We began our adventure Saturday afternoon and headed to one of the kids' favorite towns...San Antonio. Six Flags had a wonderful Christmas set up with amazing lights, trees, wonderful characters around the park to take pictures with, cookie decorating stations, a wonderful winter wonderland to visit with Santa and even a snowy hillside to do some holiday sledding!!! This was obviously unlike any other visit to Six Flags...Fiesta Texas at night was so fun. :) We had an amazing time!!
Our hotel was on the river and had an awesome view of the Alamo...which we all absolutely loved!!! The kids loved that the river actually runs right through our hotel!!!! :)
View from our window
Alamo lights at night
River walk lights at Christmas are the BEST!!!!
View from our window, take 2
Carriage ride around town
Sea World
Like Six Flags, Sea World was totally setup like a winter wonderland. With all new exhibits and fun new shows as well, the Caswell kids had a great time. We started our afternoon with the Sesame Street Christmas show. Little Miss A and Mr. D both loved it...especially the "snow" at the end. :)
I think the flamingos are still one of the kids favorite stops...they didn't want to leave. :)
This was the picture of the kids before Mr. D got "lost".
As Mr. D and Little Miss A were playing in the nets, Daddy told the little man we were heading to the show and that he needed to come down. When Daddy lost sight of Mr. D, he went up into the giant nets after him. As Daddy was up in the nets, Mr. D came down and couldn't find Daddy and started to panic. As he was crying, Daddy saw D at the bottom and was trying to make his way back down, not an easy feat when there are other parents in the net tunnels going in opposite directions. Meanwhile some very sweet people found our little man and asked if he knew his phone number. I knew he knew it, but had no clue he knew what his area code was too!!!! (We is constantly amazing me.) Anyway, we got home to hear his message since it was obviously our home phone number...now it's time to learn my cell number. It was the biggest relief when Daddy was reunited with Mr. D...SCARY!!!!
The 4-D Polar Express show...
The show was worth the entire trip!!! A very condensed version of the DVD my kids have already seen half a dozen times already this holiday season. My expert viewers were alerting me to every "skip" of the movie. :) They loved the vibrating seats when the train rumbled, the air blasts with the whistle and were wondering why the boy was "off the screen." I think their absolute favorite of all was the snow at the end. Mr. D replies as we were leaving "It's okay, it was just bubbles Mommy."
After the Polar Express, it was off to see Shamu. The new show was phenomenal. Christmas carols, snowflakes every where and tons of Christmas lights. :) Shamu was actually doing FLIPS...that was a first. The kids thought that was super cool!
The ride home was quiet...the kids fell asleep almost as soon as we left the park. What an amazing birthday trip!!! (Better late than never, right?)
2 comments:
We went to Sea World today and I was so afraid I was going to lose a boy to the nets. They know my cell number (but, like yours, not the area code) so I wrote it on both their arms in Sharpy. :)
what a super fun b-day celebration! you guys really packed in the fun! :) can't wait until we can all go together! :) holy crow . . . are they really 5?
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