After hanging out at the hotel all day we met up with Nana and Papa and Jason (my brother) and Maria and their girls. We went to the Mickey's not so scarry halloween party and we had a blast! I was a little disappointed in how crowded the streets were but you could walk right up to any ride. We had fun dressing up and getting our faces painted but our fairy wings didn't last very long. We had to take them off to ride the rides and when we walked around with them we kept poking people with our wings so they ended up in the stroller and we looked a little more like ballerinas for most of the night. It rained on us when we first got to the park but luckily it didn't last too long and we had a great evening.
We got tons of candy!!! Atleast we won't have to buy any candy to give out at halloween.
Lauren was finally tall enough to ride splash mountain and she loved it! On the other hand, Lydia cried because we kept seeing a lot of empty carts going down so she thought the people had fallen out so she thought we would fall out. Needless to say she wasn't getting back in line to ride that one.
The parade was awesome. We almost had as much fun watching Lauren watch the parade as we did watching the actual parade. She was really enjoying herself. We also really had a lot of fun at the dance party. The kids got to dance with Donald Duck (dressed in a pumpkin costume) and Pluto.
The next day we went to Sea World. We love Sea World! It's not Disney but I'm not sure that the kids don't enjoy it just as much. I love being able to push a double stroller around and not bumping in to anyone. There were times when we would have the whole side walk to ourselves. The shows our great and my kids (even Andrew) are still going around chanting "Shamu! Shamu!" The pictures I took are of the kids getting ready to watch a show and the girls on the glass floor with fish swimming under them. That might have been their favorite part. Of course I love the pic of PaPa in the stoller. Don't we all wish they made those big enough for adults???
Many of you know I have been training for my first 5k. I ran on Saturday and my goal was to run the whole way and finish strong. Now I will just have to work on my time. I did it in 33 min. and for those of you who are runners you know that's not great but I was very pleased. I was happy to finish under 45 min. so I was thrilled with 33. The best part of it all was that I felt great after the race. I was glad to cross the finish line but I felt like I could have kept going so that just tells me that next time I can speed it up a little. This is such a big accomplished for me because just a few months ago I was out of breath just running 1/4 a mile and I have slowly worked my way up. My ultimate goal is to do a triathlon. I think that would be so awesome so now I am going to start training for that. In the pictures are Amanda Meyers, Andrea Balcena, and me. It was all of our first race. Sarah Murray also raced with us but somehow I didn’t get any pictures of her but she did great.
The rest of the day we stayed pretty busy. Some friends of ours were there to cheer me on at the race and they joined us as we went to a Fall Festival mainly so the kids could ride on a pony. It was Andrew's first time and of course he loved it. His only complaints would be that they didn't go fast enough and it didn't last long enough. I had to pry him off. Then after grabbing a bite to eat we headed out to the Headland airport for a "Fly In" . We watched several planes take off and land and the kids got to sit in our neighbors plane and pretend to be real pilots. It was a busy Saturday but we had a great day.
