Sorry Shamu

Our Sea World post deserves better than a 2 month delay. Better late than never I ALWAYS wind up saying!

On our final day in Orlando we chose to go to Sea World. Since we wanted to maximize our time in the parks, each day we went to the park that was open the latest. Sea World's hours were the same and they opened earliest, so we actually had to set our alarm! After cereal in the room for breakfast, we were on our way.

This was the only day we had to drive anywhere. Once we got there we waited in the short ticket line, we got our free tickets! How nice of them to do a free day for military and their families. We really appreciate it.

First stop flamingos

Then the Manta Ray play zone

This was my first up close view of these things. Pretty cute!

Penguins are always a favorite of Jackson's

Baby Gators

We were all over Sea World in the best way we knew to get around, but I don't know how well we did.

Lots of pretty walkways.

Pick a penguin, Win a penguin

Getting sleepy already!

Cute little show  with Sea Lions and Seals

I love dolphin shows. This one was a dolphin, (I forgot what kind of whale) and bird show

The bird part was odd. Very odd! Luckily they had live birds too.

 Next stop, the Polar Express! They had an interactive train you could ride on and it was supposed to be pretty realistic. Jackson wasn't tall enough to ride :( so we did the walk through version. It was cool! Polar bears, other arctic animals, and Santa was even in there. I think a lot of it was underground. There was an ice wall, hot chocolate, and some really "cool" exhibits.

Dinner time! We got the meal plan, very handy and cheap!

Jack's fav was the chocolate cake

I think this was actually during the Polar express part. He's on MY shoulders here.

 They had a ton of kiddie rides! We didn't get to do many because the last Shamu show was about to start and we really wanted Jack to see Shamu. He loves whales!

Out of all the parents and kids on the jumping and spinning jellyfish, I was the dizzy one that had
to sit down for a minute when we got off the ride. It didn't hit me til we stopped.

 We walked in just as the whale show was starting. We made sure to sit in the no splash zone! Guess who fell asleep after about 10 minutes in the show? Little man was done!

 It was so pretty!

They already had most of their Christmas decorations up. I loved all the blue!

Poor Jackson slept all the way to the car. It was really nice for me and Jeremy though!
We took our time, window shopped and enjoyed the weather.

When we got back to the hotel we game him his white chocolate dolphin surprise

Our night was far from over. We still had some exploring to do! There was so much to see at our hotel. We went and saw the 60's buildings.

Then the 50's. Jackson just had to climb up in the bowling pin stair case. He loved the themed stairs at all the buildings. There are stairs in the yo-yo above too.

One of my favorites. Lady!

Bowling pin pool and 50's area

We played at the juke box for awhile

Then we hit up the huge resort arcade. Fun!

While we were in the arcade, I found Jackson's cup that we had left there on our second day! We had already filled out a lost and found and asked around if anyone had seen it. Jeremy and Jackson went in there to play for a little bit before we went to the Magic Kingdom. Once in the park we realized it was missing. So Jeremy went back in there looking for it when we got back and couldn't find it. So on this night, I was watching Jack play around and looked straight up at his cup :) It was right where Jeremy and Jackson were playing the day before. Go figure...

He loved it!

We went to the food court for a late snack

So sweet.
He was snuggling with the little animal they made out of a hand towel in our room.

As always, checking out was so sad! We didn't want to leave. Jackson was a very big boy about packing up and leaving, even though we were all heart broken.

His first time at Disney, coming to a close :(

Napping with Brutus. We stopped at a DQ/Gas Station/Store and Jackson brought Brutus to me.
Totally my weakness, especially since he was from the Junkyard Dog Collection
and he was on sale! I couldn't say no. I was a Pound Puppy fan myself.

At least we had a pretty drive! Chloe was so happy to see us, but Trish (the lady that kept her) said she was a hoot! I could tell they spoiled her :)

We are so thankful that we had to oportunity to take Jackson to Disney! I love living close. Yes, if it is under 400 miles away...that is close for us! We are already planning our next trip. We had the BEST time.