Sea World Anniversary Celebration

To celebrate 9 years since our family started, we decided to take a trip!  We surprised our kids with a little Sea World adventure.  We even left Oliver sit forward facing.  This was my view looking back at them.  What a fun group of kids I have.

 We did Sea World for 2 days.  The first of which was actually Oliver's birthday.  He LOVED it!  When we got there, this gentleman with a lizard came up to us and showed the kids his "pet".  He told us all about the animal and let the kids pet him.  It was really neat.

 The park was all decorated for the holidays.  They had an area where they made their own snow.  There was ice skating and snow ball fighting in this area (which we actually never visited).  They also had Christmas trees everywhere.  They were beautiful.

 You can't go to Sea World and not see the animals.  We LOVED watching the aquatic animals. 

 

 The sting rays were HUGE!  I think they were use to people feeding them because they would come right up to you.  Personally, I like looking at them more than touching them. Especially when they are so big.  The girls did pet them though.  Oliver preferred to watch.  He is his mom's son!

 See how big that sting ray is that they are standing next to...  That's how big some of them where in the pool.  Crazy, right?

 

The trip was a total success!  We all enjoyed so many things, it's hard to name them.  But, I think Melanie's favorite thing was the dolphins.  Noelle liked the whales.  Oliver seemed to like the fish.  Brandon and I loved the smiles!

Happy Anniversary to us!  (Our actual anniversary was on Thanksgiving this year, which was spent at the house.  It was nice to do something to celebrate though.)