Spring Break Vacation Day Eight

On Sunday we checked out of our condo and headed for Tampa. We visited Busch Gardens as a family. Wesley and Davis had fun cards from a previous visit with the church - Daryl, Parker and I all won free one day tickets at the Bucs game on Christmas break. We rode the train through the animal enclosures and hit a couple of the roller coasters: Tigris and Iron Gwazi. 

 We also visited the ice skating show at the Moroccan Palace. 

 

 

I was the only one to the Falcoln's Fury drop. 

Afterwards we found a Bahama Breeze for dinner and then we parted ways - Parker back to Lakeland and the rest of us home to Sarasota (and to pick up the dogs). 

Busch Gardens Trip

The boys got to go back to Busch Gardens this weekend, this time with the youth group from Harvest UMC.  They had a good day. 

Christmas Field Trip

The boys spent a Saturday this month at Busch Gardens with some people from Grace UMC. They had a good time and rode a bunch of roller coasters, including Cheetah Hunt. 

 

 

Middle School Field Trips

The last time I can remember being in Busch Gardens was the summer of 1996 with my mom. They were having some big kind of festival celebrating the Summer Olympics (which were being held in Atlanta that summer).  Busch Gardens is smack in between where I went to high school (1 mile south) and where I went to college (2 miles north). You can see some of the buildings at USF from different parts of the park. Today I went back with Davis for his 6th grade end of year field trip. It was his first time in the park. 

This was our sweet group of 5 kids. It was so much fun to see Davis interacted with friends and really enjoying himself. 

The kids liked the animals all around the park. 

They also liked coasters. They rode Cheetah Hunt twice. Davis discovered he didn't have to be scared of upside down coasters. Later, Davis and Jayden rode the newest, fastest upside down coaster, Iron Gwazi. 

It was a hot but good day. Glad we got to share this time together.