After the show, we headed to the where they keep & feed the sea lions. For some reason in the past, we had always missed this part. This year we were delighted to see a mama sea lion with her baby cubs.
After this last show, we headed to the water park. Majority of our time was spent jumping in the wave pool. Even Alex enjoyed this a little more this year. I tried, in vain, to get Riley to go down one big slide. We stood in line and carried our tubes all the way to the top. But as it became time to get on the ride, Riley freaked out. The life guard came over and told me that I could not make him go down the ride. I tried to explain to this young kid, who obviously does not have any kids, that in 5 feet he will be just fine and having lots of fun. He didn't seem to care. So Riley and I deposited our tubes at the top, and walked the walk of shame all the way to the bottom. Not to mention the fact that we burned our feet all the way down because now we were completely dry and that concrete was hot!
After our adventure in the water park, we decided it was time to EAT! But instead we decided to feed the dolphins and head to a real restaurant to eat a late lunch/early dinner.
Finally it was time to go home, but not without one family picture.
We made two souvenir purchases while we were at Sea World. The first was a pair of matching Shamu pajamas for the kids. Alex's were pink & Riley's were blue. Then Riley only asked for one thing while there and that was a stuffed Shamu`. Riley has always been so good about that kind of thing. He does not ask for much. In fact he asked on Tuesday and Nana told him if he still wanted it on Friday, then he could have one. Sure enough as were leaving, he turned and said, "What about the Shamu?" So of course, he & Alex had to have matching stuffed Shamus as well.
A busy trip, but two very happy kids!
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