I am really not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but Sea World was no that great for us. We did have fun, but it wasn't all we dreamed it up to be for the kids. Maybe it was just that every little thing that could go wrong did go wrong that day. First we slept in way later than we had planned, and then we gave Marshall and Aimee the wrong tickets and had a 25 minute detour to go back and switch those. Then about when we got there the tire on our stroller was flat, and we realized that neither one of us grabbed extra diapers for poor Brody (that left us with just two for the entire day...ummm not so good). Colby was not that ecstatic about the whole sea animal thing...so it was fun, but kind of a ho hum expensive day! But here were some of the highlights.
The dolphin show was my favorite. I can't believe how high those things jump.
This is what we did all day, sit is hot stadium seats, until the shows started. We kept sitting in the splash zone with our ponchos hoping to get soaked and we never got very wet! Bummer.
Can't go to Sea World without seeing Shamu! It was pretty cool, but not as good as the Dolphins.
Colbs and I did have fun touching the star fish in the super cold water! You even got to pick them up. I thought that was pretty cool.
These pictures don't do it justice, but the shark exhibit was really cool. The sharks were literally swimming all around us, as we rode on a moving platform enclosed in a tube of glass. Pretty cool.
Feeding the Sea Lions was really fun! Ewww! Those little fish are so icky, but I made Colby pick them up. They were really aggressive little boogers though, barking at us wildly, I know why they have the feeding tubes. Fingers would be missing.
Brods really loved watching them bark and swim around.
We had to find a place for Brody to get down and move his poor little legs. He was so tired of being cooped up in the stroller, and while it was I am sure pretty germy, this little garden area was shady and cool and let him stretch his little legs. What did he do? Crawled right to the mulch and played with it the whole time.
While resting in the shade, we really needed some serious hydration. Colby had to have a Souvenir cup and $22 later we had two drinks. Oh yeah, $22 for two drinks. Not to mention Colby drank that entire ginormongous 95 oz of Pepsi, leaving him with a serious caffeine fix for the rest of the trip! Thanks Sea World!
There were some really beautiful flowers in the little garden.
Ever since Disneyland when Colby rode splash mountain and all the other roller coasters he has loved amusement rides, so Matt took him on the ride Journey to Atlantis. I was lucky enough to spot them and catch them as they came down the FIRST drop. Colby was super happy and loved it until they went back up and did several more drops and loops, he then got scared and wanted off the ride. So I a was a little bummed I didn't get to take him on it again, but he was a brave boy!
All in all, it was pretty fun, we just had terrible luck that day. You know how it goes, you just expect the ridiculously priced food and junky souvenirs! We did manage to make it with just the two diapers for Brody. We changed him right before dinner, our last quick meal before we left the park. Well we thought we made it until we had to wait 40min for $30 pizza, and then just as we were walking out of the park, we caught a whiff of the glorious odor of baby poo. Just as we had feared. I grabbed napkins from the restaurant to fashion some sort of diaper for our 1.5 hour trip back to the beach house. Just as we were about to walk through the gates, I saw a lady that had a child about the same age, and through the kindness of a stranger I was able to have a fresh diaper for Brods! So what could have been a nightmare trip turned out okay and we had a little fun too!
