Sea World

We drove up to Seaworld in our little car that we bought last week. It's a '88 Nissan Pintara named Chester Churchill (of course in honour of Marlene). Entrance to a theme park here is about $75 per adult pass, however they have a sale on every winter where you can get a VIP pass for $99. With our VIP passes we get unlimited access to Sea World, Movie World (Universal Studios but Warner Brothers style), and Wet 'n' Wild extreme watersliding park for a year. Boo-Ya!
One downside to the park was that you're not allowed to bring in a cooler of your own food except for dietary special needs, After scarfing some food in the parking lot, we shoved some granola bars in the diaper bag and headed in. At the front gate there were the regular ticket booth and a express line for VIP pass holders and the like. I started heading to the VIP line when Spen pointed out that it didn't go anywhere except to the end of the regular line. There were only 2 or 3 families ahead of us so we got in line and waited patiently. During our less than 10 minute wait, 2 different groups of people wound through the line dividers that go no where and then walked up to the ticket booth lady and knocked on the glass because they were VIP holders. Poor guys though they were going to get special treatment because they walked through the special ropes, honestly people.The first show we went to was a pirate show. It was a little disappointing in that it didn't have any animals, but it was kind of cool to see all of the people doing acrobatics with the trampolines.
We got to go on lots of rides (mostly Spencer) but Ros got to go on the carousel with Mom too. My favourite is always the log ride which was somewhat less than spectacular in height and they made you ride alone which always makes you feel a little bit like a loner.

Some of the really cool animals that we saw were some Canadian Polar bears, dolphins, star fish, sea cucumbers, sting rays, all kinds of tropical fish, penguins, and sharks. There were touching pools where you could touch the rays, star fish and cucumbers. The sea cucumbers were crazy squishy with almost no resistance to your touch. Amazingly, a sea cucumber will spew out all of it's digestive organs when a predator is near so that the predator will eat that and the cucumber will be safe. It will just grow back a new digestive tract.
The dolphin show was also really cool and because Ros had fallen asleep in the pram we got to go to the front row reserved for prams and wheelchairs. I was close to getting picked to touch a dolphin but I guess I'll have to appear more crazed next time as that's what got you picked while we were there. We had loads of fun and we're excited to hopefully go back again soon, but I think Movie World will be our next adventure. Love to all.