After a frolicking Day 3 at Safari Park, K-bao reacquainted herself with San Diego's famed Sea World on Day 4. It's been a while since her last visit, and this time she had a sister to show around.
The first order of business of course was to get properly oriented.
"I see an ice-cream stand about six minutes away, how about you?"
At Dolphin Theater, K-bao convinces a trainer to let her feed a dolphin (happily, sister C-bao got to participate too, tossing what turned out to be the last piece of fish).
It's hard to imagine that K-bao still remembered Shamu from her last visit. Either way, she got to see him up close and personal this time.
Indeed, while the family parked themselves safely outside the Splash Zone during Shamu's show, K-bao requested permission to run down to get closer to Shamu. Of course, the real motivation was to get thoroughly soaked. Mission accomplished.
Sea World actually has a few relatively solid roller coasters. K-bao is a pro at this point with roller coasters, but even this old hand had a few scary moments during her ride on The Manta.
Here she is getting ready for one of the other main rides, Journey to Atlantis.
"I like big splashes and I cannot lie"
The classic cheap iPhone retake
After a full day, K-bao returned to an old favorite, The Old Spaghetti Factory in the Gaslamp.
Predictably, dinner was heavy, greasy, and delicious.
The K-family took a trip out to Lands End over the weekend with good friends Chris and Dave (who was visiting for the weekend from NY). Incidentally, K-bao has been a big fan of Chris ("Krih! Krih!") for some time, and also took quickly to Dave ("Day! Day!") as well. As the K-folks have noted with alarm, she tends to like the boys.
During the trip K-bao got to ride in her hiking backpack, otherwise known as her palanquin /royalty carrier (bequeathed to her by Phat Baby Photographer's family some months ago). From this vantage point she would alternatively tug on K-Pop's ears, sway from side to side while shouting "ABCDEFG" at the top of her lungs, pretend she was sitting in a swing and rock forward and backwards vigorously, or whisper in K-Pop's ear "pao-pao" (run! run!) as if she were Mr. Jakes urging Black Beauty to go faster.
K-Pop is paying for it in his sore calves now but the beautiful views, fresh air and good company were well worth it. At one point our little group even saw a family of dolphins swimming in the Bay.
