SeaFair--Navy ships

To celebrate SeaFair they brought in three Navy ships for people to tour. We thought the boys would enjoy them and so we ventured out with our buddies Brayden, Bennett, and Kristen. We ended up having a great time with some AWESOME stories to tell!

Story #1: We arrived at the first ship to find a 90 minute wait to tour the ship. We decided that was to long and so we walked a little over a mile to the next ship. This one was only a 20 minute wait. We decided to go for it! We had to walk through a metal detector and so me and the boys with our double stroller and Kristen with her boys geared up for the walk through. We were "THOSE MOMS" people talk about. A bunch of little kids with tons of crap and a crying child. Benson was perfectly happy and ready to go until I had to unhook his insulin pump "buddy" from his body and give it to the soldier (imagine being Bensons size and giving your best friend to a scary looking man with a gun strapped across his chest). Benson went into hysterics. Literally. He was sobbing because he thought he was going to lose buddy (metal detectors damage insulin pumps so they can't go through the scanner). So both Kristen and I are trying to get everything through, our stroller set aside, and the kids in order for the ship with Benson screaming because they took buddy for all of 5 seconds! I must admit--it made me proud to see Benson so concerned and upset about his buddy. Buddy will be his friend for the rest of his life and I am glad he takes such great care of him! We ended up walking 30 feet behind the rest of the group until we made it on the ship and Benson settled down.
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Story #2: THIS IS HILARIOUS! We are at the top of the ship when Kristen looks at her watch and says, "oh no, we have one minute until our parking expires". AHHH. We were on top of a Navy ship with 4 kids and just over a mile away from our car. Kristen has a 4 month old who was hungry and so I volunteered to RUN off the ship and to our car. So picture this: A prego lady with a HUGE belly running alongside the piers with TONS of tourist looking at me like I was some lunatic. And not to far behind me was Kristen with the double stroller and all our crap with 4 boys alongside her!! Who in their right mind goes downtown with 4 boys all by themselves? We both had awesome stories to tell about people giving us crazy looks and funny comments. I am proud to say we did NOT get a ticket and I somehow managed to run a mile in just over 10 minutes with a big belly!