Monster Splash Event

We went to the Miami Seaquarium on Biscayne Bay in Miami today for the "Monster Splash" Halloween event that started at 5pm.

Here we saw a dolphin and whale show, Skyler liked the dolphins. There are 4 arenas for shows at this park, we went into 3 of them by the end of the night.

The whale...he would purposely splash the crowd. people in the splash zone (going up pretty far maybe 6 rows) got completely wet.

After 5 the Halloween event started. It was HUGE. The entire park had elaborate decorations everywhere. In the front of the park was a "fall festival" area, with lots of hay. Shayna and Skyler each decorated a pumpkin. They really enjoyed this:

Artists concentrating:

There were some games like this:

Skyler just walked up and put them in the holes:

There were 2 "haunted houses" one for younger kids and one for older kids, we went into/through both. Skyler learned how to do a fake scream. Shayna said it was the least scary of the haunted houses - the scariest being the one at Snipes Farm last year (we were alone in there and it was an old falling apart looking barnhouse), with Sugar Sand park's haunted train ride a close second. There were 2 7th grade girls behind us, who went in front of us and were screaming hysterically the whole time, almost knocking down the one girls mother as they clung to her...since they were right in front of us, they got all the scares and made it not as scary for shayna. then there was a dad with a daughter around shayna's age who was pushing her into the scary guys while she yelled "stop it!" or 'thats enough!" thought they were part of the act at first. The scary guys would high 5 skyler, and he was not scared at all. The most original prop was the hanging blow up dummies you had to walk through- we discussed this the next day (shayna and I) and thought it was quite comical.

They also had trick or treating throughout the park.

The grand finale was a very festive show in Flipper stadium with festive dance music- led by Beetlejuice, Freddy Kreuger, the Wolfman, and Jason. The Beetlejuice guy looked and sounded exactly like Beetlejuice. It was a lot of fun. It reminded me of the shows at Universal Studios or at a resort like Beaches, where you are so enthralled and having so much fun. Then the final dolphin show- very theatrical show and there were dancers in glow in the dark skeleten wetsuits. It all ended with fireworks.

It was a very lively and festive halloween event...there were a LOT of people there, and more then 50% in costumes.

we were more impressed with the halloween event then the park itself, although did not see 2 of the walk through areas since by the time we got to them they were setting up the haunted houses which were in those areas. The nicest area is where they do the dolphin swims, it looks like a hotel and is very classy looking, with cushioned iron chairs- the kind you see at fancy resort lobbys and a pretty pool.