Sea World Vacation

Whales and dolphins and sea lions.... Oh My! We had a great vacation at Sea World San Antonio. We spent 2 full days at Sea World. The first day we stayed from 10 - 5 and the second day we spent from 10 - 9. I really recommend the 2 day pass. With show schedules it's hard to do it all on one day. Mia napped in her stroller for a few hours each day and was ready to go the rest of the day. This was our first family vacation as a family of 6. It was a lot of fun and the only growing pain we felt was buying lunch and dinner in the park. They don't allow any food or drinks to be brought in the park. We just tried to think "we're on vacation, things cost more."
We really recommend Sea World. It gets an A+ in our book even with the food prices. They have a waterpark built into the park so there was something for everyone and when you get hot you can go cool off in the lazy river or try a tube shoot. At one point, I went to ride a body slide with Zane and he and I could see the lazy river from our line up high. We looked down and saw David riding a tube with Mia, Trent and Kaylee all in with him. He was quite easy to spot with all the orange lifejackets they were wearing.
One of our favorite events was feeding the dolphins. We purchased trays of little fish and they showed us how to hold the fish out and the dolphin would come up and you can pet them first then release the fish into his mouth. It was really neat for the kids (and me) to get to touch the dolphins.
We couldn't get that close to the San Marcos outlet mall without stopping in for a visit. We picked up a few new school clothes for Zane and some matching outfits for Kaylee and Mia at Children's Place. My favorite store there is the House of Hatten outlet. They have smocked dresses and boys outfits. I was so sad to find out the store(only one in the country) is closing. Mr. Hatten is retiring and they are closing shop. I have really gotten good deals there in the past. We were there on the week before Texas's tax free weekend. With the amount of people there on a Wednesday I cannot imagine what the weekend was like. Some of the stores were staying open 24 hours all weekend. WOW!