A trip to Tampa with friends

The first weekend of November we packed up with the Walsky's and Cruce's and left EARLY Saturday morning for a weekend in Tampa. Earlier in the year Busch Gardens opened up a new kiddo area - Sesame Street Safari and offered free preschool passes. Yeah, what a great marketing tool to get parents to come with their kids - free for kids but Busch Gardens gets the money from the parents' tickets. Well, we were the suckers - mostly the wives and the husbands just joined in.


We left about 5AM and headed straight to Busch Gardens for the day. We had watched the weather but some of us still weren't prepared - John and I had to buy gloves once we got inside thankfully they were only $5. Who would have thought it would have been so cold - hat & gloves cold.

All excited to be there and reading the map to tell us where we need to go next.

Our first stop was the Sesame Street Safari area which we were pretty sure we would be there for a few hours - so true!! The kids loved it and rode tons of rides and walked/ran through tons of playground areas. What a kids' dream.

Grover and Zoe

On the Grover roller coaster


Yes, I rode this along with Keith and John. It was a 90 degree drop which was a sure rush!! It was a great ride.

The kids were able to get so close to the kangaroos which was pretty cool - they could actually pet them.