Carrying on with our amazing day at Sea World! 
After the carousel, we made our way over to check out some other kid rides. I really didn't know that Sea World even had rides...I don't remember that from my visit to San Diego as a kid. Anyway, we found some steel drums for Max and Owen to bang on for a bit - sometimes with a juicy hanging from their mouth.
Max has a love for drumming in a big way - particularly since he found his uncle Mike's drums in Papa D's garage a while back.
We went on this crazy boat ride that twirls and spins and goes up and down. I was positive it would make me nauseous - and it did. But we had a great time anyway. Guess who else liked it - MAX! Okay, I'm not sure he liked it. I think he was in a heat coma at that point and wasn't really reacting to anything.
But man did we react! T.Rex and JayMoo in da hizouse!
See Max down by my stomach. He was just drinking some juice and chillin.
So after that ride was over we headed into the very cool arctic house to learn about what would become one of Max's favorite animals so far. But first, the Beluga dolphin/whale (what is that thing?)
If felt amazing in here. Whoever said it was a good idea to go to Sea World in August in Florida was really fooling themselves.
Max and mama, learning about the cold, snow and ice...getting Max ready to go back to Chicago for the shock of his life.
Max's new favorite animal!!! WALRUS! Max said there with bug eyes saying "wall reese" over and over and over and over. "More wall reese?" He loved this big tub of lard.
Owen and Max, enthralled.
Seriously, he couldn't take his eyes of the walrus. He would later say walrus over and over for the next few days.
And finally it was Shamu time baby. By now Max was pretty tired, but he still had enough juice (both metaphoric and real juice) to enjoy a 45 minute killer whale show.
Yo mama - check it out! Thems whales is crazy!
And then he was pretty much done. We gave him the rest of his cheetos to polish off and he collapsed into the stroller. It was raining a bit and we were sure that we'd be leaving.
I mean - how do you force a precious face like this into standing around any longer?
Well, me and T.Rex - we jerks like that. We really wanted to go on the Manta roller coaster. Right when we got there it closed for technical difficulties and lightening. Before we knew it, we were first in line! How could we leave when we had this amazing chance???
With my hair I was BARELY tall enough to go on the ride...another sign that this just had to be!
Sorry Owen, you don't quite make it yet. Maybe next year.
And then we waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. They said it was for lightening, but the skies were basically blue for 40 minutes while we stood there. We held our ground. We knew the second we stepped out of that line, the ride would start. And that is EXACTLY what happened. But the people were nice enough to let us back in - mostly because we had crazy cute kids running around and wives who had suffered a long time just so we could ride the roller coaster.
VICTORY!!!! And we were offffffffffffff!!!!
And it was amazing! We got the last row for the mad-G-force and crazy turns. It was super rad and a ride of the century...very much like Superman at Six Flags. You go Sea World.
After the carousel, we made our way over to check out some other kid rides. I really didn't know that Sea World even had rides...I don't remember that from my visit to San Diego as a kid. Anyway, we found some steel drums for Max and Owen to bang on for a bit - sometimes with a juicy hanging from their mouth.
Max has a love for drumming in a big way - particularly since he found his uncle Mike's drums in Papa D's garage a while back.
We went on this crazy boat ride that twirls and spins and goes up and down. I was positive it would make me nauseous - and it did. But we had a great time anyway. Guess who else liked it - MAX! Okay, I'm not sure he liked it. I think he was in a heat coma at that point and wasn't really reacting to anything.
But man did we react! T.Rex and JayMoo in da hizouse!
See Max down by my stomach. He was just drinking some juice and chillin.
So after that ride was over we headed into the very cool arctic house to learn about what would become one of Max's favorite animals so far. But first, the Beluga dolphin/whale (what is that thing?)
If felt amazing in here. Whoever said it was a good idea to go to Sea World in August in Florida was really fooling themselves.
Max and mama, learning about the cold, snow and ice...getting Max ready to go back to Chicago for the shock of his life.
Max's new favorite animal!!! WALRUS! Max said there with bug eyes saying "wall reese" over and over and over and over. "More wall reese?" He loved this big tub of lard.
Owen and Max, enthralled.
Seriously, he couldn't take his eyes of the walrus. He would later say walrus over and over for the next few days.
And finally it was Shamu time baby. By now Max was pretty tired, but he still had enough juice (both metaphoric and real juice) to enjoy a 45 minute killer whale show.
Yo mama - check it out! Thems whales is crazy!
And then he was pretty much done. We gave him the rest of his cheetos to polish off and he collapsed into the stroller. It was raining a bit and we were sure that we'd be leaving.
I mean - how do you force a precious face like this into standing around any longer?
Well, me and T.Rex - we jerks like that. We really wanted to go on the Manta roller coaster. Right when we got there it closed for technical difficulties and lightening. Before we knew it, we were first in line! How could we leave when we had this amazing chance???
With my hair I was BARELY tall enough to go on the ride...another sign that this just had to be!
Sorry Owen, you don't quite make it yet. Maybe next year.
And then we waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. They said it was for lightening, but the skies were basically blue for 40 minutes while we stood there. We held our ground. We knew the second we stepped out of that line, the ride would start. And that is EXACTLY what happened. But the people were nice enough to let us back in - mostly because we had crazy cute kids running around and wives who had suffered a long time just so we could ride the roller coaster.
VICTORY!!!! And we were offffffffffffff!!!!
And it was amazing! We got the last row for the mad-G-force and crazy turns. It was super rad and a ride of the century...very much like Superman at Six Flags. You go Sea World.Then we headed home. Max slept the entire way back to Fort Lauderdale. So cute. While we know he will forget this day, we'll always have pictures to prove it when we can't afford to take him later in life. Sucka!
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maxers has the best life.
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