Sea World, part 1

For Spring break we flew to San Diego for the entire week of fun!  I worked the weekend, so we left at noon Monday.  Kaiden sat on my lap for the flight.  He napped on the flight from Spokane to Denver while Connor watched the Robots movie on the ipad.  We had a short lay over in Denver.  Grabbed some lunch at the airport.  Then we were off to San Diego.  Connor watched the Shrek movie on the ipad while I entertained Kaiden... who mainly wanted to rearrange the flight magazines/pamphlets.  Jason and I also got a chance to watch a little bit of the Hall Pass movie on the other ipad while the boys played.  On the way off the plane Connor told the pilot "I like your plane. Thanks for getting us to San Diego safely."  The pilot had a big smile and laughed.  We packed 3 backpacks (1 with gadgets/ipads, 1 as a diaper bag with snacks, 1 with toys/stuffed animals), a bag,  medium suite case and a large suite case with clothes/shoes, Kaiden's car seat, Connor's booster seat and the stroller.  We carried the 3 backpacks and bag on board.  They checked the car seats, stroller and medium bag for free.  We only had to pay to check the large suite case.  Once we got to San Diego we picked up our rental car, stopped at Walmart and a grocery store to buy a cooler and some food... then we checked into our hotel and were in bed by midnight. Our hotel room wasn't real big, but Jason and I had a king size bed, the couch folded out into a full size bed for Connor and between the two we set up the hotel play pen for Kaiden's bed.  We put one of the super thick couch cushions in the bottom of the play pen, so Kaiden had a nice soft bed too.  We were on the 3rd floor, room 404.  Our window looked out on the outdoor pool.

We slept in, grabbed some breakfast in the hotel lobby and then we were off...

Day 2 of vacation: Sea World 10:00-4:30

The weather was wonderful. We started with jackets in the early morning, but it warmed up.  Every day was between 68-72 with beautiful clear sky's (except 1 day of rain and 1 roasting hot day).  We loved Sea World!  Kaiden took about a 45-60 minute nap in the stroller.  We found a nice shady spot in a garden area and while he napped we enjoyed an ice cream treat and sat down for 15 minutes to rest too before venturing on.  We did a lot of walking!  Kaiden rode in the stroller half the time and ran around half the time.  He skinned up both knees falling.  We had to put bandaids on both knees to protect them from any further damage.  We kept telling him to WALK, but it's hard when your super excited and feel like you need to run full speed.  He finally started listening though and when we would tell him to walk he would instantly stop running, put his hands behind his back and walk.  I was hoping to get a picture of him with his hands behind his back since it looked so cute, but I don't think I ever caught one.  Connor's favorite part of Sea World was touching the creatures in the Explorer's Reef, the shark tunnel and the Sea Lion/otter show.  Kaiden loved the fish.  We couldn't get him to touch anything in the Explorer Reef though.  At the end of the day Connor got to pick anything he wanted from the gift shop.  He chose a stuffed sea turtle.  I walked around the store with Kaiden trying to find a toy/animal for him too, but he wasn't interested in anything but his bunny.  Connor's favorite creature to touch- a Horseshoe Crab.  He also touched fish, sting rays, bamboo sharks, epaulette sharks and a conch.