Sea World

For my birthday, my parents got me an annual pass to Sea World, which was way generous of them! I had never been there and have wanted to go for a very long time, so we decided to go on Monday and Tuesday during Thanksgiving Break. On Monday, we just wanted to take it easy and see what there was to do there. We saw some pretty cool dolphins... AND SHAMU!!! We also took some time to check out their Christmas decorations!
We stayed until closing time and then went over to Old Town to see the Mormon Battalion Visitors Center. It recently re-opened after being renovated and it is way different and way cooler! We were super impressed by the presentation and how informative it was. Here we are at the visitors center: At the end they take your picture and you can email it to yourself:
Then, we ate dinner at a place that we often go to on our more recent Old Town San Diego trips. It's just across the street from the Whaley House, which you can see in the background. The fire in the middle of the table kept us cozy and warm since it was super cold out.
We stayed in a hotel that night and then got up the next morning and went back to Sea World.
We got to see a couple more shows and see the penguins! What majestic animals they are! We pretty much just walked around the park and had a leisurely day. We stopped at some of the pretty Christmas decos they had around the park and took some pictures. I love my parents SO much! I'm so grateful that we get along and have such a great time together.




We got to pet stars and urchins in the tide pools!

We got to pet stingrays too!
It was so much fun!