Weekend O' Fun

We ventured to San Antonio last weekend for a fun-filled weekend with Daddy G & Kekal (AKA: Greg & Crystal).

We spent our weekend shopping at La Cantera and the Quarry, eating delicious food, and exploring San Antonio, but the highlight of the weekend was our trip to Sea World.  Garrett and I were not quite sure how Madelyn would handle an entire day at an amusement park, but she LOVED IT!!! 

We started out the day by watching a great show!  It was filled with tons of fun:  music, dolphins, beluga whales, crazy divers, and more, but Madelyn's favorite part was the BIRDS!  The girl loves birds!  Periodically throughout the show they would release birds into the arena.  They would fly around in a circle above the crowd a couple of times and then return to their cage.  Madelyn was amazed (and so were her parents!)  I have no idea how they trained those birds, but it was amazing!

After the show, we walked around and explored the rest of Sea World.  We saw penguins, puffins, birds, fish, etc., but Madelyn's favorite was the sea lion exhibit.  She really enjoyed listening to them make their loud noises and, at times, she even confused their "barking" for a dog's bark.  She kept saying "daaa"...which in her language, means Dog!  I understand her confusion though...they do "bark" AND they kind of look like her dog, Trooper, too....why wouldn't she think they were dogs?!?!  We bought some fish to feed to the sea lions and Madelyn thought it was hilarious when her Daddy would throw the fish into the water and the sea lions would chase after it.  Mommy, however was a nervous wreck because I was terrified that she was going to fall over the big wall and go swimming with the sea lions! 

We also had a great time feeding nectar to the beautiful birds!  Madelyn really wanted to "hold them", but I had to refrain her from giving them kisses and trying to pull all of their feathers out!

After a long day of walking around in the Texas heat, we headed to Lost Lagoon to end our day.  We all needed to cool off a bit...it was sooooo HOT!  Madelyn had so much fun playing with all of the other kids at the water park.  She found a few slides that she went down no less than 50 times each and even found a cute little sea-turtle to play with, too!

As we were on our way out of the park, Madelyn fell asleep in her stroller and conked out for the remainder of the evening!  Needless to say, she had a super-duper fun time!  Thank you to Daddy G & Kekal for a GREAT weekend!