~Long Overdue~ Seven Seas Food Festival

Wow, this blog has been severely neglected. I promise that I haven't been leaving Ted alone in the cupboard; I've actually been taking him out occasionally but I never got around to actually posting the resulting pictures. This last April we went to SeaWorld for my birthday because of their Seven Seas food festival and also because we hadn't been in so long.

I smell fish!

Ted made some flamingo friends as we tracked down where to purchase tickets for the food festival.

A coaster over the water? That'll be a double no.

 First up on the menu was a crab cake from the Caribbean market. It was absolutely stuffed with crab, I didn't think I'd be able to finish it! So Ted jumped in to "help".

As we were wandering around, I got a nice photo of Ted in front of the Sea Lion & Otter Theater.

We tried the shrimp and lobster mac n' cheese from the Florida market, but we were...less than enthused about what we got. It was so bland I could barely taste the cheese, let alone the seafood. So I went back and got some conch fritters, which were amazing!

 

Now this is more like it.

We stopped by the shark encounter, which seemed to be a popular stop on the food trail outlined by the festival. 

 

 The food portions at the festival were huge, so if we wanted any chance at trying some of the other dishes while still being able to walk at the end of the day, we needed a break. 

SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!!1!!1

We hadn't been able to get into the penguin exhibit since they renovated it. For some reason the people wouldn't let us in without riding the new ride, which they told us was a coaster and my mom can't do thrill rides. Thankfully this is not actually the case and we were able to get in this time through the non-riding entrance.

They were not kidding around when they said it was only 32℉ in there. Although after spending all morning in the hot sun, we were happy to take our time going through the exhibit.

How much farther until we reach the desserts?

We were thoroughly stuffed by the time we reached the end of the trail, and we decided to call it a day.

Bonus stuffies!