Well, vacation ended exciting as always. We had a new thing to do this year. After several years of disrepair, my Dad got JoAnne's pool up and running! Well, the only thing running was the kids as they ran up the diving board! But the pool was full, and felt super-good on hot days.
Dallin!
Tacey & Andrea!
McCade!
Even Koda came along! JoAnne has a lot of bushes in her backyard so he had a lot of things to explore and spiders to chase! My Dad was surprised at how well all the kids swim. I say after all the money we've spent in swimming lessons they better be FISH! We went swimming a lot. . . as you can see Andrea went with us several times. Shannon came once too, but she didn't get in the pool. That day Andrea and Shannon also went with us to Ultrazone - where we got our hineys TOTALLY kicked at Laser Tag. It was fun, but we were getting beaten so badly the employees felt bad for us and started playing on our team. Hooray for the losers! (That would be us. . . ) I don't have any pictures of Laser tag; blue light doesn't help much, sorry! We also went and played Miniature Golf with 'Big Grandpa'.
McCade lining up a shot.
Dallin putting. . . 
the smiles and screams when he made it below par.
Posing with their 'golf equipment'. They didn't realize there was someone else in the picture!
Tacey putting. . .
Dallin!
Tacey & Andrea!
McCade!
Even Koda came along! JoAnne has a lot of bushes in her backyard so he had a lot of things to explore and spiders to chase! My Dad was surprised at how well all the kids swim. I say after all the money we've spent in swimming lessons they better be FISH! We went swimming a lot. . . as you can see Andrea went with us several times. Shannon came once too, but she didn't get in the pool. That day Andrea and Shannon also went with us to Ultrazone - where we got our hineys TOTALLY kicked at Laser Tag. It was fun, but we were getting beaten so badly the employees felt bad for us and started playing on our team. Hooray for the losers! (That would be us. . . ) I don't have any pictures of Laser tag; blue light doesn't help much, sorry! We also went and played Miniature Golf with 'Big Grandpa'.
McCade lining up a shot.
Dallin putting. . . 
the smiles and screams when he made it below par.
Posing with their 'golf equipment'. They didn't realize there was someone else in the picture!
Tacey putting. . .
Shane was in Oklahoma at the time, so he didn't go golfing, but something tells me he had been there before. . .
None of us are going to be ANY competition for Tiger Woods anytime soon! We also took advantage of Andrea's current employment situation; meaning as she is a Sea World Employee, we scored free passes. We made the most of them! And because she is an employee, she was able to bring me home the show schedule and I planned the entire day ahead of time. We saw EVERY SINGLE SHOW!
Of course we saw Cirque De La Mer because Andrea was the smoke behind the magic of this show this year. It has cool acrobatic sea creatures. . . (maybe McCade some day!!!)
They have her strapped in for safety. I guess they though she would dive off or something. . . 
And petted the bat rays. I fuzzed out all the non-important people and just left the good looking ones!
One new show we had never seen before, but is also a place where Andrea is the smoke behind the magic is the 'Pets Rule' show. This is McCade with one of it's stars!
I got to show Shane something new this trip. We left Sea World to eat lunch as we had no desire to pay $4.00 for a simple Hot Dog. We went down the street to Rubio's Mexican Grill and took advantage of FISH TACO TUESDAY! YUMMMMMMM!!!!!
Dallin munching on his fish taco. . .
Shane enjoying his, (McCade pouting because 'we always eat stuff he doesn't like'. I am sorry, but you can only have pizza and hot dogs so often before you go insane. . .)
Tacey lookin' like the rock star she thinks she is!
Everyone, (except McCade who is the pickiest eater on the planet, if it looks weird to him he won't try it) thought they were great! In fact, I need one right now. . . Then it was back to Sea World for Summer Nights.
All-in-all a good day. We made more trips to the Zoo and all our other favorite places. We really could have used another week, but as we had already missed 2 weeks of football, and the kids started school in less than a week, not to mention that is when I have to go back to work, we thought we should probably came back to Idaho. Tacey was really sad to leave, a special note to EVERYONE who made her time and our time in San Diego so wonderful - THANK YOU!
Danielle
Of course we saw Cirque De La Mer because Andrea was the smoke behind the magic of this show this year. It has cool acrobatic sea creatures. . . (maybe McCade some day!!!)
a>Amazing acrobats. . . 
And Andrea! See her there in the hole?
And Andrea! See her there in the hole? They have her strapped in for safety. I guess they though she would dive off or something. . . We also stayed for summer nights there. 
I have never done that before (shocker! I know!), it was a ton of fun! I always wanted to perform at Sea World and work as a Dolphin trainer, but someone told me I wasn't emotionally stable enough. I was like 14 or 15 at the time. I ask you, WHO IS EMOTIONALLY STABLE at 14? the answer NO ONE! Anyway, this is one dream that won't be realized in THIS lifetime, but I love every bit of Sea World anyway! 
Tide pools! (I let the kids wear their bathing suits to Sea World this year - it is standard wardrobe there. My parents never let me do that; I thought it was totally stupid. SOOOO, now that I am 'THE MOM' I let my kids wear their suits!)
Sea Turtle. He wouldn't tell me how old he was.
This is a happy California Cow, because happy cows come from California! As all cows are girls, I am not sure how they got away with cow being topless. . .
I have never done that before (shocker! I know!), it was a ton of fun! I always wanted to perform at Sea World and work as a Dolphin trainer, but someone told me I wasn't emotionally stable enough. I was like 14 or 15 at the time. I ask you, WHO IS EMOTIONALLY STABLE at 14? the answer NO ONE! Anyway, this is one dream that won't be realized in THIS lifetime, but I love every bit of Sea World anyway! 
Tide pools! (I let the kids wear their bathing suits to Sea World this year - it is standard wardrobe there. My parents never let me do that; I thought it was totally stupid. SOOOO, now that I am 'THE MOM' I let my kids wear their suits!)
Sea Turtle. He wouldn't tell me how old he was.
This is a happy California Cow, because happy cows come from California! As all cows are girls, I am not sure how they got away with cow being topless. . .
And petted the bat rays. I fuzzed out all the non-important people and just left the good looking ones!
One new show we had never seen before, but is also a place where Andrea is the smoke behind the magic is the 'Pets Rule' show. This is McCade with one of it's stars!I got to show Shane something new this trip. We left Sea World to eat lunch as we had no desire to pay $4.00 for a simple Hot Dog. We went down the street to Rubio's Mexican Grill and took advantage of FISH TACO TUESDAY! YUMMMMMMM!!!!!
Dallin munching on his fish taco. . .
Shane enjoying his, (McCade pouting because 'we always eat stuff he doesn't like'. I am sorry, but you can only have pizza and hot dogs so often before you go insane. . .) Tacey lookin' like the rock star she thinks she is!Everyone, (except McCade who is the pickiest eater on the planet, if it looks weird to him he won't try it) thought they were great! In fact, I need one right now. . . Then it was back to Sea World for Summer Nights.
All-in-all a good day. We made more trips to the Zoo and all our other favorite places. We really could have used another week, but as we had already missed 2 weeks of football, and the kids started school in less than a week, not to mention that is when I have to go back to work, we thought we should probably came back to Idaho. Tacey was really sad to leave, a special note to EVERYONE who made her time and our time in San Diego so wonderful - THANK YOU!Danielle
