So, I’ve finally got around to documenting the last couple of days. It may not be a strictly accurate report as the memories are fading, but I can remember the highlights.
Thursday April 17th is Kayleigh’s official 5th birthday, having enjoyed her un-birthday at Epcot yesterday. Against all odds, yesterday Mrs Dad’s-Taxi managed to buy a Frozen princess dress, and so lucky Kayleigh gets exactly what she asked the Birthday-Fairy for. Phew!
Today’s destination is SeaWorld, so off we trundle in the van for a reasonably well-planned day. The first stop is Shamu Stadium to see the new show. We actually get there too early, the doors aren’t open yet, but it’s not a long wait and then the dash to get decent seats commences. We don’t do particularly well in the scrum, and considering how early we arrived I’m disappointed at how far back we are sat, but it’s still a good view. In 2012 I reported that the when recruiting for the Shamu show, adverts for whale trainers must say “must have masters degree in marine biology. Good rhythm and dancing experience essential”, but this new show has thankfully become less of a demonstration of the singing and dancing talents (I use the term kindly) of the marine biologists and more a showcase of the talented whales. The show was in its infancy in April so there were still some creases needed ironing out, but overall it was a big success. One thing I did notice was that the whales were more inclined to perform to the right side of the stadium (from the audience’s viewpoint). I expect this has been addressed now but at our show far more enthusiasm was shown by the whales that were furthest from our seats! Typical.
As always I took lots of photos, most of which turned out to be of plumes of water showing where a whale had just landed! This is one of the better ones:
We did all the usual stuff. The Blue Horizons show was as brilliant as ever,
Although unfortunately the huge bird that flies over the audience was off on sick-leave, which was a shame as we had sat top left of the stadium to get the full effect as it flew over from just behind our seats.
Despite knowing every joke in the Clyde and Seamore show, it is a compulsory trip so we can see what the mime guy is up to.
He never fails to have us rolling with laughter, and on this occasion we saw a new (to us) trick where he stole a baseball cap from a guy several rows back in the audience, does all the usual threats to dunk it in the pool, then threw the cap Frisbee-style into the audience where it landed on the owner’s head! Impressive. The Clyde and Seamore Take Pirate Island show has now ended, so I hope the mime returns as a warm-up act at another show soon.
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