Before we left on our trip, while doing "research", I found that Sea World has characters who pose for pictures and do autographs. So I decided to make a little autograph book for Harvey to collect them in.
I just bought a cheap (I think it was like a dollar) photo album at Michael's and scrapbooked an album cover, then replaced the old one. For the inside, I bought 4x6 index cards - without the lines, and we took them to Sea World with us. When I finally get around to printing the pictures of Harvey and his "friends", I'll slide them opposite their signature. Here's the Elmo page, without the picture (man, I'm a slacker!).
Anyway, after I spent my time making that sucker, you'd better believe we stood in line to get a few autographs!
Harvey's favorites were Elmo, and Shamu...
Harvey had two favorite shows. While all of the animals and people were fabulous in the other shows, I kind of agreed with him. His two favorites were thoroughly entertaining. He liked the Sea Lions. Their show was silly, funny, and Harvey loved how loud those Sea Lions barked at the crowd. We both couldn't believe that this guy (was he Semore, or Clyde?) jumped off the ledge right above where it says Stage Door. Wow!
I guess I had low expectations because I thought of these animals as uncoordinated, but they did all sorts of cool tricks!
We liked them so much, we went to the night show where they did more tricks while making fun of all of the other shows at Sea World. It was hilarious.
Harvey's other favorite show was the 4D Sesame Street show. He loved getting squirted with water, feeling the heat of the desert, and watching bubbles fall from the ceiling. (You can tell how much he loved posing for pictures...)
Speaking of Sesame Street, we spent lots of time in their Bay of Play riding the kiddo-friendly rides.
We started off strong...
But both got dizzy pretty fast. :)
Then it was Daddy's turn..
This picture just cracks me up... Jud looks like this is the best ride he's ever been on. But I'm glad he made it special for little Harvey, because that little boy was in heaven going on the "cool rides" with his daddy.
My mom, aunt and cousins came the second day to hang with us, but the timing never really worked out perfectly for us to spend a ton of time together. They wanted to see shows that we had already seen, so we saw some attractions together, split to see shows, then tried to meet up again. Needless to say, I didn't get many pictures of them and us.
The whole time we were there we used souvenirs as bait for good behavior. Plus I didn't want to haul all our stuff around all day. Although, we did let him pick out a smashed penny earlier on. He wanted something with a SHARK on it...
My mom got him a stuffed Shamu (oops no pic) and we spent forever in the gift shop asking him what he wanted from Justin and I. He just didn't seem that attached to anything at all... until he saw the swords. Glowing swords. And he was fixated. I really didn't want to spend 5 bucks on some cheap, plastic sword that would probably break before we even got home, but when I asked him to pick something else he started crying. Hard. So we gave in and bought that sword. And then Bryanna wanted one.
In his defense, that sword has seen lots of playtime. But in my defense... it is broken.
I just bought a cheap (I think it was like a dollar) photo album at Michael's and scrapbooked an album cover, then replaced the old one. For the inside, I bought 4x6 index cards - without the lines, and we took them to Sea World with us. When I finally get around to printing the pictures of Harvey and his "friends", I'll slide them opposite their signature. Here's the Elmo page, without the picture (man, I'm a slacker!).
Anyway, after I spent my time making that sucker, you'd better believe we stood in line to get a few autographs!
Harvey had two favorite shows. While all of the animals and people were fabulous in the other shows, I kind of agreed with him. His two favorites were thoroughly entertaining. He liked the Sea Lions. Their show was silly, funny, and Harvey loved how loud those Sea Lions barked at the crowd. We both couldn't believe that this guy (was he Semore, or Clyde?) jumped off the ledge right above where it says Stage Door. Wow!
I guess I had low expectations because I thought of these animals as uncoordinated, but they did all sorts of cool tricks!
We liked them so much, we went to the night show where they did more tricks while making fun of all of the other shows at Sea World. It was hilarious.
Harvey's other favorite show was the 4D Sesame Street show. He loved getting squirted with water, feeling the heat of the desert, and watching bubbles fall from the ceiling. (You can tell how much he loved posing for pictures...)
Speaking of Sesame Street, we spent lots of time in their Bay of Play riding the kiddo-friendly rides.
We started off strong...
But both got dizzy pretty fast. :)
Then it was Daddy's turn..
This picture just cracks me up... Jud looks like this is the best ride he's ever been on. But I'm glad he made it special for little Harvey, because that little boy was in heaven going on the "cool rides" with his daddy.
My mom, aunt and cousins came the second day to hang with us, but the timing never really worked out perfectly for us to spend a ton of time together. They wanted to see shows that we had already seen, so we saw some attractions together, split to see shows, then tried to meet up again. Needless to say, I didn't get many pictures of them and us.
The whole time we were there we used souvenirs as bait for good behavior. Plus I didn't want to haul all our stuff around all day. Although, we did let him pick out a smashed penny earlier on. He wanted something with a SHARK on it...
My mom got him a stuffed Shamu (oops no pic) and we spent forever in the gift shop asking him what he wanted from Justin and I. He just didn't seem that attached to anything at all... until he saw the swords. Glowing swords. And he was fixated. I really didn't want to spend 5 bucks on some cheap, plastic sword that would probably break before we even got home, but when I asked him to pick something else he started crying. Hard. So we gave in and bought that sword. And then Bryanna wanted one.
In his defense, that sword has seen lots of playtime. But in my defense... it is broken.
Ammon got a sword like that from his uncle when he went to Disneyland, and it was very loved and got a lot of playtime before it broke. It's annoying that they can be so expensive and break so quickly, but at least they are loved while they last right? Thanks for sharing all the cute pictures.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you had so much fun. I love the Elmo picture. At first glance, it looked like Elmo was eating Harvey's head. HA HA!
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