Day 1

Sea World

January 13, 2018 · 10 photos · 435 words

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January 12, 2018

Wow...another year, another trip. Denise and I are now traveling with her sister (Michelle) and brother-in-law (Jeff) to Florida and then to the Bahamas on a Cruise on their ship named Liberty. Jeff and Michelle came to Florida on Tuesday evening, arriving to Florida in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday. They did a two day pass to Universal for Wednesday and Thursday. Denise and I got on a plane Thursday night arriving to Orlando at 5 AM Friday. Jeff got the nod to perform his Uber role and pick us up. Not fun for him. Jeff and Michelle had rented a condo in Kissimmee which has 3 bedrooms and a couple of bathrooms. It is nice for what we are doing. Anyway, we crashed for a couple of hours...until about 9 AM. We got up, got dressed and headed out to Sea World for our first adventure.

Sea World turned out to be a nice day. It was slower paced than most theme parks. It had 3 or 4 crazy roller coaster like rides that Michelle and Denise enjoyed. I rode on two of them...enough to get my stomach upset. But the pace is slow because of all the fun sea life shows. I'm always amazed to see what training has been done and how well these sea creatures perform. The killer whale show and the dolphin show were the best. Fun to watch them perform.

The weather was perfect. It was over cast, so the sun was not bearing down on you. It was in the 70's I would guess. It sprinkled rain for about 30 seconds at one point. It could have done more of that and I would have been happy. Tomorrow, it is only supposed to be in the 60's...a bit cooler. We intend to go to Epcot Center. We shall see.

The park closed at 6 PM. We decided to eat at a buffet for dinner. Big mistake. You eat too much and the food is just ok. Nonetheless we did it. We won't do it again.

We came back to the condo, arriving about 8 PM. We visited for about an hour and then Denise and I said 'Adios'...and off to bed we went. We were shot.

It was a really nice day. Fun being with Michelle and Jeff. Denise and Michelle are like two school girls chatting all the way while walking from event to event. They are going to have a lot of fun. Jeff and I, we just walk slowly behind them wondering why we are in these places!

Pictures:

Pretty average distance between the men and the theme park enthusiasts! We were doing what you do at these places...walk and walk and walk, then wait and wait and wait. Nice day though!

Me, Denise, Michelle and Crocodile Dundee (Jeff). Where did we pick up the croc man?!?!

One of the crazy rides. This opens up and you are pretty much laying face down, horizontal to the earth as you do all kinds of crazy stuff. Naturally, I watched the crazies go on this thing.

Killer Whale show was really nice. I do really enjoy the shows watching how well trained these creatures are. Pretty amazing.

There was a ride that took you into a penguin exhibit. Although these guys were behind glass, the ride emptied you into an open air area where the temperature was 32 degrees and you could literally reach out and touch penguins. There were a ton of the birds standing, swimming and so on. Nice exhibit.

One of the roller coaster rides put some eye visual gear on your head. I did ride this one. The visuals were cool. However, they needed to really slow the ride down! The visuals took you beneath the sea in a wild, face paced roller coaster adventure. But I just wanted to enjoy the sea, slowly! Denise and Michelle rode it twice...one with the head gear, one without.

The ladies and Crocodile Dundee waiting for the show to start. Great fun it was.