We loved SeaWorld!!

The pictures and there are alot of them really say it all...We did have a great day at Sea World. We made sure to catch the Shamu show called Believe-excellent show and Halle's favorite event of the entire day! I would have to agree with Halle that is was unreal and my favorite part, but we just loved it all....amazing things happen at that park everyday. It was hard to capture very many photos without missing the show entirely. I tried to capture the awe and amazement we all felt during the show.

Daddy bought Halle a shamu cup filled with lemonade after much pleading and begging. They came back to our seats and she was beaming-you would have thought he bought her the moon. The cup cost *choke*gasp*choke $11.50 choke*gasp*!

If you click on this picture than you will see that there is a girl who came bursting out of the water on Shamu's nose....and she looked graceful.


This was the dolphin show and I loved it as well. They are very smart animals and they can jump!


The kids loved looking into the various exhibits to see the marine life- and alot of my pictures consist of the back of their heads talking about what they are discovering inside the tanks.







We ended up buying both of the kids one item because Halle had some birthday money to spend and they bought a stuffed Shamu and had a ball swimming them around the park and pretending that Halle's Shamu since it was slightly bigger was Caleb's whales mommy. So much fun!






The story of the day was after buying the whales from the gift shop we ran into a man who worked there and he told us that if you go to the Killer Whale underwater viewing area and hold up the stuffed whale then the whale might stop and look at it or come over to see it because they recognize that it has markings and they will often come to see what it is. Halle immediately had to try this...Here she is holding her newly purchased treasure against the glass. The whale was swimming circles and scratching her back on the rock at the bottom of the tank. In just a few minutes the whale did exactly as he had said and came right next to the stuffed whale and stopped there at eye level with Halle and her pet whale and stared at it for 60 seconds-a long time! Halle and all of us were soooo excited to get that close to a Killer Whale. I tried to snap a few photos. If you look close you can see the whales eye. WOW! Another girl said that the reason the whale had done this was because they have maternal instincts and come to see if the stuffed whale is a baby who may need some help and is swimming alone. Who knows for sure-but it certainly was fun to see it happen right before our eyes!






A cute shot of Caleb while Halle is watching the dolphins....

Halle was dying to see the flamingo simply because they are pink-her favorite color. They are that color because they eat so many shrimp. I learned something new...:)


The only picture that had me in it- but the lady who took it cut off the manatees heads on the statues behind us. Heidi-I said hello to your favorites for you...

The shark tank exhibit was a little terrifying as you literally go through a tunnel with hundreds of sharks above your head and on the sides of the tunnel behind a glass tank!


Caleb fell asleep immediately upon getting into the car grasping his stuffed whale. We had stayed at the park until they closed at 6pm-that was about 4 hours after his naptime and 4 hours longer than we had thought we would leave but it was worth it and a great time!