What do Shamu and air mattresses have in common?

Nothing, unless you go camping and visit Sea World!

After I came home from traveling Thursday and Alan finished his PAL tests, we loaded up the car and headed to San Antonio. Five and half hours and a lot of traffic later, we arrived at the San Antonio KOA. We were a bit sceptical as we got off the freeway and passed some ghetto business and industrial sites, but the campsite ended up being pretty nice. Especially seeing that it is like 10 minutes from downtown San Antonio.

We met up with our friends Jake and Maren and their little girl Tesa. We were pretty exhausted and it was pretty late so we set up our tent (good thing we practiced putting it up in our living room, since it was pretty dark!) We found out that my air mattress had been attacked by some bug that likes rubber so we had to buy a new one. Alan took care of that while I was out of town...it's a good thing we bought a big tent and brought an electric pump! It was super comfy!

The next morning our other friends Chris and Mindy and their two boys Cameron and Collin arrived and we headed to Sea World! I was excited since I had never been! The weather was so warm, and we had a good time. These are some of the pictures of the shows we saw. I always thought there were more animal tricks involved, but a lot of the shows were very choreographed and showcasing the people more.

If you look close you can see Alan! Just kidding, but I hear that this has always been his dream job!

We even got to feed the dolphins, talk about pampered mammals! I want their schedule, swim around in a tank, have people feed me every hour...

Alan's favorite was the huge indoor aquarium, he could have stayed in there all day and just watched the fish!

I really liked the penguins, again I wonder if they get bored. We stayed in the penguin room for a while to cool off, and some of those penguins didn't move at all!