Sea World

After the great day we had at Disneyland we were super excited to get up the next morning and go to Sea World. Brody was super excited to see the whales and dolphins.

The first place we hit was the arctic adventure (i think) its a room that moves and everything, but with our little kids they make you watch the movie in the room with no movement (lame...) and then you go through this whole exhibit as if you landed on the arctic with your helicopter. There is a wall of ice to touch, polar bears, and walruses (I don't know if that is the proper way to say there were more than one walrus). Both boys stood as close to the glass as they could and one walrus came up so close. Ryder just pointed and yelled out he was so excited.

As with any time I have ever been to a major park there is always something under construction, so even though we couldn't go feed dolphins or get close to them, we did see a number of exhibits. When we through and saw the sharks I kept asking Brody if he wanted to swim with them and he VERY adamently would say, "No!" I really liked watching the penguins swimming and both the kids seemed really entertained by it all.

We carefully mapped out what shows we were going to see and when. It was actually pretty hot and we knew that none of us were going to last very long so we needed to prioritize! We went to the Shamu show first. We enjoyed it, but it definitely wasn't as good of a show as it used to be. Ever since that accident last year, they don't let the trainers get in the water. If you have never been before, you'll still like it, but its not the same as it was.

After Shamu we cruised around the park to kill a little bit of time before we went to watch the dolphin show. The boys LOVED that! It was super entertaining with stunts from the trainers diving off all crazy, the dolphins, and even some birds were part of the fun.

By this time it was only around 1 or 2 in the afternoon, but we were so tired and hot! There was no way we were going to be able to stick around much longer. We decided on the otter/seal show. I don't think I have ever seen it before. Its always been one that we decided to forego to see something else, and boy, have we missed out! It was our FAVORITE show of the day! It was so cute and funny. Even before the show started there was this funny little act going on to keep the audience entertained and it was half of the fun.

It was another great day for us. Our kids got a little tired and cranky this day, but overall so good and so so so much fun!