Discovery Kingdom

Yesterday we dropped Simon off with my mom and  headed to Vallejo to take the big boys to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. Mitch had taken them there last year with his sister and their cousin (while I was stuck at home with awful morning sickness), but this was my first time going with them. It was SO much fun! It was freezing cold and cloudy when we got there, but after lunch the clouds burned off, and the weather was a perfect 74 degrees. We spent the whole day there until we were all so exhausted we could hardly walk anymore! I agree with Sawyer when he said it was "the best and most fun day EVER!" Maybe next year Simon will be big enough to join us too!

Waiting for the tiger show to start

Safari Jeep ride

Frog Hopper ride

Playground

Playground Show Off ;)

Watching the dolphins swim

Butterfly Pavillion - the camouflauge on these huge butterflies look like owl's eyes!

Butterfly Pavillion (we were all soaking wet from the rapids water ride we had just been on!)

Checking out the penguins

But it wasn't all just kiddie rides and animals...

After we all rode The Cobra (a small rollercoaster), Sawyer decided that he was ready to tackle the Boomerang with his dad. He actually wanted to go on a couple of the other big rollercoasters, but this was the only thrill ride where he just met the minimum height requirement.

Sutton and I were happy to be waiting at the bottom...but if you zoom in on that track up there...

...you'll see my two brave daredevils in the very front car! Mitch said it was pretty funny because Sawyer really had no frame of reference as to what was going to happen. The cars get pulled to the very top of the left tower, released to go through a corkscrew and loop series, and then back to the top of the right tower where they're released to do the loops again backwards! 

Sawyer said it was a ton of fun, and he was grinning from ear-to-ear when he got off the ride...but later on he admitted that he's not going on any more rollercoasters until he's a little bit older! ♥