Shamu Froze

Just kidding, but he could have! If that water wasn't heated he'd freeze. Or those that swim with him would. My gosh could you imagine having your wet suit freeze on Shamu's nose!? Ok I'll stop right there with my 'thoughts'. (keepin it PG)

Yes it's down right frigid here. For Flordia standards it is and for my standards from Iowa, it's cold. BUT we braved the conditions and headed to Sea World today (Saturday). The park was DEAD! I mean as in NO wait for anything but hot chocolate! We manage to ride one ride? that was indoors. Megs and Mr C'man rode this crab jumper and DH and Miss A did this tea cup ride but Shamu 'style'.

Watching the Shamu show was AWESOME! C'man LOVE LOVE LOVED it! He had to have a Shamu and now his stuffed Shamu is doing all the tricks Shamu did! Miss A liked the penguins and she is sporting a 'little' penguin and another one for her cousin.

It worked out pretty good with the weather the way it was. There was a lot of indoor things we could do. We could walk thru the aquariams which was a huge hit with us all. Without further ado, lets get some pictures posted!

We started off the day dressed like so for the kids:

Blankets, double/triple layers on top and mittens. It was raining so i had brought poncho's with me.

the first show we watched Miss A was quite impressed with the pirates and seals that were 'acting' too.

Us still ok as far as warmth. Ok maybe we were already cold. I had on ankle socks. WTH was I thinking. BUT i had on TWO sweatshirts

Having fun in the aquariams.

C'man just LOVED it in here. He was so busy asking the attendant there all sorts of questions. It was so cute. But then an alarm went off and we had to leave NOW! (I was worried Miss A pulled a fire alarm or something. Meg informed me she didn't) I think the employees just wanted to go home where it was maybe warmer!?

On to the penguins. We had so much fun watching them! C'man laughed and laughed at them.

Pics of Shamu are on the other camera so skipping ahead. After Sea World Meg and I dropped off the kids and DH to warm up and we went on a mission for hat and sweatpants. Who knew I could do all our suvinior shopping at the local walmart:) (hate that store) But anyway.....this is how the evening ended:

Note stocking caps and fleece pants oh and a hooded coat for C'man. I think the kids have on at least 3 layers!

Supper was @ Downtown Disney @ Wolfgang Puck. It was good. Here's our food. Yes I made everyone pass the camera around and take a pic of the food and dessert:) I said last time I didn't get enough pictures. I'm making sure that doesn't happen.

My Salmon with asparagus. DH had a salmon pizza (it was ok, it was cold Salmon so I wasn't to crazy about that. Meg had steak, I think c'man ate 1/2 of it)

And with our meal plan (again, the only way to go) we get dessert. Here's are variety:

Ok my key lime dessert is not in there. Note the little hand in the picture. Miss A could not WAIT for her chocolate dessert.

While waiting for our meal Meg spoiled them with sucker. They also entertained them while we waited. Note Shamu in C'mans arms. As I type this, Shamu is putting on a show in the hotel room.

This is enough for tonight. Tomorrow we're hoping it's above 45 so the rides are going. We plan on going back to Sea World to hit a couple more things but I think tomorrow we're hitting Epcot. We have to ride Test Track as I guess it's closing for a month. That's C'mans FAVORITE ride.

Oh and while we were watching the Shamu show this is what my SIL was texting us:

This would be the machine shed back at the farm. Yup the roof collapsed from all the snow. BTW store roofs are doing the same as well as a roof in a school! Not to much damage to any equipment WHICH is good b/c I guess insurance does not cover roof collapses b/c of snow!

As SIL said no one was hurt, yet!

I'm also going to leave you with pictures of our trip down here.

We waited some 20 min to get thru one lane traffic b/c of this HUGE machine trying to clear out 8ft high drifts across the road. (yes i was stressed out about making it to the airport on time)

No this was not us. You think they had clean underwear after this??

ok I have to end this. Need to find stuffed animals so kids can SLEEP!!