A crazy trip to Sea World

I know I have a lot of posts about Sea World, but for now it's been the economical entertainment option for us to have annual passes there. Maybe one day I'll be posting about weekly trips to Disney, but I'd probably have to go back to work for that which would leave no time to play at Disney......so alas more pics of Sea World!

I got to enjoy a girl's day with Megan and met her sweet friend Matti whose mom is my sweet friend Kari. We had a great time and enjoyed letting the girls have a fun day together. Our first stop was to see Allure. It's a show filled with drama and acrobatics and dance and gymnastics and we knew the girls would love to see all the dancing! Here they are getting ready for the show.

About half way through the show (here's the crazy part of the trip) the power went out! Just as the performers were spinning and climbing and swinging through the air. We tried to wait it out, but noone came to tell us how long it would be or give any further directions, so we headed over to ride the kiddie rides. Well, evidently it was a sporadic power outage, so no carousel, no rides....what to do? Thank goodness for a giant sandbox!
The polar bears had power, so we got to see them and walrus and beluga whales!
We then went to check out Shamu.....because you can't go to Sea World without seeing Shamu at least once right? Well, the ropes were up and it was almost show time! What? No Shamu? And then they opened the ropes.....A nice cool treat of Shamu bars for the girls and frozen lemonade for Kari and baby Michael!
It really was fun to see the trainers interact with all the whales without all the music and lights to drown everything out. I never realized just how loud it was in there! We could hear them calling out commands and talking with each other and hear the splashes so clearly. So even though it wasn't what we expected it was a fantastic trip to Sea World!