We went to California a month ago but here I am still posting pictures! The beginning of this school year has been busy. You'd think I'd have things down pat by now but nope. I like to make things hard on myself and I've been doing new things in my class. Like my shape of the day cards. I had some decent ones but they weren't pretty. Now I've got a really pretty light blue set to match my light blue walls. My calendar pieces were pretty old. I have been teaching over ten years!!! Crazy. So I made some new ones. So back to California...we bought the So Cal City Pass from Costco and it included a day at SeaWorld. We drove an hour and a half from Anaheim to San Diego. The drive was actually not too bad. We get to SeaWorld and we're given the choice between normal parking and "premium" parking for double the money. You know where we parked. We were so close to the premium parking it would have been so silly to pay extra. SeaWorld is so big- it was so hard to figure out where to start first! The girls wanted to do the roller coasters first but the dolphin & killer whale shows were only at certain times so we decided to do those first:
Okay, so I don't believe in keeping whales in captivity and I feel kinda guilty posting these photos. They are such beautiful creatures, both dolphins and killer whales, and they deserve to be in the wide open sea. Ugh....I'm a hypocrite.
There was a lot to SeaWorld. There was so much for the girls to do. Here is some of what we did:
We found a bunny around a pond. The ducks were everywhere!
The girls got to touch the Manta Rays! They were really soft & slimy. One big guy came up and splashed Cassidy and boy was she ticked off! She said "I don't like the Manta Rays" and then she kept bringing up how the Manta had splashed her. On purpose.
This is one of the scarier rides I've been on. One of those towers is actually an elevator. You come to this black tunnel and there's scary music. You just don't know what's going to happen. Then you start to go up- on a tilt! The doors open at the top and you immediately go wooshing around the track again! I got completely soaked to the bone. I spent the rest of the day just damp. The girls wanted to go again but I refused. We went on the Manta Ray roller coaster instead. Here's the picture that SeaWorld was trying to sell for $15. We took a picture of the picture instead. Check out Olivia's face!! And Lexie looks so little! I was always turning around asking her to jiggle her restraint, asking the attendant to double check both girls.
Feeding the seals. Seals are Cassidy's favourite animal. She keeps insisting that she'll have a seal as a pet.
Checking out the penguins.
We didn't get to see a lot of SeaWorld. There is just so much there. The day was actually quite hot and we all got a little sunburned. Funny story- we had left a gift shop and were trying to figure out where to go when Cassidy runs back into the shop and runs out with some pj's!!! "Buy these for me!" she says. We don't normally do that but in this case they were cute pj's so we bought them. They have Shamu on them but she kept calling them her Shampoo pj's.
