These fish celebrate Christmas as well!

Florida 2011, Day 10, part 2:

The next show we went to was Pets Ahoy show and I was pleasantly surprised to find even the Pets Ahoy stage decorated for Christmas:

I enjoyed the show as well and I love how they take the animals in it from local animal shelters. It’s nice when places like SeaWorld put their shows to good use and rescue dogs and cats (and skunks) that are in need of homes:

When we left Pets Ahoy my mother decided it was food time so she asked me to lead her to a restaurant but on the way I spotted this pair:  

We went to Mango Joes for food. I wasn’t feeling adventurous food wise so got a kids meal:

My mother got a bread bowl with stew:

Over-all we weren’t to impressed at the food there but it filled a hole at least.
After that we headed for Shamu Stadium for the last non Christmas show of the day and of course I took pictures along the way:
 

 We were super early for the show but decided just to hang out near the entrance until they opened it. While we were waiting we were quietly watching what was going on around us. There were ropes across each entrance to the stadium to close them off until show-time and this man decided to go under the rope into the stadium regardless. Then a member of Seaworld staff stopped him inside and asked him to leave he said he just wanted to “check out the seating layout” and refused to leave the stadium it took four Seaworld staff to get him to leave the stadium and then he stood at the entrance with the biggest sulk on his face ever. Rude people aside I was excited about the show though because it was a new show. The last time we had been there in 2010 they had Believe but they had changed the show because of an accident with a trainer and in 2011 it was a whole new show called One Ocean:

After the show we had a bit of time to kill before the next show so we just strolled around looking at the Christmas decorations and at the different shops along the way:

We stopped by the sharks as well:

I decided to go back and get the Santa Shamu I had seen earlier in the day:

Then it was time for the Christmas shows to begin. We decided to queue early for the Christmas Sealion show and a lot of other people had the same idea. We had thought we’d head down and sit on a bench to relax or whatever wasn’t happening when we saw the crowd we got in the queue immediately. We were lucky enough though because we managed to get up close enough to the entrance rope and at about 4.45 the opened the rope and let everyone in. While we were waiting we were watching a group of five or six children behind us playing together and it was really cute none of the children knew each other before lining up. They were all different skin colours and different nationalities and yet all those little kids got on together like they were best friends forever they all had a few games of ring a rosie before they had to go back to their families to enter the stadium. At about 5 to 5 they closed the ropes because the stadium was full so if you weren't there early you weren't getting in to that show.

I was excited because my favourite mime was back out for this show. He was funny he took a little girl out of the audience and got her to hold cue cards up and then he had a sing song with the audience while he conducted:

The best one was that song “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” You know how everyone knows that line and none of the others yeah well apparently the rest of the words are just “blah blah blah blah blah blah it’s the most wonderful time of the year” because that’s what the mime’s cue card said! Clyde and Seamore’s Christmas show didn’t fail to disappoint on the funny side either. It had everything from an elf to Santa:

After that we headed towards the waterfront where people were already picking their spots for the Sea of Trees show. We went down some little steps beside the Spice Mill Café and found a little seating place that not many seemed to have copped yet and waited for the show there. Sea of Trees is probably a bit like Osbourne lights in Disney World in a way. All those shiny trees on the water that I posted above have lights on them and they all dance and change in time to music. It’s quite impressive:

After the show we headed along the Waterfront towards the Christmas market they had taking pics along the way.