Florida: Busch Gardens

We decided to do something different on this trip to Florida and spent the second half of the week with Keith's sister and her family in Tampa with her in-laws.

This was our first trip to Busch Gardens and it was great! The kids loved it!


We spent the first half of the day exploring the animals.

These guys were my favorite. So fun to see these lady hippos "dancing" around in the water!

The cousins were so happy to be together!

Hello Handsomes!

More cuties.

Ty guy always wanting to learn. He had questions for all the zoo keepers.

They had this AWESOME area full of ropes to climb and walk across! It was like a giant tree-house/jungle gym! We spent hours here! There were monkey cages all around and you could climb out and feel like you were in the trees with them!

The ropes were enough to tire one little girl out!

There were rides for all of the kids. Ty and Carter were all about the big, fast rides while Paige was satisfied spinning slowly in circles.

Carter wasn't quite tall enough to ride the bigger roller coaters, but he must have rode this one 20 times!

This guy was born to ride!

On our way out Keith and I noticed that one of the big roller coasters sprayed the sidewalk as it went by so we told the kids to go watch the coaster go down the hill. HILARIOUS watching them getting soaked unexpectedly! Of course they went back for more!

Busch Gardens. Check.