There's a new show starting at SeaWorld San Diego today, Madagascar Live! Operation Vacation.
Photograph courtesy of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment
Kids are going to love this 20-minute song and dance extravaganza featuring some of their favorite Madagascar characters including Alex the lion, Mort, King Julien, Gloria and our favorite penguins Skipper, Private, Kowalski and Rico. There are dancers, a rock/pop band playing live music, and meet and greets for park guests.
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None of my boys have a sweet tooth, they will occasionally indulge in cookies and love ice cream, but they don't really eat dessert, cake, or anything with icing, so these cupcakes are perfect for a dad who doesn't like cupcakes covered in icing.
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Yesterday we attended the preview of Sea World's newest waterpark in San Diego, Aquatica.
It is AMAZING!
I let the kids have a day off school to attend the event, and for just one day (it happens rarely) I was the best mum in the world.
We arrived at 10am when it opened and left at 5pm when it closed, and the kids would have stayed longer if they could.
I've shared a review and information about Aquatica over at The Mom Reviews this morning, but I wanted to share a few more personal photographs here, as well as some of the fun event photos; because this was a special preview day there was lots of extra fun including dancers, a band, and special animal encounters.
Before we arrived at the event, I'd decided that I was going to do something I don't do often enough, I was going to step out from behind my camera a little and actually have fun with my children. I locked my camera in the locker in our cabana for part of the time, strapped the key around my arm, took off my cover-up and actually went into the water with the kids, and it felt good. It felt even better to see Marisol so happy as we each sat in our inner tubes and held hands around the lazy river. It felt good to get over my fear of being seen in a swimsuit in public and enjoy a day of fun and smiles with the kids.
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A couple of days ago we were invited to attend a preview of the new San Diego Zoo Australian Outback exhibit Koalafornia which opens to the public tomorrow (Friday the 24th of May) after the opening ceremony at 9am.
You are going to love this new exhibit. As an Aussie who has visited the koalas, kangaroos and wombats at the Zoo for years, I am so happy to see they have a much larger 3-acre space now.
We were taken on a guided tour of the new exhibit by Zookeeper Rick.
We began our tour learning about the one-of-a-kind totem poles, wandered past the birds, new wombat and wallaby enclosure, past the gift shop and Sydney's hangout (which is a great place to stop for lunch), and then into the Koala Exhibit.
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One of my favorite activities during the Elevate conference was learning about Sole Hope. Nat and Micah shared the video of Sole Hope with us and had set up a cutting party outside for us, where we traced, cut fabric, and learned about how these shoes will help prevent jigger infestations in children's feet as well as provide jobs for women in Uganda who have been trained in sewing the shoes.
I love that these shoes are made from recycled materials and scraps of fabric.
We were provided with scraps, instruction sheets, and permanent markers, and were asked to bring pinking shears or fabric scissors with us to the conference for cutting.
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Last weekend I headed to the Elevate Blog Conference. You may remember that I went last year, and this will not be the first post where I discuss the conference this year.
When I saw this project outside, on a table, overlooking the sand and water I couldn't wait to get started.
There were a few options to choose from, but I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to make a string art map for my little man to hang on his bedroom wall.
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