Another day in paradise

Sunday is here and it is part of the weekend and that means another day at Seaworld. Kim picked us and we drove to Denny's to get a nice breakfast. This time I chose the Banana chocolate Hersey pancakes. That was a very nice combination. Loved it.

We drove to Seaworld after breakfast and again it was busy but they re- arranged it a little bit better so the wait was not that long. Kim parked the car and again I didn have to do the bag check and could walk straight into the park. We walked over to Antarctica and started with the penguins. Loved their habitat. It's so nice and cold inside. After spending some time with these beautiful creatures we went outside in the burning sun.

My lord what a temperature. But strong as we are we continued and walked over to Pacific Point Preserve. A big island with seals and sealions. My favorite place to hang out in between shows. What a funny animals they are...

After a while we walked to the Dolphin Stadium and got inside to catch the Dolphin show...Dolphin Days. An educational but fun show with loads of dolphins. Fantastic show.

Because of Halloween at the end of October Seaworld has a Halloween theme every weekend and that means free candy. So we walked the trail and collected some goodies.

We walked to the KIllerwhale Underwater viewing. Seaworld thought it might be good idea to introduce fish into the killerwhale's habitat. They did it in San Diego so now Orlando. When we were there Saturday beautiful big fish were swimming in the UV pool. I said to myself with my female logic: this is not going to end well for the fish.
So we walked to the underwater viewing a day later and the water was filled with fish guts. Pieces of ripped fish.
The girls were introduced to the fish a fews days before and were fine. Even a little scared.
But they introduced the boys to the fish saturday and they made it a slaughterhouse. Well overreact a little but they got a fish and tore it apart. And they played with the spine just like the movie Lady and The Tramp.

see all those fish pieces?

See the spine between their teeth?

At 12.30 we had another surprise for Lianne. Dine with Shamu. A buffet you can eat from while Killerwhales are swimming in the pool next to you. Later on the trainers will do a training session. Well the food was good but they rushed the training a little bit. I mean no jumps and we had the boys Makaio and Trua. So we complained on the survey.


After the lunch we walked over to the Northpole and visited the seals and the Walrus. Nice and cool and we took the forbidden way but hey we were not the only ones...

And yes it was time for One Ocean again. We missed the first one but had two left which we did. Ofcourse the animals were fantastic.

At the end of the show we walked back to the exit while collecting more candy. Have I mentioned how crowded it was and how hot?

We drove off and we decided to have dinner at Wild Buffalo Wings. Juicy and sweet chickenwings with cellery and carrots. Yummie. It was very loud as American football was on TV.

After dinner Kim drove us to the hotel and dropped us off. We were both tired so the lights went out not too soon after that.
Monday its Busch Gardens..

My Happy Place

Finally the weekend was here and this means we are going to Seaworld. The night was short after Mickey's Halloween Party but we had no problem getting up.
Kim picked us up and we drove to Seaworld just a short distance away. It was already very busy but finally we were at the parking lot and parked our car. Went to the bag control and we were inside.
First we ate some breakfast and debated how our day would go.

After breakfast we started at Pets Ahoy. A great and sweet show with dogs, cats, ducks, rats, pigs etc. They all have been rescued from shelters. This show is so much fun and you walk away with a smile.

We walked to the back of the park and went to Shamu Stadium. After a short wait we could go inside and yes we were sitting in our favorite spot.

The show was ofcourse fantastic. They changed it a bit with more education. Also cool is the fact they name the whales by their names and tell us what they love about that praticular animal.  I was home....

After the show we ate a light lunch and waited for our tour. It was a surprise for Lianne. We booked KIllerwhale upclose tour.
After dividing us in small groups we could go inside and we had Nalani. This sassy lady is something. What a beautiful animal.
The tour was fantastic. You could do several pictures with your animal. And even request poses. No you can't jump in or touch the whale. But it was a fantastic experience.

After the tour we stayed in the neighbourhood and met up with Friends Cathy and Brandy.We sat with them and a lot of fun.
After this show we waited again and caught the last One Ocean too.  Yes we are addicted....
These animals are really my favorite.

