I didn't think it would take me this long to get around to posting more pictures, but alas life happened. When planning this weekend, even though the whole point of it was to swim with dolphins, I wanted to make it extra fabulous and fun, hoping that soon I'd be pregnant and not able to do any of these things. I thought swimming with a sea lion would be pretty cool and different and I actually had to talk Chris into doing it! We ended up being the only two in the water with 168lb sea lion, Mimi. She was very sweet and lots of fun. It was quite different that swimming with a dolphin, a little more relaxed, and dare I say, almost more fun. With the dolphins, you hang out treading water and wait for the trainer to tell the dolphin to come to you and do whatever behavior. With the sea lion, we were standing and she was hanging out right next to us the whole time and interacted more with us. We did the typical hugs and kisses, but a couple of the more fun things we did were swimming around the enclosure with her and "holding" her in the water. She was cute while we were swimming, if she got too far ahead of us she would look back to make sure we were still there. And my FAVORITE part of the time with her was at the end, we were still in the water and just kind of chatting with the trainer, she was hanging out next to me and randomly gave me a hug, it was so cute! There's not a picture of it, unfortunately, but it made my day. So here are a bunch of pictures of us with her, I don't think many of them are very good of me, which I'm sad about, but there were a couple I liked.
This one is hilarious - Chris looks like he's stalking her!
Here's one of her "checking" on Chris, so cute!
This is me doing the command for "say cheese!"
Chris telling her to do her shark impression
"Holding" her
My favorite picture
She was just told to hug Chris, but she wouldn't stop kissing him!
Then the trainer told had her kiss him on the lips, he had to
wash his mouth before kissing me again!
This is her hug - basically just putting her flippers on us, but still cute.
4 comments:
That looks like so much fun! I'm definitely going to add that to my bucket list!
As you know I will never in a million years say I want to swim with any kind of sea creature, however, I really enjoyed your pictures! The one of the sea lion kissing your cheek is cute. I'm really glad you made Chris wash his mouth after getting kisses from the sea lion!! I'm so glad you guys went and had such an enjoyable vacation!
It looks like you had a blast! I'm so glad! Great pictures.
So SO cute! I love sea lions too. Adorable!
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