SeaWorld!

Yesterday we made our annual pilgrimage to SeaWorld in San Antonio. Anheuser-Busch has a great program that allows active military and their families to visit one of their parks once a year for free so we have gone for several years even before we had kids. For any military families out there that didn't know about it it's called Here's to the Heroes. Anyway - thumbs up to SeaWorld & Anheuser-Busch! I didn't know if I'd have a problem getting in without Chris this year and even took a copy of his orders with me just in case. I didn't need to worry though. They let me sign the paper for him and in we went. My cousin Kelli came with us and it was a great help to have another adult to keep an eye on the boys. They were pretty good all day though.

This year there were actually a few new or changed up shows.The 4D show had changed. It's now a Sesame Street show. This was the first thing we went to and the boys loved it! I guess it is pretty cool to get water sprayed on you and air blown on you while watching a movie.
Right next to that theater was a Sesame Street play area where we watched another Sesame Street show and then got to meet the characters. Zachary wanted to see each and every one and I think he did. Elmo never came out but all the rest did. Alex couldn't have cared less.






We did let the boys play a bit after that but not too long. There was too much to see to waste it on a playground (in my opinion)!

We saw several good shows - Azul (Great!), One Ocean (the new Shamu show), and The Cannery Row Capers (it actually changed a bit this year) but I didn't get any pictures of the shows. Here we are hanging out and waiting for Shamu.

The Sea Lions behind the show. There were about three sweet little babies in there.
Alex was especially anxious to get to the water park. We played in the wave pool where Zachary would sink to the bottom after each wave & then pop back up. That's exactly what he wanted to do. He WOULD NOT let anybody help him to jump over the waves. We also played on the splashy play place (not the real name - lol). I could only catch Alex for a second and not Zachary at all. They were moving too much in there.
One of the last shows we saw was yet another Sesame Street show - Elmo & the Bookaneers. This was another new one for us and about pirates that liked to read.
A ton of kids stood around the stage to watch and the characters would touch their hands from time to time. Alex & Zachary started out sitting with me & Kelli but then moved to the front with the other kids.
One our way out of the park we ran into a few more characters. A shark that I don't know.
Last but not least, the whale himself, Shamu.
Zachary kept saying that he wanted to do all the jobs in the park. First he wanted to be one of the characters, then an animal trainer. Totally different end of the spectrum. We were all dead tired at the end of the day but we all had such a good time. We can't wait to go back again next year with daddy!