California Trip Day 4 Sea World

Tuesday morning we woke up very excited for Sea World. We also woke up to yet another home cooked breakfast made for us by Dan Day. Thank you so much Day family for letting us stay at your Day's Inn. We really appreciated your hospitality. We tried to get an early start so that we could be to Sea World right at 10 when it was opening.

I love this picture of Logan and Ethan. They just look like the best of buds.

Lauren and Hailey all dressed up matchy matchy once again. Luckily both the boys and the girls already happened to have these matching shirts.
BFF

When we first got in the gate, Shamu was there waiting for us.

I have no idea who this otter guy was but it was a good photo op.

The first thing we did was head to the under water observatory. We were able to sit and watch these dolphins swimming around under the water. It was so neat to just watch their bodies move.

We then headed up and over to where the killer whales are kept. The kids were so excited to see Shamu. There was even a baby one swimming around with its mom. They are side by side in this picture, so it is kind of hard to tell.

We walked over this bridge thing that lead you to the stadium where they do the Shamu show. They just happened to be doing some training exercises with the whales to get ready for the show. It was the coolest thing to sit and watch. There was only two other people there watching so it totally felt like we were getting our own private Shamu show. We sat there watching for almost an hour.

We passed another fun dolphin pool and sat and watched them jump for awhile. It was so amazing to me to watch them jump. It would look like they didn't have enough room and were going to run into the rock wall, but when they jumped it almost looked like they were moving backwards. They are such beautiful animals. They are building a new dolphin stadium so they didn't have a dolphin show going on when we were there. I was kind of bummed about that.

Next we hurried over the the Sea Lions Live show. I thought it was really fun, but the kids kind of got bored with it. It was definitely more of an older kid/adult show. The humor was a little over their heads and it went on a little long.
My favorite part of the show...the walrus!

Beautiful Girls!!

Logan is not a big fan of having his picture taken, but this day he was all for it so here are a couple cute shots of him along the way.

After the show it was off to see the sharks. They had all kids of different sharks. The coolest part was the end when you walk through this tunnel and the sharks are swimming all around you. The biggest sharks were in this tank too which added to the excitement.

Getting ready for the Shamu show. We sat in the soak zone, but not very close. A little bit wet was enough for us. These animals are so amazing and beautiful. It is so cool to just see the way their bodies move and see how all their muscles work together. Here are a bunch of pictures from the show. It was crazy to hear that just a week after we were here that one of the trainers at the Florida Sea World was killed by one of the whales.

Next we hurried over to ride the Journey to Atlantis ride. Up first were the girls and the boys waited and watched. Mindy and I are definitely the braver ones in both our relationships. Lauren and Hailey both loved the ride as well.

Tyler and Logan waiting in line for their turn.
I LOVE this picture!!

So I was given strict instructions as to how to take the picture of them when they were coming down the drop off. I had practiced to make sure I had it down good. Well the line was really long and the girls really needed to go to the bathroom so I hurried and ran to take them to the bathroom. We ran back as fast as we could and found that the boys were on the ride already heading up to the drop off. I hurried and grabbed the camera and got it ready, except I forgot one thing in the important list of instructions, of which I don't remember what it was, but because of it my pictures of them coming down, were not very good, and because of that, I got in trouble. Ooops, I guess we will just have to go back there again some day so we can try again.

This picture cracks me up. I bet you can't guess who didn't like the ride.

The last place we got to visit was the arctic exhibit. We saw the polar bears, the beluga whales, and the walruses. The set up for this exhibit was really cool.

On our way out of the park, Tyler took this cool picture of all the flags.

We had an awesome day at Sea World, and I definitely want to go back there some day. Next time though I think we need two days to make sure we get to see everything. We were so tired after the two long days we were excited to drive back to Anaheim and get a good night sleep.