Sea World

Can you believe we missed it? Yesterday was "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" And not a single word of Pirate came out of my mouth and I know Riley would have really enjoyed that. Maybe next year we will remember.

Today was our day to go to Sea World. Started with breakfast at Chick-Fil-A and everyone enjoyed their meals.

We arrived at Sea World right before 0900 and as always their parking was pretty strange. We weren't even parking in the lined areas, it was where you would normally drive, so I don't know what they were doing.

They had the back gate open so we were able to go in there and not have to walk all the way to the main entrance. But then I went around to the Pass Office to finally get Nikki a pass, she use to get in on her Universal Employee Pass and this is the first time we have been with them since she hasn't worked at Universal.

Started by getting our picture taken, as always.


Then we let Riley choose where he wanted to go on the map, can you believe he picked the Dolphin area which is where we always start. Although we did stop and feed the Rays first because we walked right by them.

Watching Daddy feed the rays, I couldn't get any good pictures of that, needed a polarizer and didn't have on with me.


We stopped at the Manatee exhibit and watch them. Dan, Riley and I went to the underwater viewing area and watched from there also. It is a really long walk to do that and then we stopped to let Riley look at the Manatee sculpture, he wasn't to sure about that.


Wasn't to very happy to have to get back in the stroller.


Looking at the penguins.



Then it was off to Pacific Point Preserve, better known as the seal area. There were a bunch of baby seals all born at the end of June, beginning of July so they are fairly young. They didn't do much but eat and nuzzle their moms.


As always lots of birds in the area and when the food would come out they were right there hoping to steal a fish.


Riley liked it when Grampa would walk him into the low hanging branches of the trees.

We were in one of the gift shops and this is what Riley saw over his shoulder.

Walked through the horse barn, always impressive to see the Clydesdales. Then we stopped by the Budweiser Pavilion and Dan tried the new American Ale, he said it didn't taste bad but had an aftertaste he didn't like.

This is right outside the Pavilion and it always looks so nice.


Riley playing the steel drums, he really enjoyed that.


This is on the ship in the kids area and he was shooting the water at Daddy, couldn't reach him but still thought it was pretty funny.



Kaleigh finally awake and facing forward so she can see everything.


Our last stopped was at the Arctic and saw all the animals there. The belugas were pretty active today, they had a bouy they were playing with and they were having a good time.

By this time we were all pretty hot and tired so we headed out. Picked up our picture and we were off to the car.

Had lunch at Steak n Shake, my first time there. It was very good, I especially like their skinny, little, crispy french fries.

We dropped Andy and the kids off and it was home for us to rest away the day.