Vacation Day 7 – Sea World

Sea World Day began sadly, as we had to return the car. But here’s Sara with our dear Mazda 6.

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We avoided a $20 cab fare by continuing to master the art of public transportation and made our way to Sea World by mid-morning. Sea World had long been a part of the plans since before we even really had a plan of coming to San Diego. It was more of a “Some day, when we go to San Diego, can I go see the manatees?” Because Sara loves manatees. Like she’d probably leave me for a manatee. So we were definitely going to Sea World.

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Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get up close to touch any manatees, but we still spent some quality time watching them swim around and eat lettuce. Several of them had lots of scar tissue and disfigured tails, and since they were all rescued from Florida, we figured they must have been hurt by boats and hunters and stuff. Neither of us are fans of seeing miserable animals in captivity, but all over Sea World, you’d really get this sort of happy and content vibe from the animals. The positive sides of it were very evident with these guys.

We went on this splashy rapids ride that had no line at all thanks to the fact that it was cloudy and in the 60s. Sara wasn’t excited about getting soaked on a cool day, so I let her wear my jacket, which I later regretted. We got so soaked on that ride that my shorts were literally still damp 8 hours later. But here are a few pictures I took the first time we went on it (we went twice in a row because no one else was waiting to go on):

Sara looking in anticipation at the coming rapids:

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A big waterfall (and a second waterfall along the side) that we were headed straight for:

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Sara’s reaction to seeing the inevitable drenching:

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Later on, we went to a dolphin show, which I thought had the potential to be kind of lame, but it was really cool. The dolphins seemed like they were having tons of fun, and it was really a lot of fun and pretty funny. Probably the biggest surprise of the day. But here are a few pictures of the show. The first is obviously a dolphin, and the second was some kind of whale that was also part of the show. It kind of looks like a disfigured black shoe in that picture, but I promise it’s a whale.

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Some people asked me to take a picture of them, so we asked them to return the favor. So here we are in front of the dolphin pool.

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