Sunday Surprise

This past month Jim has been working very long hours and frequently not getting home until 9 or 10 o'clock at night. This doesn't make for much family time. If I was lucky, I would see him maybe 30 minutes before he would turn into a Pez head (head back, mouth open) sleeping in his chair. More often than not, Jacob didn't see Daddy at all! I had to remind him it was better than Daddy being on deployment and to be thankful for a times he did see him. This past weekend, we thought we may be in the clear now that the plant is up and running...it broke and Jim had to work all day Saturday (this is such a familiar scenario in our lives.) So, on Sunday, Jim surprised Jacob, #1 by being here when he woke up and #2 with a trip to Sea World!

It has been years since we've been to Sea World and of course that was in San Diego and Jacob was four! Jim took such a round about drive to get there that Jacob fell asleep at one point and then didn't guess our destination until he started seeing the signs. Even then he wasn't sure since we have explored that area of San Antonio before. He was happy when we finally turned into the entry lanes and confirmed our plans.

Jacob was especially excited about Shamu and the rest of the killer whales. He sat in the "soak zone" several rows in front of us (Jim and I were one row behind the "splash zone" seats.) He loved his close-up view, but was rather disappointed that he didn't get soaked! Looked like most of the soaking for the center section was across the pool (where the big screen's camera feed is located) and our side didn't get as much water. I've taken a mental note of this for future visits!




Jacob also enjoyed feeding the dolphins.


Even though the weather was dreary, our day was sunny because we were together as a family!