Yesterday, I went to Flamingo Land theme park!! My first time in something like seven years! While we were there, we went and watched a sealion show that the park held. It was lots of fun, especially when one of the sealions, Merlin, wouldn't do as he was told and just walked off. Lol! XD Afterwards, I got to do something totally awesome. I went backstage and fed one of the sealions, Miguel (Miguel is amazing <3). He was really gentle, and just followed whoever had the fish. Then, we went out onto the stage and trained the one of the sealions, Marvin, and played with him. I learned the signals for wave, clap and smile. It was fun and surprisingly easy to do the different signals, and Marvin did each one right. Next, I threw some plastic hoops into the water. Marvin caught some of them round his neck, or swam after the other ones. After that, I threw Marvin a ball and he caught it on his nose and balanced it there. The next time I threw it, I threw it into the water and Marvin balanced it on his nose as he swam back. The training session finished with a photo of me and Marvin both sticking our tongues out. Cute!
After the sealions, we had lunch and then went on some rides. We didn't go on any big rollercoasters because two were too scary for me (one of these was the steepest roller coaster in the world, by the way!), we couldn't find the queue for one of them and by the time we'd got to the one I wanted to go on, the queue was closed. :( I did go on some rides though, like the swinging pirate ship and these spinning chair things. But we spend most of the time looking round the zoo, and then we watched another sealion show.
I recorded all of the second show on my Flip camcorder (it died just before the first show but then I had the genius idea of taking the battery pack out of it and putting two AA batteries in instead :P). It was quite funny because they brought Miguel out to do the first half, and he was being really silly and hyper and the trainer was having difficulty keeping him under control. Miguel's final trick was climbing up these steps onto a tower and jumping off. After he had done that that, he was supposed to go backstage, but he instead decided to climb back up the steps and jump off again. XD We also saw Clive, who walked along on his front flippers and jumped up to touch this ball and whatnot. Before he came out, the trainer asked if anyone had seen Clive before and I was the only one who put my hand up. Embarrassing! :$ Anyways, after the second show, we watched the sealions underwater for a bit, then had a last look round everywhere and went home. We spent seven hours at Flamingo Land! :)
I'll be posting the photos and videos soon, but they probably won't include the ones from surfing because they all corrupted. :'(
