San Diego: Day Four {Sea World}

Since I have SO many pictures for day 4, I'll break it up a bit.

Here we are at SEA WORLD!! Yeah, SEA WORLD!

We decided last minute to go, because we thought we'd regret it if we didn't. We were SO glad we decided to go! It was amazing!! We couldn't stop thinking about how Jax would LOVE it though. I'm trying to beg andy to let us go back sometime again this year!! progress on that- not lookin very good. Someday, we'll be that family that gets to go on awesome vacations like this every year. But i guess since we don't very often at all, this is a big big deal to us & we appreciate it even  more!

 

my fave:probably this silly walrus.

andy's fave: the white beluga whales.

 

andrew looks like he's wearing a retainer, and i look like i'm from some place in asia. yeah, we don't photograph so well, do we?

i loved this bird. this bird did not have the same feelings for me.  he liked to be close to the commotion of the people feeding the seals, but didn't want any attention drawn to himself. every time i'd inch a little closer, he would slowly inch away from me. is it alarming that i wasn't scared of a bird like this? i mean, look at that beak. that bird could have done some serious damage. but i thought he was so pretty sitting there like that, making his wings all fluffy and wispy, like an old mans beard.

 

this sea lion show was delightful.

and quite entertaining from start to finish.

 

jax loves these pictures.

aw, I wish he could have been there!

these flamingos made me happy.

piranhas. (spellling?) these were SO scary. they would just sit there like that in the tank, looking like they were waiting to attack. FREA-KY.

a cool tree which i guess is commonplace in southern california. hey, i like trees ok?

by far andy's favorite part. he loves sharks, just ask him.

actually you know who really does love sharks? jaxon. he's obsessed. he loves to sit and stare at this picture and say "mean mouth". I don't know how he'd react in real life if he saw this. It would be fun to find out though.

ahh, more of these lovelies.

yuck. i can still remember their slimy skin. i touched it once, just to say i had touched a stingray.

ok , here's a funny story: if you ever get the chance ,  ask andy how to say this word below.

he'll get so mad. it's so funny too.

he says it all wrong. he says "shaw-mu"

i'm so mean and horrible , i know!!

now THIS was exciting! We had only seen this stuff in pictures.

we were in the "splash zone", but luckily we did not get wet. at all. which was good because i was NOT going to put my camera away.  not during a time like this.

shamu show!

crazy stuff.

and again, i could not stop thinking of jaxon.

 

Sea world was the greatest.

but we had to leave a little early so we could make it to the lighthouse by sunset...