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Dolphin Show



Shamu making a big splash



Shamu



Waiting for Shamu.

Shamu.

California Pics.

California

We just returned from our trip to California on Tuesday. Yes, tuesday! We planned to be home late on monday but thanks to a snow storm we arrived home just before 5 a.m.! Other than the drive home in the snow we had a great time.

We spent 4 days in Anaheim and 4 days in San Diego. While in Anaheim we went to Disneyland 2 days and California Adventures 1 Day. The kids had an absolute blast and had fun finding all the characters and princesses for autographs. While we were eating lunch the first day Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter showed up and my girls got to play a game of musical chairs with them. It was really funny and what an awesome memory for them to have. How many people can say they have played musical chairs with Alice? It turns out Maddie is a little dare devil. She loves all the wild rides. We took the girls on the tower of terror and she is the only that liked it. Okay, she loved it and wanted to do it again. The other two got all upset if we even mentioned it, hehehe. It rained on us the last day at Disneyland. I am glad I took the advice from a friend and took some rain panchos so atleast we stayed dry. We had so much fun but were exhausted by the end of each day and the girls slept really, really well.

On thursday we drove down the California coast to San Diego. We spent one day at the San Diego zoo. It was absolutely beautiful there, it is like a botanical garden and a zoo. I was super impressed. We didnt get to see everything because the place is huge. We rode the bus that takes you around the zoo which gave us a good idea as to where everything was then we set out on foot to see as much as we could. We spent Saturday at the beach. The girls were excited to go swim but the water was FREEZING! They got their feet wet anyway and played in the water a little bit (I thought they were crazy!) We found tons of shells on the beach and brought home about 20 sand dollars. They were everywhere! We had a ton of fun even though it wasnt quite warm enough for the beach. Sunday we went to SeaWorld. The Shamu show was amazing and was our favorite. She is huge. We sat close enough to get wet but not soaked. We were about 8 rows back from the front. The girls enjoyed all the anmial shows.

The weather was great. It was in the upper 60's for most of our vacation so it was very disappointing to come home to the snow. We are soooo ready for spring!