Work then Play

First off - Happy Birthday Chris!!! Hope you have a fantastic Friday. We wish we could be there to celebrate with you guys!

Last weekend Eric and I originally had plans to go up to visit my Aunt Janet because they were having a little beer brewing/pizza party to prepare for the Halloween party next month. We were really looking forward to getting away for a weekend. Somehow, we got dates mixed up and forgot we had promised Alison we would help them move that weekend. We didn't realize until a couple days before we were supposed to leave. They only rented a truck for that Saturday. With just her and her husband, and two little girls - we knew we couldn't back out. So sorry we missed your party Aunt Janet - we can't wait to come visit in October though!

So Saturday morning we headed over to Alison's place to start loading up the truck.



They were moving from an apartment into a little townhouse that was only about five miles away.



They had already been moving some of the smaller stuff the week before so it was mostly bigger furniture/last minute things.





We got some pizza and had lunch on their empty living room floor.



After lunch we headed over to their new place, it's very cute!



Now time to unpack again.



Sydney loves having stairs.



I didn't get too many pictures of their new place but it's very cute and they have more room, even a little patio/yard area to grill and eat outside.



And a two car garage! Something I hope for one day :)



Once everything was unloaded from the truck, it was getting close to dinnertime so we left them to enjoy their new house and unpack.

The next morning Eric and I threw some sandwiches and some extra clothes in a backpack, rode our bikes to church, and then straight from there to SeaWorld.



We love biking on Sunday mornings, it's such a nice way to start the day.





Throughout the year they have different themed shows. We happened to get there just in time to make their Spooky Kooky Castle Halloween-inspired sea lion show. This is the show Eric always remembered from when he went to Seaworld as a kid so it was an awesome surprise when we saw it was on the schedule that day.





We rode a roller coaster, which also happened to be Halloween-themed. It starts out in a tunnel where they usually project underwater fish/etc. This time it was pumpkins, spider webs, and fire.



We walked through an area that was Dia de los Muertos themed to get to the rapids ride. There were also little kids dressed up in costumes running around everywhere. They had different candy stations set up for kids to go trick-or-treating.





We ended up getting pretty soaked on the rapids ride. Thankfully it's still pretty warm here.



And lastly we finished off by going up in the Sky Tower which Eric had never done and I had only seen at night.



It was really cool to see during the day. We could see the ocean and loved trying to point out where we live and other places we know. We were a little too mesmerized to remember to take a picture at the top.



Afterwards we biked back home and watched football with our roomie the rest of the day. It was a great Sunday and nice to have a little "us" time. We are enjoying taking advantage of things that are so close to us!