Sunday, October 07, 2012

SeaWorld Field Trip to Study Toothed Whales

Eating lunch after petting sting rays and riding Atlantis, waiting for the dolphin show to start.

The show is amazing- it featured dolphin-human stunts, acrobatics, diving, and trained birds.  It gave us an opportunity to talk about breaching, lobtailing, spyhopping and logging.

Jack wanted to be a dolphin trainer, Madalyn, a trapeze artist, and Evan, a diver.  Jake wants to be a movie stunt man. :)

Then we caught a dolphin feeding at just the right time.  It was such a great experience for the kids to be so close to them and get to touch and feed them.  They also got to see first-hand how they swallow their food whole without chewing.

Before we even had our fish they were trying to be cute and perform- squirting water at us and so on, playfully.  Here they are posing, so funny.



























We ran out of time for the Shamu show but visited the Wild Arctic Belugas and rode a bunch of kid rides and coasters.

Our field trip attire, as his mother noted.

It was a really great day.  We made a lot of good memories, God is good.  (And so is Honey who baked cupcakes and did fall art projects at home with the toddlers, thank you, Honey!)