Focht Family Blog

This morning we woke up and drove the RV to Sea World. It was a fun but tiring day. As soon as we got into the park we went to see the Budweiser Clydesdale horses. Nathan had looked before on their sites to see where you could go to see the horses and couldn’t find information listed. Seems like they would tell you they were at Sea World. Here is a picture of Diamond, one of the horses.

Theses horses were easily the biggest horses I have ever seen. Next up were the dolphins. I mentioned that I like wolves. I love dolphins even more. They are so beautiful and graceful. I told Samantha that once Joshua is old enough I am taking all of us to swim with the dolphins. This part of the park allows you to buy fish to feed to the dolphins. When they are close to you to get the fish you can pet them. Their skin is like smooth, slippery leather. I will not ever forget being able to feed and pet a dolphin. We bought 4 fish so Nathan helped Joshua with his fish and Samantha, Timmy and I all got a fish. The lady said not to let the dolphins see the tray because they know that there are 4 fish in them and they will wait until you give them all 4 before moving on. They are very smart creatures. Here is a close up of one of the dolphins and of Nathan petting one.

After petting and feeding the dolphins we went to the shows. The first show I forgot to get pictures at. It was acrobatics with people, dolphins, and beluga whales. The second show was the Shamu show. I took a few pictures but had to put my camera away because the only seats that were open were in the soak zone and I didn’t want my camera to be ruined. Poor Joshua had fallen asleep on my lap and was rudely awoken by a drenching of cold saltwater.

After lunch we went on ONE ride with Samantha and Joshua. Mom wasn’t feeling well and Timmy was afraid. It was a flume ride that we got a little wet on. Then we went to the sea lions where we bought more fish to feed. Unfortunately you cannot touch the sea lions so you just have to toss the fish to them. Samantha was thrilled that she tossed hers and it landed right in one of their mouths. Here is a picture of one of the sea lions begging.

Right after this we went to the sea lion show. It was a cute little mystery where the sea lions are looking for Uncle Max, who has disappeared. The show had 4 sea lions, an otter and a walrus in it. In the end they find out that Max isn’t missing and he shows up. Max is the walrus. Here is a picture of two of the sea lions and the walrus.

One of the funniest parts of this show was that we were once again in the splash zone. We were in the last row so we didn’t get that wet but when the water came our way it was a huge wave with a lot of wind throwing it. Here is a picture of what it did to Josh’s hair. :)

After the show we went to look at the sharks and then said goodbye to the dolphins. Unfortunately they wouldn’t come up to us because it was pass feeding time and none of us had fish to feed to them. :) I will forever remember those dolphins.

The only bad part of the day was when we came back our hose was missing. This park is very nice but they were recently bought by a corporation and they have a few things on their website that are no longer here. They advertise a hot tub, which they got rid of. They advertise that they sell discount tickets to the area attractions, they don’t. So far when we have left just for the day at any of the parks we have gone to, I just disconnect our hose from our RV and leave it hooked to the faucet so it is easier for hooking up when we get back instead of having to roll up the hose everyday if we will be at the same place for more than one day. The office was already closed so I am hoping that I find out in the morning that they picked it up not knowing we were coming back, although they should have known. So, right now all we have is our little hose for water. I am glad I didn’t leave anything else out.