These are my sometimes wild and sometimes mild giraffes. The park had alot of these face filler animals. Stay tuned for more.
Zach had a turn!
Caleb couldn't be left out either!
Now for the real giraffes. There were quite a few a mom, her 1 yr and 2 or 3 yr. old baby, an expectant mother for this summer and the daddy.
Zach and Kirsten wanted a picture with the baby. I don't know what Zach was thinking when I snapped that picture. Maybe..." I"m busy here mom, just take the picture already."
Meercats! The most famous being Timon from the movie Lion King! Just like the movie; my kids loved watching these interesting creatures. If you look closely in the center of the picture you will see a baby cat that has gotten out of the tunnel home. The kids were terribly worried about this baby and so we watched as one by one the meercats came by and sniffed and clawed at this baby. I was thinking that it was dead and wanted to move the kids along before it was eaten or something, but then I saw the baby move. It was more like it was sleeping and the adults were trying to arouse it. Some adults were a little more gentle than others. We continued to watch for about 10 minutes. 
We watched the patrolling, just like the movie and then to our delight, the moma came out of a tunnel farther down, scolded the adults for their bad behavior toward her baby and then took him home. Amazing! We could then move to the next animal.
The kids were always wanting to get a closer look so we set them up on the fence to get a better look at the anteater as it searched for food around its area.
Caleb had no trouble or worries in leaning into the fence. I'm still waiting for him to learn limits and fear. Anybody know when that will happen?
It was another hot day in San Diego. We loved being in short leaves and feeling the sun on our faces; we even put on sunscreen. This is amazing if you remember in Utah it is snowing.
A nice family helped to take our picture. Caleb is doing his "cheese face."
They had these bush animals all over the park. It reminded me of Cindy Bame my friend and visiting teachee and how she loves elephants.
Another picture of the cool elephant bushes. I was hoping that I would get one good one with out the glare of the sun. No luck this time.
There were also many hummingbirds throughout the park. I caught in this picture on the left bottom of the screen. It is green. They were beautiful!
Someone got smart and put it a place for the little guys that want more hands on fun...Sesame Street Bay of play! We climbed up this big netted rope to the top of a play area then a some choices as to were we could go walking or crawling through a tube. I went with the boys and crawled... bigger people aren't meant to do this. The boys just zoomed through then lid down the slide to the finish. I opted to take the stairs down not because I wanted to but because I was too big. There is that height restriction again. It can go both ways.
After the rope expedition, we tried out the rides that everyone could ride.This one was Elmo's Flying Fish. We also went on Oscar's Rockin Eels' a roller coaster ride that caleb actually liked. Abby's Sea Star Spin was another ride where you sit in a saucer thingy and have a wheel in the middle that you can spin. Caleb deemed himself the only one who could spin us. We went a number of times because there were no lines. What great fun.
Last but not least we did " Splish Splash" a water area for little kids. Caleb got his turn to be wet for the day. When he was done we gave him a diaper change and rang out his shirt he was soaked and loving it. There was another little boy about his age that ran around with him and joined in the fun. All the adults sat back on the benches and just laughed. Their expressions were hilarious!
Zach and Kirsten ran around the area too trying to miss the sprays of water shooting up from the ground.
Here we are at the end of the SeaWorld day! Exhausted from the walking and all the fun!. Caleb shirt is trying to dry on the stroller.
At the dolphin discovery show we watch a family interact with the smaller whales and feed them fish. It was funny at some points.
The best part of the show was when the trainers rode on the whales or dolphins like in this picture the black rock is really a whale. I wasn't fast enough with the camera to get the really cool shots. It was pretty impressive!
After the show we headed over to the dolphin tank to visit the dolphins that hadn't performed in the show. Zach enjoyed the walk down view of the tank that you could see up close with.
When we went up top side a dolphin came up to Caleb and I. I came up right along side the cement and then blew it's blowhole out on Caleb and I. We felt so impressed that we were chosen to in essence get sneezed on. Then I was able to pet or feel it. It was very smooth and cool. The dolphin had enough contact and went back under before the other kids got a chance to feel it. But we stuck around and waited anyway. they are amazing to watch.
Finally we got to see the Shamu Show. Zach was in no way interested in getting wet anymore as he was still wet from the wreck ride and stood behind Nathan to be shielded. We didn't get wet though even though the trainers noticed our section got missed and tried again to get us wet. The kids enjoyed watch the enormous animals though.
We were getting a little warm by the afternoon, (it being 80 degrees and all) so we jumped on the shipwreck rapids ride. Kirsten, Zach and I went down first and got mildly wet on our pants mostly. We loved the whole ride though.
We are still smiling we hadn't gotten cooled off yet. Zach is getting a little nervous now.
Then Nathan took the kids on again and I stayed back with Caleb. Being little stink sometimes. Zach had a wave of water come over the top of the raft and soaked him really good. 
Here they are going up the belt at the end of the ride.
Here are the troopers at the end of the ride. Both kids pants are sagging from the weight of the water, but they had fun.
The kids were so excited to go to seaworld on Monday! They were really excited about the sharks... or at least the boys were. We went down underground in tunnels and saw the different shark passing over us. We were close enough to see their hideous teeth. Zach loved every minute of it. 
This is the largest shark tank underground and Zach stood here in ahh for a long time following the sharks. If you look in the top of the picture you'll see the belly of a huge shark.
Caleb was impressed by it all. He would run from one display to another. This big tuna fish caught his attention though. Look at his expression in the glass reflection. 
Looking is great, but touching is soooooo much better at least for the kids. There was a star fish pond that you could reach in and catch a star although the attendant did require that you keep it in the water and not put it in your pocket. Caleb wanted to jump in a couple of times and the weather was beautiful but the water smell was not. 
We also visited the seal and had the option to feed them some dead fish. My reaction was the same as caleb's to feeding the seals. This seal was waiting for his snack. Caleb is saying his favorite word these days, " ewhhhh."
