Sea World

Last Friday, Nana and I got up early and took the boys to San Antonio for the weekend. It was a great trip! I made up travel packs for the car ride and filled it with coloring books and writing stuff, candy, games, stickers and anything else that I thought might occupy them for the five hour trip. They did great in the car and really loved all the goodies! Shockingly there was very little fighting. We had to make a stop at Czech Stop – both going down and coming home. (Nolan’s favorite) We packed in a lot for a few days there - we did the River Walk with the night boat tour, went to the Alamo and spent two days at Sea World and Aquatica. We stayed at the Crockett Hotel which is an old historic hotel right in downtown across from the Alamo. We stayed there as kids and it was just as fun this time as it was back then. We were able to walk to everything down there and it’s just a cool hotel. It was our first time to go to Sea World and I felt like the boys were the perfect age for it. It wasn’t busy at all on Friday so the boys were able to get right up front with the dolphin feeding and stingray feeding areas which was so cool! We watched a few shows and then headed to the water park because it was SOOOOOOO hot! Saturday we did the rest of the Sea World side with more shows and the rides. Nolan is still super scared to ride the big slides and the rollercoasters and Hudson was of course all about them! We did the family ones all together and Hudson and I did the few “scary” ones that he was tall enough for. Poor guy was so upset that he couldn’t ride the steel eel – maybe next year! I told them they could each pick out a prize and Hudson picked a stuffed sting ray and Nolan picked a leather bracelet and had “Nirvana” etched on it – so completely opposite as always! We ate junk food, sang songs, played plenty of road trip games. We all had a really good time and I am so glad we were able to squeeze it in before school starts back in two weeks!