Sea World, and more!

I haven't posted anything in a few days, and the reason is exhaustion. My excuse for one day's exhaustion is valid - my field trip to Sea World with a class of Kindergarteners. My excuse for the other day isn't - I stay up too late some nights and then am too tired for anything the next day after work.

Yesterday, all of the Kindergarten classes at my school took a day long field trip to Sea World. This was my second time having the privilege of experiencing this. Last year wasn't as enjoyable as it could have been, so I was a bit apprehensive that I would be stressed out this time. However, everything went as planned and there were no major mishaps. I had a few children who liked to just take off, but when I noticed the chaperone in charge of them couldn't get them to stay put, they just ended the day glued to my side. It also rained throughout the day and the bus ride back to school smelled like wet dog. But we came back with the same amount of children that we left with, the kids had a blast, and I didn't have a migraine at the end of the day, so I count it a success!

The first show we went to as soon as we got there, Blue Horizons. We ate an early lunch at the show (we are used to these, seeing as how our lunch time is 10:35 in the morning on a normal school day).

Believe, featuring a few Killer Whales and a lot of talking and animal pictures on the screen. I got a little bored - it wasn't quite as exciting as I remember.

Seymore and Clyde, or The Pirate Show, as my kids called it. This was always my favorite show as a kid.

The Dolphin nursery. The dolphins were putting on a show for us. One even kept peeping his head up right in front of us, but I kept missing that photo op.

The flamingos.

We also went to the show A'Lure - The Call of the Ocean. It was my favorite of the day. It is in an inside theater, and there are no real animals, but in a way it kind of reminded me of a Cirque de Soleil show. Kind of! Of course, we also saw the sharks, penguins, polar bears, stingrays, etc. One of my chaperones bought the fish to feed to the stingrays, which the kids absolutely loved. That was a great way to end the day. We didn't get back to school until about 6:15. I slept about 10 or 11 hours last night.

Then tonight we headed over to Sarah and Justin's for dinner. They made a delicious dinner of soft tacos/burritos (technically these are the same, depending on how you fold your tortilla, no?), chips and salsa, with cookies for dessert. I tried to eat in moderation, but it sure was hard.

Delicious food!

And of course some pictures of Ezra. He weighs close to 12 pounds now. I love that little guy!