Sea World!

A few weeks ago, we took a little trip with my parents to Sea World in San Antonio. It was a day full of sun, shows, and sweating. We had a great time. We arrived in the early afternoon, just in time for the dolphin and beluga whale show. It was really great. Josh just loves dolphins, and kept saying "wow" when they would jump or swim by.

There was a lot to see. We stopped by the shark and ray aquarium and watched the rays at feeding time. The trainers get right in the tank with them for feedings...the rays, not the sharks. We also made it to the dolphin pool in time to feed them. The idea was to have the kids do it, but they were happy to let their daddy hold the stinky fish for the dolphins. They loved seeing the dolphins so close. Carly was fascinated by their zipper like teeth. There was no way she was putting her hand over the water.

We also stood in the line for 45 minutes with the two bigger kids to ride the log ride. Carly rode with Papa and Josh rode with Mommy and Daddy, while Jack watched from the sidelines with Mama.

Jarod had a fun taking Carly on her first roller coaster. She had the best time on the "whale train". Jarod told her to put her hands up the whole way, before the ride started...he was only able to convince her the first time around the loop. Of course, when the ride was over, she was begging to do it again.

Can you spot Jarod's head??

Doesn't she look like she's having fun??!!

While Jarod and Carly rode the roller coaster, I introduced Josh to fishing for overpriced stuffed animals. He loved it. I was pretty excited about our cheap stuffed frog.

We also really enjoyed the sea lion show. They had sea lions, an otter, and a walrus. I thought the best trick was having the giant walrus do sit ups.

After the sea lion show we made our way over to the Shamu pavilion. We were pretty excited to see what the killer whales could do. After half an hour of sitting in the hot stale air, the show started. It was disappointing to say the least. There were four whales, and unfortunately, the trainers couldn't get them to do anything they were supposed to. They kept taking them into the holding tanks, then bringing them back out...and they didn't get anything out of them for the entire show. Talk about an anticlimactic end to our day.

Josh was so tuckered out that he fell asleep just about as soon as we put him in the stroller after the Shamu show.
Yea for Sea World!!