Dave knows a trainer that still works at Marine World from when he was there so the boys were excited for a behind the scenes and special show with Shouka the Whale. We arrived at the park just before lunch and our tour guide Garrett read the map to lead the way!
We grabbed lunch and rode a few rides prior to going to see the Shouka show.
The shark exhibit was a huge favorite of both boys. Riding the moving sidewalk through the exhibit was way too fun. I think we went through ten times.
We head over to the show, went in the back way to meet up with Dave's friend and we were seated in the "VIP" section! The blue section in the picture above. This is the area Shouka does her slide outs and NEVER splashes!!! Well, quite the VIP treatment - on the second command the trainer was off in throwing the ice for Shouka to go after and lets just say we were surprised there was any water left in the pool because we were absolutely SOAKED!!! The boys let out screaming cries of fear and the show was over for us. Get me out of there with my two screaming scared boys! Not to mention Dave had our video camera out and the entire soak fest was on film, well so we hoped! Our camera is completely out of commission. I was almost in tears because we hadn't back up the camera since Gannon was born. This almost completely ruined the trip for me. The thought that our film was all gone. Hard drive cameras are great, but not when they get wet. No disk or tape to remove. (see below for results) Anyway, after the show the trainer apologized and brought Shouka out to apologize in person. Garrett and Gannon were still SO scared that they didn't want anything to do with petting Shouka. They do now talk about how Shouka came out and said sorry. See below. I don't think they are traumatized for life.
Good thing we had brought water clothes for the boys, they needed a change after the Shouka Show! Off to play in some intended for play water. Garrett was in heaven playing in the fountains.
Right next to the fountain was Gannon's heaven - the helicopter ride! He must have gone on it 4 times while Garrett played in the water.
Gannon finally fell asleep for a much needed rest and hey I figured I lay down on the park bench too!
Mommy just couldn't visit an amusement park without squeezing a ride or two in so the boys played in the misters while I was on a ride. I really need to go back with someone that will ride all these fun crazy rides with me.
Camera update - Dave researched and found a video camera repair guy in Southern California that would take a look at our camera to see what or if anything could be salvaged. He called a few days later and said he cleaned the camera, but it would cost more than a new camera to actually TRY to make it usable, but for $150 he could get it working to at least download the footage that was on it!!! What a bargain for priceless footage. He said just plug it into the computer through it's docking station and we should be able to get the files. Sure enough the camera doesn't work, but we were able to get our files off and transferred to disks!!! Thank God for this I would have been SUPER devastated if we lost all that precious film..
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