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This update takes place from our next park Seaworld San antonio. While I really did enjoy this park, it seemed like it was lacking a handful of attractions. Maybe it's because I am used to the Orlando park, but none the less we had a great time.

 

The one thing about this park is that there is a bit of a walk between attractions. But that walk is full of nice landscaping. The new sea rescue coaster was not a big thrill coaster, but it is perfect fun for family's. We were a bit perplexed st the layout of this park, as a section of it is located outside of the gates. If you wanted to, you could enter the park and go see the dolphins and sharks without paying to enter the park. We actually had to exit the park to see these attractions.

 

We visited the day after the 4th of July, and the crowds were very light. A few of the workers were saying that they were slammed the day before.

 

Onto some pictures....

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Today's park

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First coaster of the day

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It's a Morgan hypercoaster

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It was kinda hard to get a decent picture of this coaster

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Uncovered station shot.

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The supports for this ride are huge

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This is the parks new attraction

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You are seated on jet ski's. I found the lap bars to be a little odd.

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This is the biggest hill of the coaster

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The line and area around the ride are landscaped nicely

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I imagine that people would be greatful that most the line is covered on those hot Texas days.

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Station shot

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The penguin house is a great way to cool down and check out some penguins.

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Great white is a B&M inverted coaster. I believe it's another Batman clone.

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My kind of wait

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Just like the sign said....no wait.

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Yes...the park was dead today

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This was an interesting water ride...journey to Atlantis

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This water coaster has a reverser table

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Lift hill porn

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Big splash!!

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Keeping in line with showing pictures of coaster stations...here ya go.

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Time to see the star of the park. I loved and appreciated the cover over the stadium

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We had great seats in the splash zone

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And we did get soaked

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My daughter was thrilled

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This park has a great kids area full of water features.

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They also had the ss characters on hand

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The pet show is basically the same as the Florida version...and that's a good thing.

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The kids loved how they let you interact with the animals after the show

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The sea lion show was one of our favorite shows

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Yep....they have dolphins as well

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This was pretty cool

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Here are a few pictures from inside

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The coral displays were amazing

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I got a chuckle out of this one

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The next show was the beluga whale show. This was another great looking stadium.

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The evening shamu show was great!

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The final show of the night was at the ski stadium. It was a combination of awsome rock music and water ski, and jet ski.

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It was really hard to get a picture of the ski portions of the show.

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That's it from seaworld...next stop is the original six flags park. Six flags over Texas.

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As others have said, I need to get to all of the parks in Texas.

 

Did you guys do Schlitterbahn? It always looked like a cool water park (the main one), but I have heard that it's all spring water and it's like ice water - even on those hot Texas days.

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As others have said, I need to get to all of the parks in Texas.

 

Did you guys do Schlitterbahn? It always looked like a cool water park (the main one), but I have heard that it's all spring water and it's like ice water - even on those hot Texas days.

 

No, we didn't. We are not huge water park people, but would still love to check it out on our next trip to Texas in the future.

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Crazy day today, so update will have to wait till tomorrow. But here is some Whataburger to hold you over.....Btw, not sure what all the fuss is about? It was good, but not by any means earth shattering. Now I just need to eat at a in and out burger.

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Crazy day today, so update will have to wait till tomorrow. But here is some Whataburger to hold you over.....Btw, not sure what all the fuss is about? It was good, but not by any means earth shattering. Now I just need to eat at a in and out burger.

I was never impressed with them when they were here in FL. There is a smaller family owned chain in NC called What-A-Burger that puts those Whataburgers to shame. It's more like Sonic, but still has an old school feel.

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Crazy day today, so update will have to wait till tomorrow. But here is some Whataburger to hold you over.....Btw, not sure what all the fuss is about? It was good, but not by any means earth shattering. Now I just need to eat at a in and out burger.

 

I have never eaten at a Whataburger, but I agree...that doesn't look all that great.

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The bun doesn't look that great, let alone the rest of what can be seen, in it.

 

But when ya gotta eat... ya gotta eat, what you can get.

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This next update is Huge, just like the park is. Today's stop brings us to Six flags over Texas. This is the first ever six flags park. We really did like this park, even though it had one of the most confusing layouts.

 

The star of the show here is definitely the Texas giant. The Texas giant falls on my top 10 list...can you guess what number 1 is? While it is a great ride, it seemed to be lacking something. Can't put my finger on it though. I did enjoy the rattler more than this one. With that being said, let's move onto some pictures shall we?

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After driving around for 30 min to find the entrance due to the lack of signs, we finnaly arived!

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The titan makes itself known from the parking lot

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So does La Vibra

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History and stuff....

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Here is the park entrance

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And look who was there to greet us!

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So we turned left, got lost, and found our first ride of the day.

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This dark ride uses boats.

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Fun ride, but maybe a bit outdated. Kids loved this one.

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Next up was the parks indoor coaster runaway mountain. Thank God there was no lines today.

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This was a fun coaster, plus it was air conditioned.

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After a brief breakdown, we got to ride. Fun coaster. Would have liked to ride it again during our visit, but kept getting side tracked and missed out.

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The parks scrambler looked like it was an original ride that opened with the park.

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Even the outdoor line had air conditioning piped in.

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With the hot weather, a ride on a log flume sounded good.

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So apparently, this log flume has two different channels. One was in use, this one was not.

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This flume was just ok. Apparently it was the first one ever built.

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So....we came across this giant of a coaster.

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This coaster is huge!

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First drop

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Most of the layout. Notice how it looks very similar to the mean streak version?

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I'm loving the theaming of the train.

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Station theaming

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I loved the chicken coop waiting area in the station. Not only was it a perfect place to complete our parent swap, but it also made chicken noises.

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Anybody know what the white brackets are for on the first drop?

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Brake run

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One last look at Texas giant. I love this shot.

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In the western area, they have this hilarious show. The staff was kind enough to let us take a picture with them.

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La Vibra is a bobsled coaster. These are becoming rare.

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Lift hill

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Station shot

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Some of the layout.

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One last look

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Time for a spin on the parks train.

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But first, you have to buy tickets from this guy.

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Wanted to check this ouy, but it was closed

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This was a pretty interesting spin and puke ride.

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Interesting....

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This was one hard coaster to find

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Very hard to get a decent shot of this coaster.

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Station shot

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It was a decent coaster...nothing too exciting

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The riddler. I'm not sure, but this version seemed bigger than other versions I have been on.

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It also had a hell of a light package

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The Texas version of the spinning coaster

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A few looks at it spinning

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Station shot.

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We're only about half way through the Texas six flags park. Look for much more tomorrow.

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^ Is that a trio of ....tamales?

 

Ole' indeed.

 

Great TR. I really do want to visit the Texas parks.

Well, at least this one, and Fiesta Texas.

 

Looking forward to Part 2, and more!

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^ Is that a trio of ....tamales?

 

Ole' indeed.

 

Great TR. I really do want to visit the Texas parks.

Well, at least this one, and Fiesta Texas.

 

Looking forward to Part 2, and more!

 

So that's what they are...lol.

We were trying to figure out what they were. I thought is was candy at first.

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Nice report. I've only been to SeaWorld San Diego so I definitely need to check out the others. Wave Breaker looks like a nice little coaster.

 

It is.

Just don't expect it to be a big thrill ride. It's the perfect family coaster.

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