O HAI. You know how it is when it’s December and you fall behind in everything and then you don’t update your blog until the end of January? Yeah. That.
So last week we went to Sea World for what might be the last time. Sea World is an expensive day, but they offer educational days for homeschoolers (and school-schoolers) where we can get in for only $6 a ticket. So I demanded that my friend Yara schedule us a trip and she complied and it was all set up. Shortly after we committed to it, I saw this story (FYI: there are graphic images in that story). I’ve long had some issues with Sea World that I’ve been able to ignore, but I don’t know if I can ignore them anymore. Not just because the orca was injured, but because Sea World’s story doesn’t seem to add up, and even if it were true, it’s sure not any better than PETA’s guess.
All that aside, we had a good day. We spent the day with people we don’t always get to see and we got to meet some new friends.
I hear ya on the Sea World thing. Sigh. We’ll go one more time at least, when my mom and niece are here in April/May, but we will get in for free, so there’s that. After that I think we’ll stick to aquaria. (Is that the actual plural of “aquarium”? I think it’s probably “aquariums” in popular use, but if I can’t be snooty on a homeschooling blog, where can I? Hahaha.)
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