Theme Park Extravaganza!

As is tradition (and everyone who is anyone knows I am BIG on tradition!) we spend the 4th of July at the beach with our fabulous family. This year was no different. The kids and I were really only home from Carlsbad long enough to unpack, repack and spend a day at the lake with friends. 48 hours max before we all piled back in the workhorse of a SUV we lovingly refer to as the Dingo and headed back to the gorgeous weather of the North County. This time with a daddy in tow, thank goodness. We had a busy week planned. Last week while we were there with the Pezzelle and Engisch families Amy and I took the kids to SeaWorld, at her request, and we had a pretty good time, but the summer Fun Card special we had to purchase meant we can go back anytime, as many times, we like for the rest of the year. So, of course, the kids wanted to take Daddy-O to see Shamu. Emily was so excited to sit in the Splash Zone after seeing what it entails last week. Can't say I was as excited, but I do love her so we got there early, sat and prepared to get wet. As you can see from the photo she was not happy with me because while I do love her, I refused to sit in the front row. Splash Zone rules say rows 16 and down get wet. I choose row 14. She was only bummed until the show began and she got wet. It's cold water!

Abigail, 1 year and 350 days. Remember, she's C.R.A.Z.Y. for animals. No different with really large fish (she doesn't understand the whole mammal thing yet).

Billy, 3 years. Can you see the thought process happening? "That is one big fish." "And it can do tricks, wow!" It was cute. I still think he has no idea what he was looking at.

For our next theme park we loaded up and went off to Legoland. It's right around the bend from the Beatsch House and Grandma & Grandpa were nice enough to get us tickets for Christmas this last year. SeaWorld is neat and educational, but Legoland is all fun and that's all the kids really cared about anyway. They love Legoland. It's the perfect theme park for their age group and even little, too short for everything, Billy can go on roller coasters.

He was so happy! He loves roller coasters as much as his big sister does. The Dinosaur one was the "scariest" one he made the height requirement on so, let's see....I think they rode it 15 times. The lines weren't bad and Squishy was sleeping. It worked out great for me! Daddy had roller coaster duty and his story may be a little different, but fun was had by all!