Day Seven- Sea World and Travel Home Day

Having to pack up and say goodbye to GKTW was hard to do. We loved the place so much and it also meant an end to our magical trip.
After breakfast, we spent a little time having fun and saying goodbye.
Our boat races (er, bumper boats) got a little heated...


We had to say good bye to "Alexa's Stone" and the ice cream shop. We had one more ice cream to eat in the car on our way to Sea World.
Then we found Natalie's star.

And Natalie made a wish, she didn't tell me because, "some people say it might not come true if you tell." And then we sadly left GKTW.

But at least we got to have some fun at Sea World before we went to the airport...
Stephen seemed to really enjoy the dolphin show, so did Grandma!



We got first dibs and some free fish to feed the dolphins because we were with Make A Wish. That was very cool! That is Natalie's favorite thing at Sea World. We didn't have much time at the park, so we spent it doing her most favorite things.



Next we went to see the Shamu show, Believe.
It was Grandma's "first time," and she loved it. Her face tells it all!



The only thing that we missed at Sea World that Natalie LOVES is the Clyde and Seamore show and the sharks. But we did pretty good considering our limited time. Then it was straight to the airport...

It was a longer flight back because the winds were going the wrong way and The Colonel's energy level tripled during the week we were gone. I don't think I rested a moment on the flight home, I was trying to keep him happy and entertained the entire time. He did ok, but I was exhausted. Oh yeah, he threw a tick tack container and hit the man in front of us in the head...that wasn't so good...he was pretending it was an airplane.

On the bus ride to the parking place, Natalie told a lady ALL about our trip. She told me Natalie should be on commercials (not the first time I have heard that:) Then we stopped for some dinner at Pei Wei and the manager was so sweet and gave us some free cookies after Natalie told her ALL about our trip too! We were sad to leave Disney, but it is ALWAYS good to be home!

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If you want to read more check out the journal entry from October 22nd on Natalie's Caringbridge page.

Also, check out some more really cool pictures from Natalie's send off party- these are from the photographer who so generously donated his services. www.jesseleosphoto.com
And www.equipoleos.com
They turned out great. Thanks so much!!!!