Sea World

 What a better way to start out the day at Sea World than at the Shamu Killer Whale Show! 

Next we stopped by the bird pond with all kinds of birds and flamingos.  The kids were feeding the birds pellets from the animal food vending machine and Alex felt left out since he wasn't feeding the birds and threw his whole banana in the pond.  He chucked it from quite a ways.  We all had a good laugh watching Kayla fishing the banana out of the water.

See how far Alex is from the wall...he made that banana fly over Tristan's head right into the pond. 

After that we gave him pellets to feed the birds instead.

The next show we watched was a Cirque du Soleil type of program with Beluga Whales, dolphins, divers, synchronized swimmers and acrobats. 

Kayla with one of the performers.

We had a great day riding roller coasters and looking at all the animal exhibits.  In fact Tristan rode his first big roller coaster....the whole time he said mommy I don't like this and I'm going to barf.  But the moment he got off the ride his story changed to I loved it can we do it again. 
The last thing we did for the day was feeding and petting the dolphins...Kayla said that was her favorite thing!

Carrie feeding the dolphins.

At the end of the day...we had to stay goodbye to Brett, Carrie and Alex!
We went to visit our friend Aaron Homjak after Sea World...we have known him since Turkey where we traveled all over the country with him.  He brought the kids an Easter surprise.  It was great to catch up!