dolphin love

Maybe I'm a  born pessimist but I was really not looking forward to our Christmas Eve visit to Sea World. The idea of any captive wild animal makes me sad, but man, I loved those dolphins and the show they put on. My even more cynical father did point out the volume of fish that the trainers had to bribe all the mammals with. I guess it wasn't just for the pleasure of entertaining us. Short story... we loved it. We even went back in the evening so the kids could enjoy a beautiful light show and fire works display. It was a lovely, and dare I say, magical, Christmas Eve. The highlight of our trip.

Here's a couple pics from our morning visit.

 Ready for the show.

The Shamu show (the third of the day) didn't exactly hold the kids' attention like a water fight out front.

Elliott literally saw Bert and Ernie, jumped out of the stroller and ran right into their arms. He was very quickly escorted away as a line skipper. Oh the shame. It was awesome.

Elliott's favorite Sesame character was a little more intimidating in person.

It's snowing like crazy here today so I don't imagine we'll be getting up to much.
Hope you're having a happy day wherever you are. xoxo AJ