SeaWorld, San Antonio

We went to SeaWorld on Friday and had lots of fun. Tristan was really brave and went on a huge roller coaster with Daniel (it's so big that the first time I went on it - a few summers ago - I felt like crying a teeny tiny bit as it went up the first big hill). Anyway, he was very brave and went on it, and then went on it again with me (I had to pretend I wasn't nervous to go on it again). He did get scared on the first drop (he requested right before we got to it that I put my arm around him) but he was yelling with glee (mixed only with a small amount of terror) the rest of the ride. As soon as we finished, he said 'That was AWESOME!' He thinks a lot of things are 'awesome' and 'sweet' these days (it must be a 1st grade thing).

Oliver is also a brave roller coaster kid. There is a new ride at Seaworld that has one big drop at the end where you go straight down and then splash through some water. Not a kiddy ride - I was nervous on this one, too. Daniel took the boys on it first, and then they wanted to do it again with me. Tristan was a little nervous before the drop (he hadn't done the huge one with Daniel yet, so he didn't realize how brave he was going to turn out to be by the end of the day), but I looked over at Oliver right as we started going down, and he was lifting his arms way up in the air and whooping loudly like a roller coaster pro.

Rachel went on a little Shamu roller coaster and kind of nervously said, 'woo-hoo' the whole time over and over again in a timid little voice while clutching me tightly. The sad thing is that it wasn't scary at all and I think she would have really liked it, except our whole family had just been on a log ride (including Lizzy) that had a few big drops, so Rachel kept thinking that the Shamu one was going to drop suddenly, even though it didn't.

Lizzy only went on the log ride and hated it. She was okay when we were just floating along, and she liked pointing to Daniel, Rachel, and Ollie who were in the log boat ahead of us, but she really didn't like the drops.

So I guess that was just a roller coaster summary, there. We also saw lots of animals. Lizzy called all of the dolphins and whales and sealions 'doggy'.

It wasn't hot at all, and it wasn't crowded, either, which was nice. It did rain on us a few times, and a show got delayed once because of lightning, but it ended up being a great day. Whenever I see the dolphin show or pet a dolphin I get a little bit sad that I am probably never going to work at SeaWorld. That doesn't mean Rachel can't, though - as we were leaving I started prepping her for her future career. She'll thank me someday, I'm sure.