Shamu! Shamu!

I hate the crowds at tourist attractions, especially when you are carrying a baby in a baby bjorn and every other stranger feels it is their right to touch your daughters leg and comment how big she is. On another tangent I finally told someone at SuperTarget not to touch my baby as she started cooing at what chubby little girl Anna was and her hand started to reach for her face. I was not rude I just backed away and said "Please do not touch my child, I do not know you" Sorry for the sidebar. Back to tourist attractions, we live really close to Seaworld...I mean you could almost smell Shamu if the wind was right. So of course with my youngest Korean aunt and her two daughters (ages 4 & 6) visiting, we had to go.

Jeremiah was really excited as were his cousins. Half the time they were here it was hard to get them to wake up before 9 but with plans to go to Seaworld we were out the door by 9:30. For a mere $5 you can purchase fish to feed the dolphins which also enables you to touch them. I say mere because it has to cost a lot of money to take care of the dolphins and feeding them is the only way they will approach you to let you pet them. Jeremiah wasn't to keen on feeding them but he really wanted to touch them and he got really close but was a few inches short.

Jeremiah really wanted the dolphins to come closer, and look you can see Anna's profile. I will admit she is chubby but that doesn't mean I need the commentary of strangers.

Geena getting up close and personal with a dolphin, but she was afraid to actually feed him the anchovy, so finally I had to give it to him or her (how can you tell with dolphins?)

Jeremiah reaching out to touch but just a little too short.

So after visiting the dolphins, we went to the Aquarium, watched the Shamu show and the Seal show and went to the water park. Annalise and I relaxed in the shade while everyone else experienced the wave pool, waterslides, and kiddie splash area. At least in the shade no one tried to touch Annalise.