Highlights of Grandma Luci/Grandpa Denny Trip

It was a fun filled, jam packed week with Grandma Luci and Grandpa Denny. The girls had a really good time doing crafts, going to Sea World, and even some of the boring stuff Grandpa Denny liked to do :-). The highlight of the trip, from my viewpoint, was Emma's successful fishing expedition. We'd yet to catch anything other than seaweed and sun, but with pro-fisher Grandma Luci telling Emma which lure to use and where to drop her line, in less than 1 minute, Emma was reeling in her first little blue gill. We even have a picture to prove it.One of the neat crafts the girls did was making vases out of baking soda, corn starch and water. It's the newer version of ivory soap flakes, which come to find out, are no longer made. But, the concoction the girls used worked great and was mess-free (yippee!). Bill and I now have beautiful vases for our offices.

The girls also painted their pumpkins. We first headed off to Home Depot for the perfect pumpkins. The girls walked in, went to the bin, and picked the first pumpkin they saw. No debate, no inspection, nothing. Grandpa at least had to influence to have them choose ones with handles, which we put in the back of the car where they proceeded to roll around and snap the handles off any way. Painting is definitely the way to go when the kiddos are too little to carve.

We ventured down to SeaWorld for the day and had the most amazing time. The weather was perfect and the place was decorated for Halloween. We fed the dolphins, watched the beluga show, saw Shamu. But, the big event was that Emma rode the Shamu rollercoaster for the first time and loved it. They then rode the spinning tea cups with Grandma. Emma was shouting "faster, faster" and Lauren was shouting "slower, slower". At least it didn't go up and down, or Grandma would've been shouting "let me out, let me out"!