No snow

No snow here in Virginia, but that doesn't mean we're not having fun.

Cruise 2010 Slide Show

I finally spent some quality time with animoto.com last night and came up with a highlights presentation from our cruise. You might want to go "full screen" and then close the banner ad that will no doubt pop up from the bottom. Sorry... that's the price I have to pay to use the copyrighted soundtrack.

Heading Home

Today didn't work out exactly as we'd liked. We started out at the Sea Lion Show, which was funny enough (especially since the sea lions were not cooperating). After the show we fed them, and then the birds.


Jane would be so proud. Charles charged in and made sure that every bird got a little of the food. Thomas on the hand was afraid of the noise. Go figure.

And then the rain came. We spent the next several hours freezing in the pool as the boys splashed and played. One more trip through the penguin house (because we just weren't quite cold enough) and it was back to the car for the long ride home. Thomas didn't make it far beyond the parking lot, but we've just passed Seguin and Charles is still going strong.

Wow! What a day!

The first day is over and what a great day it was.



We pretty much hit every attraction at Sea World except for the Sea Lions Show and the water park - we're tackling those tomorrow before we head home.



We ended the day by having dinner with Shamu. The boys were really tired and goofy, but no meltdowns. Thomas almost didn't make it back to the hotel awake, but we're back safe and sound and it took them about 5 minutes to fall asleep.

More pictures on Flickr and a few videos on Pickle.

Off to see Shamu

Well, we're off. This should be a fun weekend of "firsts" - first hotel stay, first whale, first indoor pool, first water park. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. :)


As you might guess, it should be pretty week documented. There's a new Pickle channel where I'll post the photos and videos as we go, and a new Flickr set in case you care but don't want to download the Flash.