Riding the Shamu Roller Coaster is a must at any time of the year. Jason is now tall enough to ride all by himself, and he did it 3 times. But I wanted to ride too and he was a little annoyed that he had to ride with his mom! On a related note, If you're a roller coaster nut, you should give the Steel Eel roller coaster at Sea World a shot. Every time I ride it, I'm impressed with what a good "there-and-back" coaster it is. Plus, it has a great first drop!
Since we get to go to Sea World often, we like to hang out at the Lost Lagoon in the summer since it gets so hot. I also enjoy being the only girl, since my boys are getting a little to old see women change they have to go to the men's changing area with their dad... oh, shucks- and I really wanted to help!
Ian was very excited about the "waves" he loves the wave pool.
Jason liked playing with the water and waterfall in the activity pool, while Ian and I went down the slide! The boys were checking out the map, they were cute so I tried to snap a picture, but Ian struck a pose first! Striking poses?...not my kid...
Matt and I were able to sit back and enjoy the boys livin' it up at Splash Attack. I had a hard time at first because I wanted to shadow their every movement, but they were together and safe. We had our eyes on them and after I relaxed in the shade I had fun too! Just so you think I'm not a crazy over-protective parent, I was almost kidnapped from a community pool when I was about 5. I was going to go off the diving board and a strange man grabbed my arm and just walked off pulling me along. My mom's good friend, who was waiting for me to jump in the water, saw what he was doing and ran out of the pool. She picked me up right out of the man's arms (I think she might have said something to him too, but I don't remember) then she ran off with me. I didn't realize what was happening, I thought I was in trouble or something, and I felt really bad about it. Now I'm just freaked out by the whole thing. Okay that was a random off topic story... where was I??? Oh right, my boys are getting so big!
If you want more random stories about our day... please keep reading!
Story 1:
After Sea World we went to IHOP for dinner and Jason and I were doing a cross word puzzle. Here is an example of the questions "the strongest animal in the ocean" - mussel, or "This fish goes well with peanut butter" - Jelly Fish. Anyway, one question was "A cranky fish" and I said "a crab" then Jason puts his hand in a fist and moves it in front of his body and says "oh, like CRAP". I laughed so hard! Surely I'm not the reason my son is more familiar with the word crap, than the word crab.
Story 2:
So, we're somewhere between San Antonio and Houston, and Jason needs to use the little boys' room. Matt notices a truck stop up ahead, so he pulls over. I decide that the place looks too scary for girls (there were too police cars out front!) so Matt needs to take Jason in to use the bathroom. Ian was asleep in the car so we stayed in the running car while the others went in. They were in the (gross) bathroom for a max of 3 minutes and then we headed back to the freeway for the remainder of our trip. A few miles later we see flashing red and blue lights behind us,. Matt was surprised because he wasn't speeding (that stretch of road is notorious for speed traps), and I thought we probably had a tail light out. The State Trooper pulled us over and he comes up to Matt's window and said that he had been following us since the truck stop because the people said we "didn't pay our bill" We were both so shocked, surprised and confused! Matt told the trooper (heehee, did that make you think of a storm trooper?) that we just stopped to use the bathroom and we didn't even get anything. He asked us a few follow up questions like where we were headed and where we came from, and then asked if we were "sure we didn't do anything" (wow, did you learn that question in trooper school). I guess our answers were good enough for him, and he let us go without a backward glance. Who knows maybe this will show up on our record some day. The whole thing was so strange and our questions will never get answered (like why did they think it was us?) but we had a good laugh about it, and it's something we're not likely to forget. I should have asked the Trooper if I could take his picture, because I really would have loved to put it on the blog!
5 comments:
Sounds like you had a really great day! There's nothing like a storm trooper at the end to make it memorable.
That Seaworld looks even more awesome than the one in San Diego, what great fun. I'm not suprised the cop tailed you...that Matt is a shadey looking character!
Your 5-year old pool story is pretty creepy. Looks like you guys had a really fun trip. Good job not getting arrested on the way home.
We still have never been to Sea World - it looks like so much fun! And nothing like a few fun stories to wrap up a great day.
Forgot about the "scary" pool story, I'd better thank Jan Harbour next time I see her. Seems like you all had a great time, and by the way, the trouper story is just creepy.
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