{"id":784162,"date":"2011-09-20T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=784162"},"modified":"2011-09-20T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T01:01:10","slug":"six-flags-discovery-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2011\/09\/20\/six-flags-discovery-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Flags Discovery Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 90 minutes from us is a large theme park; the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. \u00a0They have a wonderful incentive for area children within 120 miles. \u00a0If they log 40 hours reading within a certain timeframe, the child receives a ticket to the theme park. \u00a0Many schools participate, and the teachers get tickets as well.<\/p>\n

Well, both of the boys participated and received a ticket. \u00a0As their teacher, I received one as well. \u00a0In addition to that, they offered the child’s pricing for David as a special incentive. \u00a0What easily could have been a $200 for the four of us and parking, we ended up spending only $50. \u00a0We also packed a sack lunch, and although we had to eat it at the car, we saved some money that way too.<\/p>\n

It was about three months after the reading challenge finished that we received the tickets. \u00a0The boys had forgotten about it, so we surprised them one day with a special road trip….<\/p>\n

Half of the property is rides, and half is animals, mostly aquatic…<\/p>\n

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I realized I have never seen a real dolphin up close before…
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<\/a>Waiting for the sea lion show to begin…
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<\/a>Even though the sea lions were very entertaining, the little one that stole our heart was a sea otter the “stole” the pirates key…
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<\/a>The orca whale show…
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We rode plenty of rides, and enjoyed watching the animals. \u00a0It was a nice, full day…<\/p>\n

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About 90 minutes from us is a large theme park; the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. \u00a0They have a wonderful incentive for area children within 120 miles. \u00a0If they log 40 hours reading within a certain timeframe, the child receives a ticket to the theme park. \u00a0Many schools participate, and the teachers get tickets as well. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784175,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784162\/revisions\/784175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}