Day 3 SeaWorld!

Day 3 started out with crying as we headed down to San Diego to go to SeaWorld! The girls LOVED it there, which I knew they would getting to see all the animals. I don't know how it happened but we have two animal lovers in our family. The weather was in the 80's and coming from 6 degrees it was HOT! We did not bring the right clothes for the trip and I was reminded of that by the girls more times during this day then needed to be! Josh of course is the only one of us that brought short sleeves so the girls and I just rolled up our sleeves and stayed cool by getting wet at the shows! We sat in the second row for the Shamu show and wouldn't you know it we didn't get a drop of water on us! The girls were VERY upset and so when we got seats for the dolphin show we made sure we sat in better seats, which were also the second row but this time we got drenched! And wouldn't you know it the girls were upset they were wet!! We got to feed the sea-lions with fish, Abby didn't really want to touch the fish while Elizabeth was so into it she could of done it all day! We rode the rides there and of course we shopped at the shops! When Josh and I were planning this trip we were trying to save money and do this trip as cheaply as we could. Knowing our girls and their LOVE of the souvenir...I know they get this from me I just love me a souvenir....we decided to tell them to save their money and they are in charge of buying their own souvenir's. They got money from Grandma and Grandpa Tippetts and Great Grandpa Ford from Christmas and so they payed their tithing and saved every last cent! Before they left my mom gave them each some more money to buy souvenirs with, so that by the end each of them had about 60 dollars to spend on our trip. They were SO funny, they were VERY cautious about not spending it all the first day because they wanted something from each place we went! So they checked ALL the prices and the first day they did ask us for a lot of treats but each time we asked them, "Is that what you want to spend your money on?" And after that they didn't ask us for anything! It was wonderful!! There was no begging, or whinnying, they carefully thought out what they wanted to spend their money on! This however did make us spend a great deal of time in EVERY gift shop because they wanted to see ALL of the options! But by the end of the day Elizabeth picked out a stuffed dolphin and Abby picked out a stuffed Shamu in a pink purse, and they both were happy as can be!

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