Soil, Sea World, Spiders Oh My!

Whew what a weekend!
Saturday we got up at 6:30, threw on some clothes and then I headed to my parents house while Peter headed to his parents house. Peter picked up Chris' truck and my dad and I borrowed my brother's truck and then we headed to Evergreen Nursery. We were there at 7:22am-they open at 7:30am. We got in and got out with two truck loads of amended soil and were at my work at 8am. I had a few parents meet me at the school and we unloaded the two trucks into 8 planter boxes in 1 hour and 20 minutes! It was amazing how fast it all went. By 10am I was back at my parents' house picking up my car and heading home.
We got cleaned up and then headed to Sea World. Peter's company was having a company day at Sea World. We got into the park for $17 each and also each received a $15 voucher good for food or merchandise throughout the park. At 6pm the park closed, but everyone wearing a special tag got to stay until midnight. There were a ton of people there! Peter had no idea the company was that big. (Many people came from Utah too.)
We managed to walk next to each animal during feeding time. I don't know how we managed to do that, but every place we stopped was feeding time. The otters we saw first. They were super cute. They were playing with balls that were stuck in ice. One kept trying to crack the ice to get the ball out. Ice was flying everywhere. We also saw the bat rays. The dolphins were also playing with balls, hitting them with the tip of their nose and sending them flying into the air. There was also a log type of thing that they kept rolling on top of. Next we saw the turtles...the baby ones were being fed. There were a couple big ones sleeping and a couple of big ones swimming, but they were separated from the babies.
We fed some ducks with the pellets that were left on the duck food table. It was like checking to see if all the candy was dispensed....and guess what?! Someone left some food behind so we picked it up and fed the ducks. Saved us 50 cents from buying our own, though I did offer it to Peter. We all know how much he loves the ducks. The seals and sea lions were also being fed. We had to laugh at the fish vendor sign...in case you can't do math they spell it out for you: "1 tray-$6.00, 2 trays-$12.00, 3 trays-$18.00, 4 trays- $24.00, and 5 trays- $30.00"

At some point we went to see the Clydesdales. We had to take a picture of Chris here for Peter's brother Chris.
We also touched sea stars and nearly got attacked by one giant one. Peter got his picture taken with a "I'm getting attacked by a giant star" face on, but it came out blurry. Many of our other pictures came out blurry too. We met up with Greg, Ellen and Ethan and had dinner followed by the Shamu show. Before the Shamu show Greg and Peter had fun putting coins in the water cannons and squirting the rafts as people came by on the Shipwreck Rapids ride. It was a chilly time of the day, so the people on the ride were just plain crazy. They were drenched when the guys were done with them. At one point Greg put the quarter in and told Peter when to push the button. The people got soaked and all looked back to where Peter was pointing at Greg. It was funny. Another time Greg waited for a raft to come close and then he slammed down on the cannon button. He hadn't put any coins in, the people on the raft were like "Oh no...followed by oh." That was hilarious!As we were leaving the park we saw this advertisement for the Wild Animal Park. It was too funny to pass up.

Oh yes, we also upgraded our passes and got silver passports to Sea World for $49 each instead of the usual $89 each. So now we have year passes to Sea World, Zoo and The Wild Animal Park. We haven't gone to the wild animal park yet...so that will be another adventure. When they were printing out our passes I started laughing...then realized which pass had my name on it. One pass had dolphins on it, the other had sesame street on it. I got the sesame street pass. What a bummer!

Sunday morning as I was getting ready for church I put my skirt on the bed and went back for a shirt. An eight legged nasty creature was found on the bed. I was like, "eh eh eh ewww, no...not on my skirt...oh no you don't, it's in my skirt!." Peter heard me and came running upstairs. While I was trying to look for something to squish the spider with it had gone from bed to top of skirt to inside of skirt. I finally grabbed some tissues. Peter told me to wait, he was going to look for the vacuum. Well I didn't wait, I squished the spider inside my tissue and then threw it in the trash. Then I shook out my skirt several times, gave it a complete look down and then proceeded to finish getting ready for church. While I was downstairs ironing my shirt Peter was in the pantry looking for crackers. He jumps out screaming, "That's spider territory." I thought for sure we were going to have another spider incident...we didn't. He was just letting me know that there could be a spider in there, but he never saw one. About a month ago he saw a spider run across the front of our pantry floor and into a corner. We haven't seen it again. So whenever we go into the pantry we're careful.