Sea World and San Diego

This last week we went to Sand Diego for Fall Break. We invited our friends, the Leishman's, to go with us. We had a great time!

We drove Tuesday night and stayed in Las Vegas that night. It reminded me why I don't really like Vegas that much.

The next day we drove to San Diego and the next day we headed to Sea World! It was supposed to rain that day which made it good and bad. Bad because it rained, but good because everyone else avoided going there and it was empty!

First we headed straight to the dolphins. The kids got to pet them and they loved it!

Petting the rays was pretty cool too!

Next the best part happened. Like I said, the place was pretty empty so when we were walking by the sea lion show one of the actors asked if we would like to come back and pet a sea otter. OF COURSE!!!

It was fun to see this same girl holding the otter in the play later on.

Next was the shark aquarium.

It was all decked out for Halloween which made it Devin and Karter's favorite place.

We bought some fish so the kids could feed the sea lions. One of the sea lions would screech every time someone would hold up a fish. Needless to say he was a well fed sea lion!

Next we headed to the Shamu show. I've been to Sea World enough times to know to bring a poncho so you don't get wet when they spray you... only we didn't get drenched by the whales... this was the time it started to rain... no rain is too mild a word, it POURED!!!

We did a few more things:

But then it started to pour again and we packed it up to come back the next day. Looking back I wish we would ahve stayed when it was empty!

The next day we headed back to Sea World for some more fun.

We went to the Sea Lion Spooktacular.

I told Devin it was going to be spooooky:

The sea lion show as the kids favorite. Ally told me she is going to be trainer at Sea World when she grows up... yep, I remember thinking that exact thing at her age when my parents brought me.

Are final day there we went to Silverstrand Beach.

It was so windy, Aja had to stay in her car seat and miss out on putting her toes in the warm sand.

After that I put her in the sling and she took an hour nap while I looked for sea shells while she slept. She was SO amazing with all the craziness of this vacation... of course, that's how she always is.

We had so much fun and we love going with the Leishman's!!!