After spending one day recovering from Disney and one day at a family reunion (where I met a TON of people I had never met- and we have been married 5 years!), we took the whole crew to Busch Gardens in Tampa. Unfortunately this was another 2 hour drive. We got there later than the rest of the group because of a bad accident on the freeway. This actually worked out for the better because they(the young group) wanted to ride all the BIG roller coasters. Riley wasn't tall enough to ride any of these so we went the opposite direction to the animals. We today consisted of Grandad Tom & Grandma Sandy, Randy, April, Riley, and Alex. First stop was the Amheiser Busch Clydesdales. We were sad to learn that they no longer have the beer school at the park. 
The horse was actually getting his hair blow dryed!
Then we saw the hippos. This was the first time I had ever seen one truly swimming. Most of the time I see them from the top of the water. The really glide through the water pretty easily. But I wouldn't want to meet one while I was swimming!
Sweet kiddos!
Alex on the sky ride with daddy. We got a great view of all the fun things we didn't want to miss throughout the day.
Alex just wanted to stand up and eat the bar!
Riley rode with Grandma Sandy & Grandad Tom
On the train ride around the whole park
Up close picture of one of the rhinos
The really big turtle that we saw
Sharing Grandad's sun hat
Unfortunately our day turned into a rainy day. They even shut down all the rides at one point. After all the rain majority of the group left to go home. Alex went home with Grandma & Grandad to take a nap. Randy, Riley, & I stayed to ride some more rides. One of the best ones we did was the Rhino Rally. This is a ride where about 15 people packed into a land cruiser and go around and look at all the animals. As we were getting on, they asked if Riley wanted to be the navigator. So cool! This meant that throughout the ride the driver would ask Riley which way to go or have everyone respond to Riley. Here was our driver.
Here was the best picture that we could get of Riley as the navigator.
Then finally the roller coaster rides opened up and we got in line for a second time for Riley to ride a real roller coaster. Here he is in his rain gear outside the Scorpion. It went upside down! He rode this one in the very back car with the rain pelting us in our eyes. So far, Riley has ridden 2 roller coasters -one in the very front car and the other in the very back car- and absolutely LOVED both of them.
After that exciting adventure, we decided we had had enough rain and headed to Bradon to eat a fabulous prime rib dinner at the Bradon Ale House. The next day we started for home to end our vacation.
The horse was actually getting his hair blow dryed!
Then we saw the hippos. This was the first time I had ever seen one truly swimming. Most of the time I see them from the top of the water. The really glide through the water pretty easily. But I wouldn't want to meet one while I was swimming!
Sweet kiddos!
Alex on the sky ride with daddy. We got a great view of all the fun things we didn't want to miss throughout the day.
Alex just wanted to stand up and eat the bar!
Riley rode with Grandma Sandy & Grandad Tom
On the train ride around the whole park
Up close picture of one of the rhinos
The really big turtle that we saw
Sharing Grandad's sun hatUnfortunately our day turned into a rainy day. They even shut down all the rides at one point. After all the rain majority of the group left to go home. Alex went home with Grandma & Grandad to take a nap. Randy, Riley, & I stayed to ride some more rides. One of the best ones we did was the Rhino Rally. This is a ride where about 15 people packed into a land cruiser and go around and look at all the animals. As we were getting on, they asked if Riley wanted to be the navigator. So cool! This meant that throughout the ride the driver would ask Riley which way to go or have everyone respond to Riley. Here was our driver.
Here was the best picture that we could get of Riley as the navigator.
Then finally the roller coaster rides opened up and we got in line for a second time for Riley to ride a real roller coaster. Here he is in his rain gear outside the Scorpion. It went upside down! He rode this one in the very back car with the rain pelting us in our eyes. So far, Riley has ridden 2 roller coasters -one in the very front car and the other in the very back car- and absolutely LOVED both of them.
After that exciting adventure, we decided we had had enough rain and headed to Bradon to eat a fabulous prime rib dinner at the Bradon Ale House. The next day we started for home to end our vacation.
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