- 3:38 PM, Tuesday,
June 25th, 2019:
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- 430 entries ago we
first took the kids to the zoo and I was torn. Well,
duh, here, read it:
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- As you can see,
after my time in Africa, I found it nearly impossible
to support zoos or any animal captivity other than
helping injured animals get back to their habitats.
I think we only went twice on our season pass and
never re-upped. It should also be noted that however
strong in convictions that may seem, it was
legitimately because that zoo is straight the fuck up
hill on the side of a mountain and it SUCKS
WITH KIDS. I don't know how people do it more
than once.
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- Anyway, while we
were in San Diego, Jimmy and Kaylyn thought Sea World
would be fun as they have season tickets. As I said in
the 2015 entry, I don't want my personal issues
to keep my kids from seeing a dolphin with their own
eyes and someday I'll take them on safari and
hopefully they'll agree with me that these places suck
and we never have to go. While they're super-little
I at least want to expose them to it. As well
Sea World got SHELLACKED by the Black Water
documentary and I was quite curious how they stayed in
business after that. Clearly some things had to have
changed. More about that after the
video...
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- As you could see,
very hard to do my usual voice-over since the kids
love these videos and I'm just not ready to have
THIS conversation with them.
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- But also as you
can see? They had fun jumping around and riding
rides... the "sea" aspect felt pretty secondary.
That's certainly the first change I noticed: it's
more ride centered. And the other
beat-you-over-the-head aspect is that there's a
constant focus on education. Gone is the Orca show
where they jumped around and shit (though they ad no
problem putting a bow-tie on a Sea Lion and making him
jump through hoops - lol), no the Orca show is now
literally the whales swimming while you look at
pictures of them on a big screen.
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- Uhm.
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- Like either do it
or don't do it. I already feel like an asshole for
buying the tickets, now you're gonna make me feel bad
because I expected to see some whales jump? Now
I'm the dick and you're the good guys? How'd that
happen?!
I'm kidding, but it was strange. We were told to skip
over the dolphin show, but we'll check it some other
time as we can go again before the end of the year.
I mean the overall takeaway is that is just seems
like a really shitty rendition of an amusement park.
The employees look miserable, there's no... hate to
say it, but, magic? Wonder? Disney and Universal have
that in droves. Sea World felt depressing to me, but
that could also be me having issues with it
all.
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- Life is pretty
grey.
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- Adam
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