Brody's First Trip to Seaworld

We spent one of our last two days of summer vacation at the exciting SeaWorld.  It was our last family outing before I had to go back to work. We met my friend Liz along with her two kids Logan and Ella there as well.  Brody did extremely well, considering he didn't have a morning nap.  Here he is getting his picture taken with Shamu.  At first he was very interested in the whale.  Yet, after he came closer to him, he wanted nothing to do with him and tried to climb over Stuart to get away.  Maybe, just maybe, he overheard someone say he was a killer whale.

Speaking of killer whales, we went to see the Shamu show first.  I'll admit, it was a bit of a disappointment from the last time I saw this show.  The trainers did not get in the water this time around because of the " incident" that happened a couple of years back.

Playing the drums

Watching the stingrays

Such a sweet boy!  One of the shows was delayed for some lightning in the area.  Glad they felt safe for all of us to sit on METAL bleachers to wait for the show to start!! Brody took advantage of the delay and took a much needed power nap.  

Brody was amazed at the dolphins!  They were putting on quite a show for him.  We then had to watch the whale and dolphin show.  Good thing we were there just in time. 

They had Brody's full attention

Brody loved drinking from Daddy's camelbak.  Well, he wasn't technically drinking out of it, but he certainly liked to try. 

I can't believe that after 5 hours at Seaworld in July we were able to get a family picture of everyone looking at the camera and smiling!  Brody holding on to his new friend.  We thought that this would be a great back up from his puppy stuffed animal that he always sleeps with.  No such luck though.  He still prefers his puppy over the others.  I am not looking forward to the day when we loose him.