Sea World

Late, after Disneyland closed we started the drive

to San Diego. We were all exhausted from the fun day

and it was late. We were following behind my Mom,

her husband and my sister. We were not familiar with

the drive and our gas tank was creeping up on empty.

As a good wife always says to her stubborn husband,

pull over at the next gas station before we run out of gas.

And then the stubborn husband replies, "there will be other

gas stations a head, plus you have a few gallons even

when it says zero miles to empty."

Of course the good wife was right, as usual!

There were no gas stations in sight. Or anything for that matter.

We were driving along the coast with not a thing in sight.

My mom was a good 30 minutes a head of us. I'm

not sure how she would turn around. There were no exits.

Well the Lord heard the desperate plea of the good wife

and the humbled plea of the stubborn husband and

low and behold up in the distance there was

a gas station. We pulled off and Ironically enough the gas

station was called, EXTRA MILE.

Now come on was the Lord trying to be funny.

Okay we laughed and the good wife still

was able to kiss her husband! And the

stubborn husband we all hope learned his lesson.

The next morning we headed off to

SEA WORLD.

Brandon and the kids in a fake bear cave.

Riley is so cute and made a bear face.

Sierra liked it better out of the cave

since there were bear growling sounds

coming from the cave that made it a little

more realistic. She like the sizes of the bears

paws compared to her tiny hands.

I don't know why we were all so excited

to see the sharks when we are all

terrified of them.

The shows are not what they use to be when

Brandon and I were kids but my kids did not

know any different and liked it.

We got a chance to feed the sea lions and seals.

Owen was not scared at all when the Sea lion

came right up to him and started making loud

sounds. Owen loved it.

Sea world has this Elmo's play area for kids now.

The girls had so much fun climbing up ropes

into the play houses and bouncing.

That night we headed to Mission Beach.

It was extra special for me and Brandon

since that is were we went for our Honeymoon.

We did not get in the water but the kids, specially

Sierra and Paige loved playing in the sand

and Riley loved collecting the sea shells.

My mom helped Sierra make her castle.

The next day at Sea world upon the kids request

we went back to the Arctic exhibits.

Brandon and Sierra touching the Ice wall.

After emptying our wallet we got to feed and touch

the dolphins. Brandon doesn't think I should have

said anything in front of the girls but it bugged me

that I paid a ton of money for the oldest and blind

dolphin that could not even find the fish and did not

make the cute sound that dolphins make. The girls

loved touching them but I think it would have been fun

if the dolphin moved a little and played with us like all

the others around us. I guess I just wanted the one time

experience for my kids to be the best. They still loved it

and were surprised at how it felt. Sierra would not feed

the dolphin and Brandon had to hold her hand to pet it.

But she loved it anyway.