Sea World - Day 5

Twice a week Mickey and Minnie Mouse come from DisneyWorld to make a special visit to Give Kids the World.  All girls were quite excited to go this morning and see them.  Cicily has been talking about wearing her dress that looks like Minnie's to meet Minnie Mouse for months!  This was her BIG chance and she was extremely happy about it!  Minnie Mouse even noticed Cicily's dress and liked it - which made Cis even more happy!

At GKTW the famous mice can autograph whatever you want.  We took all the girls' Minnie shirts and they kindly autographed them.  They also autographed the shoes on the cute Mickey that GKTW gave Cis when we arrived. 

Today was our Sea World day.  When we arrived only Maya knew who Shamu was.  When we left, Sophie couldn't stop saying "Shamuuu".

First we went to the Shamu show.  We got some treats and were hooked up with some perfect seats. 

I believe this is supposed to be the Mom and baby.  They're "kissing".  I'm pretty sure Orca whales don't really kiss like this, but it's still cute nontheless, especially if you're a Mom watching the show with your 3 girls!

Cicily was the only one of the 3 brave enough to grab the fish and toss it to feed the sea lions and seals.  I doesn't look like it in this picture, but she really did like it!  With Cis' magic GKTW badge, we got to feed the sea lions, seals, sharks, rays, and dolphins.  It was pretty cool!!

When I asked the workers who gave me the fish what we actually do they said, "basically just protect your children from the birds".  There were huge, rather agressive, water birds coming at us for their share of the fish we were feeding the sea lions.  I got pecked by one, and tried unsuccessfully to convice Maya it wasn't even as big a deal as a chicken peck.  Whatever fish the sea lions ended up with, they seemed to enjoy!

This was a pretty awesome fish tank you could walk into.  Quite a cool feeling to be surrounded by fish and not be wet!!

FEEDING THE DOLPHINS!  This had to be the coolest part of Sea World.  Cis again was the only one of the little girls who would hold the fish and feed and boy did she enjoy it!!  I tried to get Sophie to pet the dolphin under it's nose and she absolutely refused.  I thought it was kinda weird since she's pretty adventurous, then I realized their mouths do gape open with a fair number of pretty sharp teeth!

There was of course, a nice Sea World employee who stuck by us to make sure we got the most out of the experience.  She did some kind of hand sign and the dolphins would swim up onto this ledge so the girls could pet them.  Maya did dare to pet the dolphin without the teeth threatening.  These are Maya's, Cicily's and Daddy's hands petting the dolphin named Lilly.

The girls watching the same dolphins from an underground viewing spot. 

Since Cicily hasn't wanted to buy hardly any souvenirs for herself, but LOVES buying souvenirs for others, she bought Sophie this cute dolphin.  Here is Cicily happily and lovingly giving the dolphin to Sophie.  And here is Sophie greedily grabbing it out of Cicily's hands (can we claim she was just exhausted?).

  Just like the other parks, Sea World really took care of us.  All the kind special treatment really has made for a wonderful wish trip for Cis.