Whales, Seals & Cousins

It's been crazy hot here in San Diego and we have been doing everything to beat the heat. We are in the pool everyday and making good use of our fans. Last Friday we braved the heat and headed out to Sea World to spend a day with Maya and Sahara's cousins.

Here's a great shot of the crew. From left: Nader, Milani, Dominic, Polar Bear, Sahara, Maya and Christopher. The only one missing is baby Gianna.

Here she is....

Highlights from our day include feeding the bat rays. These creatures feel like slippery rubber. Pretty weird. They eat fish right out of your hand.

Maya and Sahara were fascinated by the bat rays. They even held out a fish to feed them.

Here's a whole bunch of them coming in for some fish.

Another shot of the twins in action.

We got to see Shamu and friends at the Believe show. The girls kept on telling me that they were Shamu as they swam around the pool later that day. Pretty cute.

Here's the Elmo flying fish ride in the newly opened Sesame Street themed play area. Sahara begged to go on this ride the past couple of visits to Sea World, so we finally took her. Once the ride started she freaked out and tucked herself into her father as far as she could. So you can't see her in this picture, but she is hiding next to her daddy. Maya on the other hand kept on hitting the control lever to go up and down in the air.

Here's Sahara checking out the turtles. The girls can't get enough of turtles.

Other highlights from our day that I didn't get photos of were the star fish touch and feel exhibit, the feeding of the seals and the aquarium exhibits that were full of color and over sized fish.

We had a really fun day and the girls slept the whole ride home.

Coming soon....Maya and Sahara swimming like fish.

Sea World San Diego

I had forgotten how wonderful Sea World is. This past Friday Nader played hooky and took me and the girls on an adventure. The highlights include watching Orcas jump clear out of the water, getting up close to dolphins, sea otters, seals, penguins, polar bears, manatees and sharks. Here are a few pictures of our day..

Family photo.

Behind Maya there are two polar bears. Excuse my liberal application of sun screen. You never can be too safe from the suns damaging rays.

Here's a better shot of the Polar Bears.

Shamu jumping out of the water. Wow !!!

Beluga whales catching lunch.

Sharks !!!

Since Nader accidentally broke our digital camera today it may be a while until our next posting. We are leaving to Greece in about a week and I am hoping to have both our video camera and digital camera repaired before we leave. Wish me luck.