We saw the different varieties of penguins and puffins next since they are super close to the whales/polar bears. I always like seeing these guys-they look so surreal to me, and then they are so fluid in the water. The kids didn't love the fishy smell, but they liked watching the antics of the penguins!
Next up-Atlantis! I was so excited for the older kids to ride this, and none of them appeared at all nervous until they saw the drop!!!! Nonetheless, they were all game, so we started our rounds of taking certain kids on in turn. We didn't do the family line honestly-we could have, but the kids staying off the ride wanted to watch the others splash down, and the wait was only 5 minutes, so we went with it.
Me, JD, Jordan, Karianna, and Sara coming around the bend after the big drop! We had the car all to ourselves! JD and Jordan sat in front of me, Sara sat next to me (I had my arms around her the whole time), and Karianna braved the back by herself. Unfortunately, Karianna banged her head on the side of the boat and was crying a bit in the pictures below-she did a GREAT job, though, overcoming that initial hardship and really enjoying the rest of the ride. I was really proud of her.
Me turning around to console Karianna, poor girl. I kept yelling to the boys, are you all right? Are you okay? They were just fine. ;)
Jared took Karianna and Sara up for the second go round-the boys said they were done with rollar coasters, which surprised me because they both said they loved it! JD would swear, from that point on, that he is "not a roller coaster guy".
Instead, they both insisted on getting soaked with each big wave that came down!
See Jared waving?
Nearly at the bottom of the big fall! Karianna is behind Jared and Sara is on his side.
Sara had a bit of a hard time with this ride-she told Jared her stomach was feeling funny after the big fall, and Jared was a little worried she was going to throw up. Thankfully, that didn't happen. She would decide, at that point, that she was done with roller coasters. I was still super proud of her, at 5, to be brave enough to go on Atlantis twice!
Checking out the mini aquairiums while we waited at Atlantis.
After we were done riding Atlantis, we zipped over to the shark encounter-so awesome! The boys know a lot about sharks and spent quite a bit of time trying to ID the many types of sharks in the pools. Jackson kept saying, "Oh no!" and just staring wide eyes at the sharks swimming around.
Climbing the shark tooth wall!
I wanted a better picture than this, but oh well! Entering the long-awaited shark tunnel!
Another leg of day 1 at Seaworld done-and all before lunch! At this point, the park started to get busier, and our beautiful weather-overcast, cool, windy-started to warm up just a bit. Nonetheless, the kids were having an absolute blast!
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