Spring Break 2016 Part 1

We had big plans for Spring Break this year.  We planned two trips on the weekends of spring break.  The first weekend we went to Sea World and the second weekend we traveled to Oklahoma.

We had planned this sea world trip with the Parles back in January, so our kids had been looking forward to this trip for a while.  We both got the annual pass to Sea World and Aquatica so we felt it would be great to vacation together.  We left early Saturday morning (March 12) and arrived at Sea World a little after 10:00. 

The Parles were already inside but they waited for us at the fountain.  We spent the entire day at Sea World and saw the lumberjack show, Azul, and ate at the Smokehouse.

We left around 4:00 to check into the hotel and eat dinner together before heading back inside for the Shamu Celebration show at 8:00.

Eating dinner at Chuy's

 The kids had "sleepovers" with each other so Joe came and slept in our hotel room and R/E stayed with Faith. 

We exchanged kids Sunday morning and met at McDonald's for breakfast before heading back into Sea World.  Our first show was Sea Lion High followed by time at the Sesame Street Bay of Play before eating lunch.  We watched an Alligator Interaction but were a bit disappointed because we thought it was going to be a feeding.  B and I left around 4:00 with the kids and didn't make it to AWANA but we had a great time while we were there.  Since it was spring break, the kids didn't have school so we were able to take it easy and get to bed later than normal, but poor B had to get up and go to work at 7:00 am.

We always park by Dolly #13

Miles on Storm

We drove A LOT in the month of March.  We drove to San Antonio for Sea World the first weekend of Spring Break, then to Oklahoma the second weekend of spring break.  The very next weekend was Easter, so we drove to Hammond, LA followed by a second trip to LA to get W/E back from my mom and Chuck.  4 straight weekends in a row putting miles on Storm.  She's a good van and she needs a deep cleaning.  Here are the stats:

Sea World 204 miles there and 204 miles back
Edmond, OK 483 there and 484 back
Hammond, LA 344 miles and 344 back
Lafayette, LA 255 miles there and 255 back

4 straight weekends on the road and 2,573 miles later....We are tired but I can't imagine how Storm's insides are feeling.  Here's what happened to me this past week (April 6th) on a Wednesday:

 We got a new tire and we hope that she won't rebel for her treatment anymore.