Sea lions, tiger sharks and polar bears, oh my!

We LOVE Sea World! Every year they let active duty military into their parks for free one day. I had heard that they do a very fun Christmas time so we took full advantage of our free day there. The shows are so much fun and the kids really liked seeing the live animals.

They had a snow wall by the polar bears and walrus tanks, my kids first chance at touching ice!
Zach got a kick out of the manta rays petting tank. He really liked playing in the water, but getting flipped with a ray fin was exciting too. Gracie was too scared to pet them. They are so smooth and they were very friendly.

The merry-go-round is all sea animals, we had to ride it a couple of times so we could ride all the different fish.

They also had a Polar Express display, Zach could have stayed by the train all day. It was only for pictures though, but they did have a big boat the kids could play on and we spent a lot of time on that. They also had a huge net play structure that they kids just had to go on, so Stuart and I were crawling all around, I'm sure we looked pretty funny. The grown ups also took a time out to do the big roller coasters they have. Wow, they were really fun!! It was such a fun day and let me just say again that we are so lucky to live where there is so much to do! And I am so impressed with the Busch Gardens group for honoring the military, Stuart works so hard for our family and loves serving his country and it was so fun sharing this together as a family.