Sea World Aug 7th

Now that Christmas is over, I feel like I have some extra time to work on my blog.  I know I am way behind and I probably won't catch up anytime soon (especially considering that I've got a birthday party to start planning for Paige's January birthday).  Baby steps though...

 Continuing with our sabbatical...August 7th was spent at Sea World. 

 We spent the first little while walking around looking at animals.

 Then Garrett and Maggie talked Lydia into going on this roller coaster/water ride called 'Journey to Atlantis'.  Lyd's not a fan of roller coasters.  

 This is them coming down the hill.  I think she liked it though, but she didn't go on any more.  

 Seeing the Beluga whales in the wild winter arctic area.

 Real snow/ice wall in the winter arctic area.  

 Penguins

 Aquarium

 Then we went to see a Sea lion and sea otter show.  We grabbed some hot dogs and chips and ate while we watched.  This was the description of the show:

Enjoy hilarious live-action TV and music spoofs performed by SeaWorld’s® resident sea lion comedy team—Clyde and Seamore. Put on your investigator’s cap with “Sea Lion S.I.” and watch show biz dreams come true on “Dancing with the Pinnipeds!”

 It was a cute show.  

 Then we went to watch the Dolphin show.  It was pretty good. 

 During this show, Paige started complaining that she wasn't feeling very good.  Her stomach was hurting and she had a headache and she said she was cold with goosebumps, even though it was a pretty hot day.  She felt pretty warm and I was worried about her.  I offered to go back to the hotel with her, but Garrett didn't want us to go --he thought she was fine.  We went to a gift shop to find some Tylenol for her.  We gave her that and were going back and forth about what we should do. At one point we were all going to go back to the hotel, and then we were all staying.  It wasn't very fun for awhile.  Garrett thought maybe she was getting heat stroke or something and went to find her an umbrella to keep her out of the sun.  He stayed with her in the shade for awhile and told us to go watch a show.  It was a dumb show and I was worried about Paige so we left that and went to find them.  Garrett suggested we go on a ride together and tried to convince Paige to go with us even though she was adamant about going home.  While waiting in line, we were all pretty grumpy, but by the time we got on the ride, Paige's medicine was kicking in and we were all doing better.  

 The ride we went on was "Shipwreck Rapids."  You know the one where you ride in a round raft/tube thing and go down the rapids where you get completely soaked?  That's the one.  Poor Noah had no idea that he was going to get wet, and when he got wet--he was not happy!!

 We all had fun though and did get completely wet!

 Trying to clean my glasses on a soaked shirt!

 Then we ran to watch another show with the killer whales.

 Poor Paige

 Eating some cheetos for a snack while watching the show.

 After the show, Garrett took the 4 kids down to watch Shamu swim around. 

 Maggie and I went to ride the roller coaster called "Manta".  It was so awesome--we both loved it!  

 waiting in line with Maggie

 Our picture at the end

 We met up everyone else at the kids area (the Sesame street play area.)  They were riding the rides there.  

 Such a cute picture of my boys!  

Notice the spots around Noah's mouth?  I think he and Bella and Paige got hand, foot and mouth disease because they all had these spots.  (I may have already mentioned that in the last post, but it was so long ago--I can't remember.)

Lydia, Bella and Noah had a fun time on the rides, but Paige was sitting on a wall pretty miserable.  So, we headed back to the hotel.  This is a picture as we were leaving.  When we got back, I gave baths and showers while Garrett got pizza.  We gave Paige more medicine and sent her to bed while we ate and watched TV.  Unfortunately, she threw up in the middle of the night, so that affected our plans for the next day.  We were going back to Legoland to spend some time in the water park.