Day 3- Sea World!

Today we went to Sea World!!  We knew that it was going to be a slow day because sea world isnt really a park that will take the whole day.  But we were excited to go because we had been watching youtube videos on some of the shows they had there and the boys thought they were so fun.

We slept in and then headed to mcdonalds for some healthy breakfast before heading off...haha.  When we got there, we saw a lady who was taking pictures and said that there were people everywhere that had cameras and they would take our picture for free and then we will see the pictures they took and because we are on our Make a Wish trip, we would get a free picture.  So she took a few fun pictures and then we were off for the first show.  When we started walking we saw this ride that did all kinds of flips and turns.  The boys were so excited for that ride!  They wanted to ride it so bad.  But we had to disappoint them and tell them that they were not going to ride it.  Jacob had his feeding pack and he could not take that on the ride.  Plus I am pretty sure Tyler was too short for it.

The first show we went to was the shamu show called One Earth.  It was amazing!!  They had these handicapped rows where one wheelchair and one person could go. So Tom said he would sit with Jacob while Tyler and I sat close by.  Tyler wanted to sit in the soak zone so we did.  Unfortunately we did not get wet.  But the boys loved the show!  And shamu was amazing to see.  Those whales are huge.  I can not believe those trainers got them to do all they trained them to do. They were perfect every time.

The next show we went to was the seamore and clyde show.  This one was awesome.  It was with the sea lions.  Before the show started they had this mime that was so funny.  I could watch the whole entire show of just him.  He was making fun of people as they walk by and doing funny things.  The funniest thing we saw him do was, one part he was ushering people to their seats.  Well he took this group of like 3 ladies and kept telling them to keep walking.  He walked right outside the door and they walked out not knowing what they were doing.  It was so funny!!  The show started and instantly started off good.  It was so cool seeing the sea lions.  They were much bigger than I thought they were.  Well then things just started happening.  One guy they had from the audience was doing everything wrong and they had to stop the show to tell him what to do.  And then the sea lions started to misbehave and not do what they were supposed to.  It made for a very funny and very long show!

Once that show was over we decided to go to the shark encounter.  That thing was so cool.  We walked through this little aquarium and saw all kinds of awesome fishes.  We then came to the shark walk through.  There were TONS of sharks...like 50 of them swimming all around you.  We saw a stingray with them all as well.  It was a little scary knowing how many sharks were all around.  Jacob loved it because he loves that kind of thing.

After that we were hungry and didnt really see a lot to eat there so we were done and left to go get some lunch.  We ended up back at Downtown Disney since it wasnt raining and we wanted to go explore around there.  So we went to House of Blues for lunch and their food was great!  We loved it.  After that we went and walked around and went to a bunch of other stores.  tom wanted to go back to the Ghiradelli store so we went over to the ice cream shop and got some ice cream.  We then just sat down by the waterfall they have and just relaxed while Tyler played with some other kids.

Jacob was not feeling well today so he was really trying to take it easy.  We knew that he was not doing well and so we wanted to go back to the hotel so that he can take a nap and try to rest.  So we went back and it started to rain, again!  It poured really hard and we just sat in our hotel room watching the rain.  Jacob took a nap and when he woke up we went to dinner.  We ended up going to the boardwalk to walk around and go to dinner.  We ate a lot of food today so no one was all that hungry.  But we still ended up ordering a bunch of yummy food.  We went back to the hotel room and put the kids to bed.  Jacob has struggled going to bed because he still is not feeling good at all.

Tomorrow we head to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.  I am excited about this one because when I came here when I was a teenager, these are the only parks I remember.  And I remember that they were a lot of fun!!