Austin. Mom. Blog. » play area http://www.austinmomblog.com An Austin Area Mom's Blog Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Spring Break Continues http://www.austinmomblog.com/spring-break-continues/ http://www.austinmomblog.com/spring-break-continues/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:06:35 +0000 Dianna http://www.austinmomblog.com/?p=248 I am finally getting the chance to finish our spring break vacation details. The last time I wrote, we had finished up with the zoo. We still had a lot of time on our hands for the rest of the day, so we decided to go to Six Flags. Our plan was to go the next day, but we decided to go both days. We arrived at 5:30. It was perfect. There were not any lines for the season pass processing center or hardly any lines for the kids’ rides. We left at 8:30 since we were going to come back the next day. We didn’t want to drag it out too long and have the kids exhausted. Wednesday arrives and we head out to Six Flags again. The time is 11:30 a.m. and we are in stop and go traffic to proceed through the gates of Six Flags. It took us one hour to go through the gates and park our vehicle. During the wait, my husband decided to go in and check out how long the lines were for the rides. It was ridiculous. The rides we rode the day before would now take us an hour to get on. It just wasn’t worth it. We decided not to park and head home. Luckily, we have season passes and could easily come again another time. I am happy we went the night before and got to enjoy the park for a little while. I’m not sure why it wasn’t busy that night, but I honestly believe we will not attempt to go to any theme parks another spring break. The boys were pretty disappointed we didn’t go, so we decided to visit Cameron Park Zoo in Waco. By far, this is our favorite zoo. It’s the perfect size for Andrew and Collin. Andrew is five and Collin is four. It’s not so big where it’s overwhelming. The zoo has a new area that is called Asian Forest. It includes orangutans, tigers, and komodo dragons. It included a play area for the children to climb on or hang from ropes like an orangutan. We have been to the Cameron Park Zoo before, but the Asian Forest hadn’t been opened yet. We finished touring the zoo in two hours and finally headed for home. I love being on vacation, but there’s no place like home.

Cameron Park Zoo

]]> http://www.austinmomblog.com/spring-break-continues/feed/ 0 SeaWorld’s Christmas Celebration http://www.austinmomblog.com/seaworlds-christmas-celebration/ http://www.austinmomblog.com/seaworlds-christmas-celebration/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:30:11 +0000 Dianna http://www.austinmomblog.com/?p=117 We went to Sea World in San Antonio on Friday and had a blast.  I’m already in the Christmas spirit and going to Sea World enforced it more.  We first went to see the dolphins and fortunately it was feeding time.  We paid $5 for four fish.  It was worth it.  When feeding the dolphins you are able to pet them in the process.  The boys’ expressions were priceless.  Next we went to the show of “A Sesame Street Christmas.”  When the sesame street characters came onstage I got teary eyed.  I was overwhelmed on how much our little family was enjoying this.  The boys didn’t move once.  They were mesmerized.  Near the end, my oldest (he’s 5)  finally said he was too old for this, but he hung in there.  We then headed to a huge play area with sand and rope climbing.  My oldest did the rope climbing and my youngest played in the sand.  Fortunately both my husband and I were present so we could split up for this.  When going to theme parks,  I never venture out alone.  Next we went by alligator alley where we saw several alligators surrounding a pond.  They had a .25 cent machine to feed the fish which we took part in.   The boys were aiming for the alligators so they would move, but they had no luck.  We then went to the show “Deck the Halls with Clyde & Seamore.”  This was a show full of sea lions acting out a skit for Christmas.  Once again the boys were mesmerized and didn’t move once.  This time my oldest didn’t ask to leave.  Sea World had a 4D showing of Polar Express, but unfortunately we didn’t make it in time.  We stood in line, but the theater got full before it was our turn.  We got to see a 4D showing of Polar Express when we went to Moody Gardens in Galveston and from what I remember it was awesome.  On our way out we saw the world-famous Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales and the boys got to pet one.  We really had a lot of fun.  There was still so much we didn’t get to see because we were short on time so I’m hoping we will make another trip back.  If you have a chance to go to Sea World for the Christmas Celebration, I totally recommend it.

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