Day 27 - San Diego

Best day ever!!!

Woke up early to get organised to head off to San Diego. We were out of the house by 7.30am so we pulled up at Sea World just after 10am. And it was full on from that minute!!

First stop was guest services where we decided to book in our experience with the Beluga Whales. It was just going to be Ian and I but kids wanted to do it too so I said they could pay half and other half could be for Christmas.
Next off to our first ride - the Manta Coaster. Walking up on my crutches the attendant sent me to get a fast pass so we didn't have to wait in line- AWESOME!!  The Manta Coaster was great fun, not quite as scary as The Abyss but pretty good.

Next we went to the Sea Lion show which was great.  The sea lions are so clever with what they can do and I loved watching Kaleb's face filled with awe & happiness as he was watching.

Then off to the Orca show which was even more awesome!!  So amazing watching them jump right out of the water and hilarious watching everyone in the front rows getting soaked!

The Pets Rule show was next with heaps of domestic animals, lots of them rescued, performing. There were dogs, cats, pigs, and birds performing all sorts of tricks- they were really clever.

We rushed back to watch the Sea Lion & Otter show, the otter was cute but he didn't do much so it was pretty similar to the show we had already seen.

We went to see the penguins in a very cool enclosure complete with ice! From there we utilised my fast pass to jump the queue at the Wild Arctic ride which was a flight simulator ride, a bit like the Fly Over Canada (but not quite as good). By the time we had finished this it was time to get organised for our beluga experience. Sooo awesome! We got to feed them and pat them and do the commands for some tricks. We even got a kiss on the cheek from one of the older ones.

Awesome experience but there was still more to come. Went to the dolphin show which was terrific! Kaleb insisted on sitting in the front row of the soak zone so was completely saturated.

We decided we may as well do the wet rides next so we did the rapids ride followed by the flume ride. Now we were all wet!! The boys had a play in the playground and Caitlin had her hands nibbled by a fish. We caught the end of the acrobat show and then headed to the Baywatch amphitheatre  to see the final show which was on the water. There were acrobats and trapeze & ropes & sashes and then out of nowhere speeds this guy through the water with like a jet pack on his back!! Very entertaining- we all loved it!