On Friday, we went to the Riverwalk for dinner and took one of the boat tours again. Even though it was chilly, we ate by the river, and Mara loved feeding the tortilla chips to the ducks. The Riverwalk looked amazing with all of the lights.
We spent both Saturday and Sunday at SeaWorld. This was only the third year that the park has been open in December, and it's the first year they actually decorated for Christmas and had a few holiday shows.
Shamu Claus
We got to feed the dolphins and sea lions, which Mara loves to do. Both days we got to the park shortly before it opened, and the dolphins were pretty hungry. They were especially hungry Sunday because even after we ran out of fish, they were still popping up out of the tank and getting pretty close to people. As a result, all three of us got to touch a dolphin. And I'm not just talking about accidentally brushing it like what's happened before, but we got to touch them multiple times. There are still a few young dolphins in the tank, and we're pretty sure that those were the ones that were more willing to come up to people even if they didn't have food.
Feed me!
Yummy fish!
Cheese!
We even stopped by and fed the lorikeets. We hadn't done it before, but Mara was really interested and insisted that we do so.
We also attended all the shows. Here are some pictures we got of the holiday Shamu show called "Miracles."
And here's a series of one of the whales doing a jump.
Mara wanted to pose with the whale statue outside of Shamu stadium.
She even decided to give it a kiss. :)
Mara enraptured by one of the shows.
One of the highlights of the trip was that we signed up to be kissed by a beluga whale. Each one of us got down and got our picture with it.
Since we have season passes for next year, we're already talking about going back next December since it was a nice way to experience the holiday season. :)
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