Sea World

Well, Sea World was everything the kids thought it would be and MORE! Ian, Macey and Cade abosolutely loved the dolphins! We went an extra step and decided to feed them. Macey wasn't too excited over the concept of having to touch a dead fish, but she did it and was so glad that she did!! They are so sweet and gentle. As some of you know--I have that "list" of things to do--and swimming with the dolphins is on that list!!! I would love to do it!! We spent an hour and 1/2 or more at the dolphin tank--James had to pull us away!!!

Ian and Cade were really impressed with the Shark Encounter. Ian has always loved to watch Discovery Channel or Animal Planet shows about sharks. So this exhibit was really AWESOME to him!! I didn't get a lot of good pics -because the shark section is on a moving escalator and it was hard to get good shots. . .I got a couple though. . .

Macey's favorite part of Sea World was the Shamu Shows. We saw 2 of them. The first show was called Believe, and the second one was a night show called Shamu Rocks. We sat in the "splash zone" during the first show and got absolutely drenched!!! We were all cracking up, trying to make sure my camera stayed dry, laughing at each other, and looked down at Cade and he was screaming and crying!!! He didn't like getting wet by Shamu at all!!! The Believe show was very inspirational--it had such a good story--the general point of the show was that You can Be anything you want to be!! Ian wants nothing more than to be a whale trainer now!!! He talks about it every day. . I told him if he moves to Florida, I am going with him!!! Hee hee!!

The only bad part about our day at Sea World was the heat!!! It was almost 100 degrees and you could really tell. . We drank so much water that we could float a "whale"!! But it was worth it!! We all loved it!! and as everyone at Sea World would say , " We had a WHALE of a day!!"