As part of Andrew's on-going birthday celebration and thanks to Sea World's generous teacher's thank you (a free year FunPass!) we visited Shamu and his friends.
We planned our visit pretty well around the times of the shows.
We got there about 11 am and went straight to the Shamu show; even before the show started, he could see the killer whales in the warm-up with there trainers and the pointing started. Like when we visited the LA Zoo and Safari Park last summer, he was immediately involved with the action.
After the show, we watched the whales play with their trainers in the back part of the show.
Andrew did not want to leave the whales!
After finally getting the stroller back, we headed to the dolphin show.
At this point the sun came out and it was HOT and Andrew was hungry, but he was still pretty into it. He enjoyed the flying/diving people too.
We ate lunch and attempted to get Andrew to nap by walking around for a full hour (no luck). We watched the otters, saw a few other animals and Travis joined us.
It was a bit too cold to play in the water in Elmo's area, but we did have fun meeting Elmo.
Andrew didn't like the pink guy.
Dave, Travis, and Andrew decided to climb up the rope course. Andrew loved it, but it was hard work for the boys!
Our last show of the day was the Pet Rescue show, which was mommy and Andrew's favorite. He loved pointing out the doggies, kitties, pig, ducks, and oohh over their silly tricks.
The last thing Andrew saw before crashing was the giant sharks in the tunnel.
Andrew finally fell asleep on Dave's shoulder (at 5 pm) and we visited the penguins and baby belugas when he slept in the stroller.
Overall it was a fantastic day and I can't wait to go back (which we get to as many days as we want until 2014!)
