Niagra Falls 2010 - Part 1 - Marineland

We took the family on a little mini-vacation to Niagra Falls before the start of another school year. We were so proud...we did it all on points! We need to save $$ wherever we can with a third baby on the way! On our first day, we spent the day at Marineland. Here is Claire and Grandma at the gates.

A photo of the Beluga whales.

The Killer Whale....who later became Claire's least favourite animal at the park.

Some brother and sisterly love in the underground viewing deck.

Grandma and Claire pre-Killer Whale splash.

Now we did not get a photo of this, but basically, we went to the "Killer Whale Splash show". Daddy had Claire on his shoulders and Isaac and I hung out in the back - away from the deck and sun. The killer whale was performing his show and suddenly he went under the water and when he came back up, Daddy thought that the rising fin was just waving hello, but nope, it smacked water right into the crowd and poor Claire got the worst of it. She was so upset and completely soaked. Thank god we brought a change of clothes! This is all she would talk about the rest of the day! Daddy was wet too but otherwise fine.

We then moved on to feed the fish. This calmed her down.

A close-up of the fish. They were HUGE!

More brother and sisterly love as we had lunch before the dolphin and seal show (we sat up high this time). We didn't get pictures of the show but Claire really enjoyed this.

And off to the family rides. Claire and Daddy in the boats. It was her first ride!

You can't visit a themepark without trying the ice cream.

After a very long day, we finally got to our hotel. Big brother Isaac showed us what he learned in his recent babysitting course by changing Claire's diaper.

He put the diaper backwards at first. What a rookie mistake!