Christmas Morning and Sea World

Christmas morning the kids got up and found that Santa had found us at the hotel and had left a few small gifts along with some tickets to all the different parks. The kids each got a pair of jammies and a new movie. They were super excited. Our first visit was going to be at Sea World. After traveling 5 more hours from Teri's house, it was going to be nice walking around for a while.

Hunter was really excited to get his new Lightning McQueen slippers and Alvin and the Chipmunks movie!

Sea World was a lot of fun. We got to see a lot of really good shows and a lot of different kinds of animals. We got there early, and it soon became really busy. There were a ton of people there. The weather was really nice. It warmed up a lot. It was a nice change from our weather at home. Hunter was such a nut. He loved seeing all the different animals.

We were walking between to see a show and ended up running into the flamingo parade. They were everywhere. Brian snapped this picture of Hunter as they passed by.

The first show that we visited was the Animal Tails show. It was a variety act that had lots of different kinds of animals including dogs, cats, pigs, and all kinds of birds. It was fun seeing these animals do tricks that you wouldn't expect them to be able to do. It was really cute, but my favorite part was watching Autumn's face ans she grinned from ear to ear. She is such animal person, so I knew she would enjoy this show particularly.

We decided to play it safe during the Shamu show and sit high above the splash zone. It was a good thing because I think the people that were sitting in our original seats got soaked. I could not believe how high theses whales could jump. They did these amazing flips in the air where their whole body sailed out of the water.

The Dolphin show was really neat. This time I sat with Brian and Hunter in the soak zone, knowing that they didn't splash as high. Autumn was terrified that she would get wet so she sat with Brian's parents up higher. We had great seats and never got wet. The dolphin tricks were amazing. with people ridding on them and them doing lots of flips. They also had a lot of people dressed in bright costumes doing amazing dives. I remembered that when I was young, I wanted to work with the dolphins. Who knows, maybe Autumn will be the one to work with animals.

The last show of the day was the Christmas showing of the the silly sea lions. It was a lot of fun. Just for Autumn, I got seats one row above the soak zone. She was very excited when she walked up the row to find that were were not in the soak zone.

It was an amazing day. The kids did really good. We all had a lot of fun. It will be a Christmas the kids won't soon forget.