Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat

How fun is this!?! We went to the Mirage on the strip and saw dolphins and lions and tigers...but no bears...ha-ha...okay-ANYWAY! One of my friends from the ward is able to get discounted tickets to the Siegfried and Roy Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat and so we went today. Yes, I'm blogging about it the very same day we went! Way to go me! So, this picture is Annaka not so sure about the dolphins. They can come super close to you...enough so that you could literally reach out and touch them if you were allowed to. It was exciting and within 5 minutes of us being there a dolphin came right up in front of us unto the wall and flipped over on it's back like it wanted a belly rub! So cool. After this Annaka wanted me to hold her if we werent walking, and she clung to me and would sometimes turn her head to see the dolphins. It was pretty funny.
See how close they are!


This was the small pool...they have 2 more. one main pool to the left of this video and one for research and births...One dolphin was very pregnant, very large...I could relate.
Here she is clinging to me...I guess we arent quite ready for Sea World :) I could watch the dolphins all day though.


You can go under to see the dophins in their tanks. Annaka liked that much better...she knew they couldnt eat her through the glass...
She liked to watch the dolphins through the glass though :)


I liked to watch the dolphins under the water too...

Annaka was having a great time being independent walking instead of sitting in her stroller...it made for more work on my part, but she was still pretty easy.


After we watched the dolphins for some time we went to Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and saw:

A lion. (He was beautiful...NOT like the ones we saw in Africa at all...I should post a picture of one of our African lions we saw on our safari)

Look at this guy, he reminds me of the lion on Narnia
A leapord...which we NEVER saw on our safari...hard to come by
A black panther like the one on Jungle Book...hard to see in the picture, sorry!
Annaka eating some M&M's (thanks amber). I just liked the mossy tiger in the back or maybe it's a lion, we did see a white lion that we thought was a tiger at first....

This ones a tiger...their were several there, but I never got a very good picture of any of them because they were all sleeping.


The three little ladies enjoying a girls day out :) Such cuties!! (they are all the oldest, 'only childs' so far and get along great!)


My one and only...but NOT FOR LONG!!! Enjoying it while she can...


It was just so relaxing and beautiful...to think in the middle of the strip you find dolphins and lions and tigers and beautiful plants and flowers...it was wonderful!




After Annaka saw the dolphins interact with people she liked them much more...at least she didn't cling to me like at the beginning. She actually was getting pretty giddy and waving at them. So I thought we should try to get a picture of us again. Of course she was being all silly...

We finally got one!