[Amelie:] Aquatica 3

On Tuesday we went to Aquatica. We got there so early that they weren't ready yet, so me and mummy went to see the Commerson's dolphins. They weren't playing around that much, and after a while we went back to daddy and Benjamin who were still in the queue. We waited a little while there until they opened the gates, and then we got a really good spot to sit.

Me and Ben had a little play in Kookaburra Cove.

After we'd played on a flume daddy came back and told us there were some really good flumes that we could go on, do we went to go and find them. We went on the lazy river with inflatables, and then there were some steps which led to the flumes called Tassie's Twisters, that needed inflatables. We went up the stairs, there was a pretty long queue, maybe 10 minutes, but we kept waiting until we were at the top! We put our inflatables down, Benjamin went in the front and daddy went in the back, and I went in the front and mummy went in the back, and then we went down a little bit, and then we went around a bowl shape really quickly. I think I only went about twice with mummy, but I think I went around five times with daddy (on my second ride), and that's a family record.

Straightaway afterwards we went to Walhalla Wave, and we went up the steps, and that was quite a long queue. When it was our turn we got onto an inflatable; it was a really big one, and it could fit four people in it! The ride was really fast, we went really high up on the edge, and then we went back down; and sometimes it was dark and it went down and there was water coming on us. And we did this one twice. After that we we went in a little play water fun area, we explored first of all and then we went down lots of flumes. When we were with Daddy we rescues a cicada, we used Daddy's sunglasses to take it out of the water and I went to show Mummy. He then flew away. Then we went to do the Whanau Way slides but we coudn't because of incoming weather. Then we went in the wave pool but only for a short time as then that closed because of the weather. 

Then we went home and I was a bit sleepy and then we went to SeaWorld. We went to see the Dolphin nursery, with a baby dolphin, that was 2 months old. Then we went to do an Artic ride that shook you around, a lot. Then we saw some beluga whales, then some polar bears - an actual real polar bear, that was brillant - then we saw a walrus. They have to make these animals feel like they were at home, so it was really cold, with real ice.

Then we went to the Shamu show, we we were sitting at the back this time. The orcas were doing lots of jumping about and flicking everyone with their tails with water, not us this time, it was great. 

Then we went home.