CA Trip 3

Sunday, Day 3:

We slept in a little bit (at least according to our internal clocks still on mountain time zone!!), ate breakfast and played some before we headed to SeaWorld to see as C stated, "See the whole world!"  E was our tour guide as he loves the place (his parents came along too, while J stayed home to play with her P).

We made it to the dolphin area just as they were letting the dolpins greet everyone.  Both C and I got to pet the dolphin. 

While D, E, J and L went on the Manta rollar coaster, M took us to see the manta rays and to see if we could touch them also.  I was able to reach down and touch one, but C's arm was too short and even when they would come towards us high in the water the rays would dive right before getting to us.

We made our way to the Shamu show, while D and J went to get us lunch.  We watched the whales play in the water before the show started and were enthralled by the jumps during the show.

We walked through most of the other animal exhibits and saw lots of different types of sealife.

We watched the sealion and otter show, which was a special haunted castle episode for the month of October.

After looking at the some more animals, we went on the Atlantis ride.  I got to go twice because both M and D wanted to go and since C was too short, one of them had to watch her.  After E and his parents left (which I had a hard time with because I wanted to leave too and go back to the house and swim) we went on some of the other rides and play things in the Seaseame Street area before heading to the dolphin show.

The dolphin show had flying dolphins, flying birds and flying people.  M was quite impressed with the acrobats and human divers flying through the air.

Before leaving SeaWorld we took our pictures with some of the characters visiting the park for its Spooktacular celebration.

While C and I slept from our long fun-filled day, M and D drove by the harbor in the hopes of seeing D's former navy ship in port.  It was dusk by the time we spotted it, so D couldn't read the numbers to be sure it was his ship, but it was the class of ship he had been stationed on in San Diego, so he's pretty sure it was the USNS Guadalupe.

Since it was late and dark by the time we arrived back at the house, it was too chilly to swim in the pool.  Instead we ate supper and played with train tracks inside.  While M was reading a book to E (and everyone else was in the garage watching the Sunday night football game), they heard a crash outside on the patio by the pool.  When J went out to investigate it was discovered that the middle glass plate on the table had shattered.  Just a freak accident, I guess.