A Whale Of A Tale

A couple weeks ago we did something we’ve been looking forward to doing for a long time.  We went to Sea World!  With Josiah being the cautious type, we’ve put it off until we were pretty sure he’d enjoy himself fully, and boy did he ever!  It was a huge success with both of the boys.

First, we headed to the otter, seal, and walrus show:

Josiah was mesmerized, but Elijah was a ham:

Then, we were off to the Pet show, my personal favorite.  The building was dark and I didn’t want to flash my camera, so I didn’t get any pictures.  It’s just as well because I was too mesmerized by the cool animal tricks to be distracted by picture taking.

Next was the dolphin viewing.  I could stay there forever if it wasn’t for my rambunctious kids and small crowd that would like to have their chance to see.

I think this dolphin is smiling and winking at Josiah to ask him to come and play!

And some aquarium exhibits:

They both look electric, don’t they?

Then we had some free time to spend in the kids area.  Josiah could have spent the whole day here.  We were blown away that he wanted to ride every ride we showed him.  I didn’t even suggest two of the rides that seemed a little old for him, but I thought he was brave to do a few that even made me, someone who loves rides, a little dizzy.  He also loved the three (?) story rope jungle gym!

I don’t know why I love this picture, but it just reminds me of what a good daddy Jacob is.

Our little runner at the splash pad:I love when Elijah laughs at Josiah’s antics!

Ummm…yep.  He’s ours.

We ended the day with the whale show.  We were a little disappointed because we’d all looked forward to it all day and Josiah kept asking about it, but now that the trainers can’t swim with the whales and the show just isn’t the same.  Regardless, they are impressive creatures!

Mmmm…I so love them!

Since going, Josiah has loved the fact that there are killer whales painted on the nursery walls at church.  I guess we’ll have to go back.

Well, we were gullible and got the year passes for each of us.  Hopefully we’ll put them to some use.  Just so you know, in our efforts to save some money, we packed lunches.  I had called ahead to be sure home packed lunches were allowed because I had heard they were, but they weren’t!  Due to all the timing of the shows, we never made it back to the car to eat and we were too stubborn to buy lunch :)  Good thing I brought lots of snacks!  Next time we’ll know.