Marine World

On Friday the kids and I took a field trip (is it still called that when you're homeschooling?) down to Marine World... excuse me, to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.

These elephants were huge in real life. Jacob thought it was funny that the one was giving the other a piggy back ride. We'll just leave that one alone...

The kids loved seeing the dolphins in their tank. They were swimming in circles and being very playful.

This one was funny- Ashlee was leaning with her back against the glass casually eating her chips when a dolphin swam up behind her. She about jumped out of her pants.

They acknowledged the boys face-to-face.

It took Kaitlyn a while to figure out what the heck we were looking at behind the glass, but she too was fascinated once she discovered them.

Beautiful flowers... and children.

The killer whale show has always been my favorite. Shouka was being a little bit defiant and didn't want to do all of her tricks, but she was fun to see nonetheless. Ashlee and Jacob sat in the very front while I sat in back with Noah and Kaitlyn, so we watched them get soaked when the whale came by and splashed them with her fin.



Majestic.

The kids were dying to go on some rides after we saw the animals. This is where I lost my cell phone (Kaitlyn threw it out of her stroller.) Thankfully some nice lady found it and brought it to the lost and found, where I was able to retrieve it before going home.

Our last stop was this huge water play structure for the kids. They had a blast, and were grateful for the cooling-off. (Poor Noah had to sit out because we didn't bring his cast cover.)