Trip to San Diego: Sea World

The next morning it was raining.  We were scheduled to go to Sea World that day, and worried the rain would ruin it.  We didn't have enough time on our trip to postpone going, so we packed up and went anyway.  It wasn't raining hard, just a weird misty rain.  But it turned out that it was a perfect day to go to Sea World.  The place was practically deserted.  We didn't have to wait in line for anything.  The only thing that was cancelled because of the weather was the animal show. Sophie loved seeing all the animals.

There was a cool tunnel that the sharks swam above.  I told Sophie she better hold her breath before going in, so she did.  Isaac saw her partway through and told her she didn't really have to hold her breath.

Sophie was able to feed the dolphins a piece of ice (but she missed its mouth).  She was too small to reach it and pet it though.

Sophie was scared to touch the stingrays.  She did a couple times and laughed, but most of the time I think she was scared she was going to fall in the pool.

The sun came out just in time for us to go to the Shamu Show.  We sat in the perfect seats for this show.  We were at the top of the "splash zone", but didn't get wet at all.  One section got plastered by their whale, but we were perfectly between two whales and didn't get wet.  We really enjoyed this show, although it was really environmentally cheesy.

Right after the Shamu Show both Sophie and Aspen fell asleep in the stroller.  (That alone was worth buying the double stroller.)  So Isaac and I got to look around by ourselves for a while.

There were also some really cool plants all over Sea World and San Diego.  Isaac liked the ones that looked like dragons/birds.  I thought the Dr. Seuss looking tree with pink or white puff balls were the best.

We also visited the Sesame Street kiddie area.  Sophie loved going on the two rides that were open and did them over and over.  We were then able to meet Elmo and Zoe (because there were only three kids in line).  I thought Sophie might be scared of them, but it was cute to watch her run up and give Elmo a hug.

We finished the day out at the Arctic Exhibit, which was really cool. Overall it was a really great day at Sea World.