Sea World Spooktacular

This year, October's weather has been perfect! I feel as it's Calfornia weather -- 70 degrees and sunny. With Sea World having special shows and decorations for the Halloween season, we planned another daytrip to San Antonio. I really think October is the best time to go to Sea World -- it's not hot and the park wasn't nearly as packed! We saw our typical shows... Viva and Shamu, but we also found time to make it to a couple of new things. Daddy and Sophie rode a few kiddie rides in Happy Harbour and we went to feed & then watch The Cannery Row Caper at the Sea Lion Stadium.

Sophie and Daddy listening to the sea lions "talk":

We had the BEST LAUGH during the sea lion show. David and I decide to sit in the last row of the "splash zone" as we typically do in the Shamu show and never get wet. This way, we're close enough to see all the action but don't have to deal with the sticky feeling of pool water sprayed on you with your clothes on! The show was pretty entertaining! Towards the end of the show, as part of the prop, a firehose literally shot out of the background setting and hit the three of us square in the chests. Sophie was completely startled and started crying and we were all drenched! We definitely learned a lesson on where to not sit in the sea lion stadium!

Poor Sophie ended up riding back to Austin in just a pull-up as we didn't want her sitting in her car seat wet!














As always, we love visiting the dolphins. You can see Sophie really having fun watching them swim to us: