Theme Park Madness

So moving right along to Orlando. Where is the time going?! Anyway, this stop was all about theme parks, although apparently Orlando itself is quite a nice place too, but I'm sure not that many people actually care enough to find out. I mean there's theme parks to visit! haha

Question: How many theme parks can you do in 2 days?
Answer: 4

As we were driving to the first one we noticed this interesting power pole:)

So the first park we stopped at was Universal Studios. It was a Monday so it was pretty quiet at the park and we weren't waiting more than 5 minutes for rides which was great. Here's a pic of Christian and Casie outside.

They'd just finished a Simpson's ride which was basically a small simulator for about 8 people. It was pretty fun, but I was rather queasy afterwards. Anyway, here's me at the Kwik-E-Mart.

The other fairly amusing thing we saw was these seat testers outside each ride. If you can't read it this one says "This attraction's seat restraints may not accommodate guests with certain body dimensions". Here's Christian ensuring he has the appropriate 'body dimensions' required.

Then we saw Doc from Back to the Future (one of my fave movies). Here's a pic of me with him. He told me 'thumbs up for science' and who was I to argue. He was actually quite a good likeness.

After we'd run around and done all the rides we wanted to at Universal we went nextdoor to their other park called Islands of Adventure. Now this park was wicked. Heaps more rides!! My camera battery had died by then so i don't have pics but it was so much fun.

The next day we went to Seaworld. We went to see the stingrays and you could buy food to feed them with. You had to put the little fish between your fingers so it stood up straight and then put your hand flat on the bottom of the tank. The stingray would then come past and suck it out of your fingers. It was so gross! That thing was slimey and sucking my arm!! I screamed and ran as soon as it grabbed the fish. I believe Christian may have caught it on video.

Then we went to see the Shamu show. I was horrified to find out that they call the whales at each SeaWorld Shamu. What a scam!! I'm not sure where the original Shamu is or if he's even still alive, but here is some killer whale we saw. Nate and Christian sat in the soak zone and needless to say, they got soaked.

Then we went nextdoor to Seaworld's water park, Aquatica. It just opened and it's really cool. They have a waterslide that goes through an aquarium with dolphins. Although that would have been the worst slide ever. The split second that I went through that part of the slide I didn't see a single dolphin. Although there was a viewing thing where you could see them and watch people coming through the slides.

The highlight of the day was this ride though. It was basically a giant whirlpool like river that went around the park. You wear a life jacket and basically get pushed around by the current. There's a couple of exits and you can also get onto some of the slides via this river thing. It was so much fun, i could float around in there all day. All we needed were some margaritas.