Spring Break - Sea World Style!

Living in Florida and having all of these amazing entertainment choices has been pretty fun.  The only down side is we can't afford most of the fun things - so when they offer amazing deals we jump at the chance!  Sea World has a deal for Florida Residence where you can pay for a day and come back all year for free!  It is pretty sweet!  Shaef LOVES animals (as you can tell from past posts) and LOVES the ocean (as you can tell from past posts) so Sea World was the best of both worlds!  It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun! We can't wait to go back!

The dolphin show was definitely the highlight of the day!  They are amazing animals and it was so fun to see them interact with the trainers and do all sorts of crazy tricks!!

As you can see both of my boys are completely amazed and can't pull their eyes away!

Shaef spent most of the day "riding" on Daddy's shoulders!  He thought it was fun to trade Dad hats!

This picture is taken outside the Arctic Wildlife area.  In here we saw Beluga Whales, a Walrus, and Polar Bears.  Shaef was standing right up next to the glass of the underwater viewing tank for the Beluga Whales and the whale looked straight at him and swam right toward him.  Right when it got to the tank it swam down so it's whole body was just a piece of glass away from Shaef!  He turned and looked at me and said "Mom - it got me!"  It was so funny!  As you can tell by his face...he is still excited!

There were a bunch of tanks with fish in them and at each one Shaef identified some sea animal that he knew. I was amazed at his underwater animal identification skills!

He did not really like this penguin.....he wouldn't even give him a high five!

Shaef loved the seals.  They were making their "barking" noise and he was loving it!

This is the only ride we took him on the whole day...and he was fine with it!

However - we had to make sure that he was riding a dolphin....he was not content until we found a dolphin and he was strapped on.

We were also able to see the Killer Whale Show "Believe".  It was also fun to watch the whales.

This is the best picture of the day - my camera doesn't work as fast as the animals do their tricks so I often caught the splash of the water instead of the actual trick.  There was a baby killer whale born at this Sea World just a few weeks before we got there so we were able to see the HUGE baby!

This is the sign of a successful day!!