Sea World

Our trip to Sea World was a lot of fun. Ryan really liked looking at all of the fish and other sea animals. We had a good time taking him around to all of the different exhibits and things. Here is the third installment of our trip to California. Pictures of the beach trip to follow.
all of us in front of the dolphins
an otter
flamingos
Mommy picks up a star fish to show Ryan. He didn't really want to touch it.
Posing in front of the tide pool.
Daddy at the tide pools
Reaching in for the sea animals.

Turtle inside the aquarium at the tide pool exhibit


a penguin swimming outside at the Penguin encounter
Mommy and Ryan watching the penguins
A penguin did a nice belly flop for us. Ryan loved that and shrieked with laughter when he saw him jump in. I'm amazed I caught such a great picture of him.
Ryan kept telling the penguins, "I see you"! It was hilarious.
more penguins swimming.



This is the seal and sea lion exhibit. It was feeding time so Colin bought some fish to feed the seals. It was really cool. One thing they told him when he bought the fish was to watch out for the birds.
This seal got 4 out of the 5 fish. The fifth was eaten by a scavenger seagull. It just about knocked us over swooping in to get the fish right out of Colin's hand.

hungry seals and sea lions


Ryan reaching out for a dolphin with the help of Daddy.
Dolphins
Mommy and Ryan watching the dolphins
more dolphins
The only show we did was Shamu, since it's the best. It was a lot of fun to see Shamu doing all of his big flips and splashes. And, the show was short enough to keep Ryan's attention- well, almost. He started saying, "shamu" half way through the show and the tourists from overseas behind us were really laughing. the whole family watching the Shamu show
Shamu doing his tricks for the audience
Ryan and Daddy watching the show
one of the trainers surfing on Shamu

Comments

joyous said…
Wow!! That looks like a ton of fun. It sure has changed a lot since I went there as a kid.
7:03 PM, July 24, 2007
Becky J. said…
I love Sea World! Do they still have the Seal and Otter show? That was always our favorite back in the day. Looks like you had a ton of fun! Good luck with the first day of school today!
8:21 AM, July 25, 2007
CollyWolly said…
There is a Sea Lion and Otter show but it's a bit different. They also changed the water ski show to a Cirqe de la Mer show (neither of which we saw).
D track!!! I don't start for another three weeks. Haven't set foot in the school in a month!
8:41 AM, July 25, 2007
The McNews said…
How fun! Once again, Ryan looked like he was an absolute doll. I don't know that Cam would do that good. Is he still talking about it?
1:18 PM, July 25, 2007
Anonymous said…
Those pic's were great. Looked like you all had fun.
11:31 AM, August 01, 2007
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