Mini vacation

My sister and her family were in our neck of the woods for a wedding last weekend so they decided to come our way and have a few more fun days with the kids before school starts back up. On Monday we all went to SeaWorld for the day. It was hot but we all had fun. We saw a few shows (can't miss Shamu!). We tried to ride a few rides but the ones we wanted were either broken or had too long of a wait for inpatient kids. We spent part of the day at the water park there which might have been the biggest hit of the day. Well, until we came home and went to dinner (Clear Springs - yum!).




The last few times we've gotten together Alex (3) and Hannah (4) seem to be great buddies and play together well. This time they got into trouble together well too. Chris found them in Alex's bathroom with half a tube of toothpaste squirted into the sink and both the kids hiding in the closet. We still don't know who did it - Alex says it was him and Hannah says it was her. See true friendship - somebody is trying to take the blame for the other!

Yesterday Chris had to go back to work but the rest of us went to Natural Bridge Caverns. We thought this would be a nice cool thing to do since we were so hot the day before. Wrong! The cavern is around 70 degrees but with the humidity were told it would feel 80 - 85. That plus hiking up and down steep hills, often carrying a small child.......lets just say that we were hot and sweaty yesterday too. Everybody had to go home after that but we can't wait to visit again!

This is the "bridge" that the caverns are named for.The kids couldn't wait to climb on the big dinosaurs outside.