california vacation: day three, sea world

Sea world was a delight.  Upon entering the park we discovered they have a whole sesame street section dedicated to little kid rides.  Lily being the Elmo fanatic that she is was in heaven.  Elmo's flying fish was exciting.

And the giggling didn't stop on the spinning rides.  It's always more fun with dad, those girls sure are lucky.

We got to meet Elmo and Grover.  Lily, who wouldn't go near any other character unless she was safe in someone's arms, had no problem hugging Elmo.  A rare streak of bravery for that girl.

And we found some flamingos just hanging around, maybe getting a little too close for comfort.

The dolphin show is always fun to see.

The shark tanks are some of our favorites.

  Grandma was a big help throughout the day.

 For a limited time the park had a little snow land.  They filled an area with snow and sectioned off places for sledding and snowball fights.  While this is probably a novelty to those southern californians, I didn't think we would spend much time there since we see the stuff a little too much in Utah, but Halle probably had the most fun here.  She loved the sledding.  And Wes and I just sat there thinking we could do this at home for free, he he.

We took Halle off on her own to the dolphin tanks where they literally come right up to you and let you pet them.  The park was empty and so we sat at the whale tank and the trainer had the whale wave to Halle.  She loves whales and has even showed interest in becoming a whale trainer, so this was a real treat for her.  

The grand finale was the whale show at the end of the day that is always impressive.

We really love this park.