{"id":2968,"date":"2008-02-10T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/02\/sea-world-and-mardi-gras\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T15:21:00","slug":"seaworld-and-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2008\/02\/seaworld-and-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea World and Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4255-790414-790503.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4255-790414-790493.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4258-790569-790645.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4258-790569-790639.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4260-790703-790781.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4260-790703-790766.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4273-790852-790937.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4273-790852-790925.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4276-791058-791133.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/02\/IMG_4276-791058-791124.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday was Sea World day and the Mardi Gras. Tamasin described it as follows in her diary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today we went to Sea World. Sea World is joined up with Discovery Cove (the place with the dolphins). Sea World was really cool. They had a roller coaster (it was easy but fun) and a water ride. I got so wet I had to buy a new top. There was loads of shows, including a dolphin and whale show, an otter and sea lion one, one nothing to do with animals but called itself a circus, another with big massive killer whales (we got soaked).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henry said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today was great coz we went to Sea World to go on a few rides and shows and rushed off to the Mardi Gras! I collected 34 beads that you have to catch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was Sea World day and the Mardi Gras. Tamasin described it as follows in her diary: Today we went to Sea World. Sea World is joined up with Discovery Cove (the place with the dolphins). 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