Ft. Wilderness January 2017

When your oldest is turning 16, and TobyMac is in concert at the Praise Wave event by SeaWorld....you head to Ft. Wilderness! (January 13-16)

Nothing new here - we love Ft. Wilderness!  We arrived Friday evening after 5pm.  It was surprisingly raining.  We got set up, had dinner and gave Delena her 16th birthday gift.  (Her actual day was Sunday but...)...we got her a Nikon digital camera since she has a budding photography talent.  We wanted her to have the camera for the weekend to shoot pics at SeaWorld and the Fort.

Saturday - we headed to SeaWorld for Praise Wave.  We LOVE TobyMac and was so excited he was performing at Praise Wave.  We met friends who used our friend for free tickets.  The kids rode some rides while the moms stood in line to get front row seats.  Yes, we got amazing seats!  TobyMac did an awesome concert and we loved our day at SeaWorld.  We headed back to Ft. Wilderness about 5pm and ate some quick dinner.  We rode bikes around and checked out the campground.

Sunday was Delena's actual birthday.  We basically spent the whole day just hanging at the fort, hot tub, riding bikes, enjoying the RV.  Around 3:30, we headed over to Beaches & Cream soda shop at the Beach Club Resort for birthday ice cream - The Kitchen Sink!  After we ate all we could of the kitchen sink, we walked around the resort area before heading back to Ft. Wilderness.


Monday morning we checked out and headed home jumping right into YIG and TKD.  It was a quick trip but such a memorable one - lots of memories - Sweet 16, SeaWorld and TobyMac!  The only sad thing about the entire weekend --- this was the first trip to SeaWorld after Tilikum passed away.  It had only been a week since he died when we went and that was very sad.  We sure missed seeing him.











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