We decided to hit up a few shows before we stopped for lunch, which ended up being a good idea since the shows only happen so often! We grabbed a couple of bags of popcorn to share and went to Cirque De La Mar (I spelled that wrong). I love this show. Karianna has extremely fond memories of this show, and the other kids were blown away by the set. The two clown guys do a great pre-show that really gets the crowd revved up-we had fun cheering on our audience representative, who eventually won his place in on that trampoline right there!
Jackson LOVED the show-all the shows really. He was riveted the entire time. I did not expect it to be that easy with him!
We broke out the fans at this point-everyone had one, and they made sitting in the stadium a billion times easier. I had brought a little spray bottle, and that helped as well.
One of my favorite parts about this show was seeing the joy on JD's face. he is at that stage where he is kind of apathetic about stuff. But he was laughing his head off at the clowns and I LOVED seeing his eyes light up-its like he reverted back to being a little kid who thrilled at the littlest things! Oh, I love my kids!
Crazy, crazy ribbon work!
Our personal favorite-this couple did things on the swing that I had no idea were possible-the sheer strength and flexibility was just astounding
After Cirque was over, we jumped over to Shamu Stadium for the killer whale show. Once again, the fans were super helpful, and we purposefully sat in the soak zone to cool off a bit. I don't think the kids truly understood what the soak zone entailed....
LOVE this show! I love these big huge animals and the things they can do with the trainers!
See the baby orca under the mom? So cute!
This picture makes it look like the whale is just laying on the water!
So, at some point-we got soaked. Literally. We sat in the perfect spot-it was as if the whale was aiming for us! James did not like it-he hid under the bench at some point and refused to come out-which was fine with me, it was kind of cute!
Jackson was shocked by the water-you can't tell very well, but he was soaked.
JD and Jordan escaped the worst of it honestly-they jumped up 2 rows behind us, and the rest of us took the brunt of the water!
We decided that would be a good time to finally break for lunch-cool off, dry off, and just rest our feet for a few minutes. We went to the Shipwrecked Cafe, which is where we have eaten before. The line looked ridiculously long, but only took us about 20 minutes to get through, and we found a great table, out of the way, and somewhat quiet. Jackson fell asleep in his stroller as we were paying for our food, and slept a measly 8-10 minutes until we got to our table. For the record-that is literally the only nap he took all day until about 9:30 pm when he fell asleep in the car on the way home. Crazy, especially considering how well-behaved he was all day!
We ate chicken strips, watermelon, salad, pudding parfaits, and fries. Jared got ribs and a turkey leg, and said it was pretty good!
waking up to eat grapes from JD's lunchbox-we packed his lunch separately so we could ensure it was gluten free. The park was great about that.
We didn't rest long honestly-well, Jared and the little boys did while I took off with the other kids to ride the rapids. After we left, apparently James needed to go to the bathroom and got away from Jared. Jared eventually tracked him down to the bathrooms, but James went into the ladies bathroom, and it took Jared a long time to figure out how to get him out! Kind of a funny situation, although it scared jared!
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