn't ever stop for nap time...obviously, since we were in Amusement parks and downtown...poor thing, she just decided to sleep when she could! She was a trouper!More pictures to come....
