Day Twelve - Harrison in our Pool!

So the plan for today was to return to SeaWorld to do the attractions that we missed yesterday. In an attempt to avoid the hottest part of the day, we decided to have a relaxing morning and lunch here at the villa before heading off around 15:30ish.

We didn't see Harrison until 11am and then as has become his normal morning routine, he had a bath. By the time he appeared again Bernard was in the pool and asked me to persuade Harrison to join him. Somehow I did, and a reluctant teenager got kitted out in his wetsuit and slowly made his way to the patio door. The door's alarmed and it gives you 10 seconds to exit / enter and close it again.

He approached the pool and tentatively went down the steps into the shallow end. 

He sat on the top step for a while before deciding to try and walk the length of the pool. 

The deep end is five foot deep and I can't touch the bottom without my head going under. 

Harrison discovered that if you keep right against the wall, it's shallower. He walked up and down the pool a few times and also sat on the ledge at the deep end. 

The boys looked like they were having way too much fun so I had to join them!  We had a lovely time together and Harrison's confidence in the water was growing rapidly. 

We were sitting chatting together on the ledge when our neighbours, General and Barb, came out to plant their cucumber plants and photograph an enormous black and yellow spider.  We chatted to them for a while but time was pressing on so I asked Harrison to get out of the water to prepare for lunch. After so much trouble to get him in there, he didn't want to come out!  As he was so keen, we had to let him have a bit more time in the water. It was a shame that it had taken him so long to have the courage to try the pool. Hopefully he'll remember how much he enjoyed it today so that when we come again he'll use the pool from day one. 

After lunch we headed off to SeaWorld. As we drove down towards the I-4 we looked across in the direction of SeaWorld and the sky didn't look too good. The closer we got to the park, the darker it got. By the time we reached the car park, the rain was pouring down and already pooling.  We sat in the car listening to a radio doctor solving callers ailments over the air but the rain just wouldn't stop. The forecaster was predicting another 45 minutes of heavy rain before any breaks in the cloud. People were leaving the park absolutely drenched and shivering. We decided that we'd return to the villa and pack so that we could try SeaWorld again tomorrow.