Tuesday, August 25, 2009

SD Day 4 - Sea World-tacular

Sea World = Awesome! We went back for another day ... so there's even more pictures of Sea World to come. Just like the zoo - we had a blast. Oh boy, do I wish we were back there! I've been trying to so hard to get all of our vacation up here before school started but it looks like it's not quite gonna happen - school starts tomorrow :(.

Well here's another bajillion pictures and there's a couple videos in there too so be on the look out ... none quite as good as tortoises in the mood ...

Anyways .... we had a blast and hopefully you will too looking at the pictures! Enjoy!

The fabulous Shamu

The Cirque De Soleil show:











Petting manarays











Is this not the funniest picture you've seen of a dolphin ... sneakily and stealthily approaching















the sea lions were absolutely hilarious - you could feed them and boy did they know if you had food ... and it's like they would yell/beg you to give the fish to them - just watch this feeding frenzy and you'll understand ... p.s. it's loud


The shark exhibit:
Sorry the pics are dark ... it was dark in there and hard to get a good pic so look closely/where's waldo ... well in this case a shark (but I guess the shark's name could be Waldo)















For our expensive anniversary meal we had 'Dinner with Shamu' - buffet right next to one of their tanks and Shamu did tricks for us and such while we ate ... it was pretty cool






































Yes, Matt is actually touching Shamu!! It was probably one of the coolest things of our whole trip ... I think. We kinda weren't supposed to be there but long story short ... we ended up in Shamu stadium when it was 'closed' and a couple of the whales were in the tank. Well we were just standing there watching them when this one came over to us and just sat there. It was so neat - it was like he/she was lonely and liked us. The whale was making noises like it talking to us and just hanging out with us. The whale literally stayed there for 10/15 minutes. It was so cute and amazing. And...how many people can say they've touched a killer whale in their lifetime?




1 comment:

Adventures in Healing said...

I would like to point out that it appears that had anyone else been 'accidentally' there when they weren't supposed to then they could not have petted Shamu...because they could not have reached!