"Duck when Shamu Dives!"
This was the text message I got from my mother when I 
told her that we were going to Sea World last Friday. She remembers the last few times that we went to Sea World (when I was very young) -- we sat in the "soak zone" for both Shamu and the seal and walrus show. It's called the "soak zone" for a reason. :)
Samantha, on the other hand, is very wary of getting wet. So we sat waaaaaay far away from the splashing Shamu and the dolphins. The shows were good, although they seemed really short (30 minutes each). Sam has a great story book about baby Honu the Sea Turtle, so we were able to relate the animals to their Hawaiian names in the book. She was much more excited about the eels and other creatures when she recognized them from the book. We looked for the sea turtles (there was one on the map) but we couldn't find them. Instead we went to see the starfish in a
little pond, where you could take them out of the water and touch them. Sam actually touched the starfish, especially after Dada told her that it felt scratchy like BooBoo's tongue. (BooBoo is the family cat.)
Then we went and fed the bat rays (sort of like manta rays). Sam wasn't willing to put her hands in the water, but she wanted to drop the little fish in for them to eat, which we thought was very brave. The rays kept splashing us with their fins -- either they wanted us to know they were there, so we'd feed them, or they were saying thank you. :)
We visited the eels and garibaldi (a bright orange fish that is apparently Jae's favorite), and then the flamingos and ducks. Sam showed me how she can stand on one leg just like the flamingos, and we quacked at the ducks, although they were actually quiet compared to their tall pink neighbors. We also used that opportunity to take the standard kids-at-Thanksgiving photo. :)
The last thing we had to see was the sea otters. Sam liked hearing that Uncle Bryan used to want to have a sea otter as a pet - in the bathtub! Apparently he once wrote a story about flooding the basement so the otters could live there. Good thing he never did it. heh.
told her that we were going to Sea World last Friday. She remembers the last few times that we went to Sea World (when I was very young) -- we sat in the "soak zone" for both Shamu and the seal and walrus show. It's called the "soak zone" for a reason. :)Samantha, on the other hand, is very wary of getting wet. So we sat waaaaaay far away from the splashing Shamu and the dolphins. The shows were good, although they seemed really short (30 minutes each). Sam has a great story book about baby Honu the Sea Turtle, so we were able to relate the animals to their Hawaiian names in the book. She was much more excited about the eels and other creatures when she recognized them from the book. We looked for the sea turtles (there was one on the map) but we couldn't find them. Instead we went to see the starfish in a
little pond, where you could take them out of the water and touch them. Sam actually touched the starfish, especially after Dada told her that it felt scratchy like BooBoo's tongue. (BooBoo is the family cat.)Then we went and fed the bat rays (sort of like manta rays). Sam wasn't willing to put her hands in the water, but she wanted to drop the little fish in for them to eat, which we thought was very brave. The rays kept splashing us with their fins -- either they wanted us to know they were there, so we'd feed them, or they were saying thank you. :)
We visited the eels and garibaldi (a bright orange fish that is apparently Jae's favorite), and then the flamingos and ducks. Sam showed me how she can stand on one leg just like the flamingos, and we quacked at the ducks, although they were actually quiet compared to their tall pink neighbors. We also used that opportunity to take the standard kids-at-Thanksgiving photo. :)
The last thing we had to see was the sea otters. Sam liked hearing that Uncle Bryan used to want to have a sea otter as a pet - in the bathtub! Apparently he once wrote a story about flooding the basement so the otters could live there. Good thing he never did it. heh.
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