Today we went to SeaWorld. It was amazing! I was expecting something similar to Marineland, but bigger. This doesn't compare. It had so much more, and everything was interactive. We went to the dolphin show which was great, Connor didn't seem interested at first, we had to distract him until the show started. Once he saw the dolphins though, he couldn't tear his eyes away. 
Just outside of the Dolphin stadium is the Seal and Sea Lion enclosure. They have little baskets of fish that you can buy to feed to the Seals and Sea Lions, we bought one (of course) and fed one of the seals a fish. 
Before we could feed anymore one of the many seagulls hanging around literally attacked Sherri and took the fish right out of her hand. The gull actually dropped one of the fish in the container, so we got to feed one more Seal before we left. (you can see the fish at the top left of the picture) This was very annoying at the time, but became quite funny looking back. We arrived at SeaWorld fairly late because it was open till 10:00 so we slept in, but they only had one more show with the Killer Whales so we went to that next. By the time we got there it was Connor's nap time but there was too much going on for him to sleep so he was a bit cranky and even the giant killer whales couldn't hold his focus for the whole show. It was a great show though. 
Shamu got up on the platform in the top picture and would flick his tail and spin around on the platform which surprised both of us. He also did jumps and threw handlers, and let them ride him around the pool and all that stuff. The show was a bit artsy-fartsy all about believing in yourself (it was called "believe") but the tricks were great. We went in to the arctic animals pavilion next. They had Walruses, and beluga whales, and penguins and all kinds of animals, and they were all right up close to the glass (except the polar bear - he was laying down at the back of his enclosure) the Walruses especially were swimming right up to the glass, even touching it as they swam by.
Connor was very impressed by the Walrus, he stood there for a few minutes watching him swim by. They had Manatees and a giant Shark aquarium with an underwater tunnel surrounded by glass to see the sharks swim by. (the curved glass messed up the pictures) They had flamingos and penguins out that you could feed, and a couple of touch pools with rays and fish to touch. By far, the best thing we did at SeaWorld was next. We were wandering around to see everything and we came to the dolphin enclosure, it was getting late in the day and they were actually just announcing that they were going to close up in the next 15 min. 
so we went in having no idea that you could buy fish here as well to feed the dolphins, and they were close enough for you to touch them! Even if you didn't have fish, they would swim around the edges letting people pet them and pat them on the head until the trainers there would give commands for some of the tricks, a lot of people got really wet. We got this part on video showing Connor and Sherri feeding the dolphins. I didn't have any fish but a couple of them came right 
up to me and let me pet them. (that's my hand in the picture) There had to be 10-15 dolphins in here swimming around, jumping and splashing people, it was unbelievable. Overall it was another great day. Now we start the drive home. We'd love to stay longer, we're just having too much fun, but, tomorrow we head East toward home with a small detour at our last destination - the Grand Canyon.
Before we could feed anymore one of the many seagulls hanging around literally attacked Sherri and took the fish right out of her hand. The gull actually dropped one of the fish in the container, so we got to feed one more Seal before we left. (you can see the fish at the top left of the picture) This was very annoying at the time, but became quite funny looking back. We arrived at SeaWorld fairly late because it was open till 10:00 so we slept in, but they only had one more show with the Killer Whales so we went to that next. By the time we got there it was Connor's nap time but there was too much going on for him to sleep so he was a bit cranky and even the giant killer whales couldn't hold his focus for the whole show. It was a great show though. 
Shamu got up on the platform in the top picture and would flick his tail and spin around on the platform which surprised both of us. He also did jumps and threw handlers, and let them ride him around the pool and all that stuff. The show was a bit artsy-fartsy all about believing in yourself (it was called "believe") but the tricks were great. We went in to the arctic animals pavilion next. They had Walruses, and beluga whales, and penguins and all kinds of animals, and they were all right up close to the glass (except the polar bear - he was laying down at the back of his enclosure) the Walruses especially were swimming right up to the glass, even touching it as they swam by.
Connor was very impressed by the Walrus, he stood there for a few minutes watching him swim by. They had Manatees and a giant Shark aquarium with an underwater tunnel surrounded by glass to see the sharks swim by. (the curved glass messed up the pictures) They had flamingos and penguins out that you could feed, and a couple of touch pools with rays and fish to touch. By far, the best thing we did at SeaWorld was next. We were wandering around to see everything and we came to the dolphin enclosure, it was getting late in the day and they were actually just announcing that they were going to close up in the next 15 min. 
so we went in having no idea that you could buy fish here as well to feed the dolphins, and they were close enough for you to touch them! Even if you didn't have fish, they would swim around the edges letting people pet them and pat them on the head until the trainers there would give commands for some of the tricks, a lot of people got really wet. We got this part on video showing Connor and Sherri feeding the dolphins. I didn't have any fish but a couple of them came right 
up to me and let me pet them. (that's my hand in the picture) There had to be 10-15 dolphins in here swimming around, jumping and splashing people, it was unbelievable. Overall it was another great day. Now we start the drive home. We'd love to stay longer, we're just having too much fun, but, tomorrow we head East toward home with a small detour at our last destination - the Grand Canyon.
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Wow Cool. I want to go to Sea World. Although I want to do it all. Sarah wont let me go to Marine land. She thinks it's boring, but where else can I see whales, where indeed, apparently SEA WORLD yippee!!
The Bruce!
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