After the show we said goodbye to Cathy and Brandy and we went to the Seafire inn and had dinner.
We drove home and after saying goodbye to Kim we went to our room. We were very tired. I managed to finish a blog about Disney but not about Seaworld. I was too tired.  Yes Iḿ getting older hahaha
Sunday will be Seaworld time too with different plans....See you tomorrow....

Cats and a Mouse

Today would be a very long day for us. We had so many things planned with a Halloween party at the end. 

KIm picked us up early morning and we drove to the 192 and went for a breakfast at the Golden Corral. That's an All You Can Eat restaurant. Quality of the food depends on what you are getting but all in all it is eatable. And itś not that expensive which is also important ofcourse.

After breakfast we drove to Target and had a quick look here. I bought some T-shirts I had my mind set on when I was back home.  We also bought some stuff for the party later on in the day. 

We went back to the car and it was cuddle time. We went to the Cat Café of Orlando.  I was so excited cause I was more than ready to cuddle. We bought a coffee and it was time to go inside. Before entering I saw some catfaces looking at us. All of a sudden another cat face came looking through the window and I was sold. My heart opened wide and pulled that little face in. 

It was a beautiful red cat named Twinkle. It was love on first sight. What a sweetie, what a beauty. 

We spend more than an hour drinking coffee and cuddling with cats. They also had 2 kittens Spunk and Lady Grey. I bought a play toy at Target and they totally loved it. This is me with Lady Grey. Have you ever seen a belly like that?

After the cuddling we drove back to Orlando and it was shopping time. We went to a few department stores and also the Dollar Tree. It's always fun to browse all these stores and collecting some ideas for gifts for home. 

Time to get changed and get into our Halloween Costume. We drove to DisneyWorld. It was the first time for Lianne, not for KIm and Me. 

Disney is outraged with prices . It was kind of a shock. 25 dollars for parking. They were busy with the tram station so we had to get out early and walked a large piece to get to the monorail that will take us to Magic Kingdom. 

THe Halloween party was completely sold out and it was busy like crazy.  What a people...

We started with Pirates of the Caribean and went to  Splash Mountain(Zippediedooda zippedie jee) We were a little wet afterwards but what a fun ride it is.

It was time for dinner and Pooh and Friends invited us to their restaurant. 

The food was great, characters too. We had Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet. 

Maar toen kwam de rekening. Zijn ze nu helemaal mesjogge daar in Disney. 65 dollar p.p. incl. fooi. 

Nee dat was het niet waard. Gaan we niet meer doen,...

Terug het park in en hebben we de snoep trail gelopen en ondertussen nog wat attracties gedaan zoals de Haunted Mansion en It's a small world. 

Het was bijna tijd voor het prachtige vuurwerk spektakel zoals alleen Disney dit kan. We hadden een superplek vlak voor het kasteel. Het was er mega druk. Maar we stonden en dat was het belangrijkste.

Een impressie:

Na het vuurwerk gingen we meteen Mainstreet in om een plekje te zoeken voor de parade. Aangezien dit de tweede parade was viel het ons op hoe verschrikkelijk druk het nog was. Volgens ons heeft Disney de capaciteit op deze speciale avonden flink verhoogd. 

Het was een hele mooie en gezellige avond maar er was een hoop veranderd in Disney. Het echte Disney gevoel hing er niet meer. Het was allemaal veel commerciëler.  Nee hier hoeven we niet meer zo nodig heen.

We gingen terug met de Ferry boat en even rond de klok van 1.30 p.m. zette Kim ons af bij het hotel. 

Het zou een korte nacht worden want om 9 uur zou ze weer voor de deur staan. Dan wacht Seaworld.

Day in Paradise

The day started bright and early for us. Around 6 o clock in the morning we were up and about and excited for the day to come.
Kim picked us up at 7.15 and we drove to Discovery Cove. At 7.30 we got checked in and we walked into the park.
We started straight away with some breakfast. It was delicious!!

After breakfast it was time to change into our bathingsuits and explore the park. This park is so beautiful. Pretty landscape and almost peaceful.


Soon it was time for our dolpin interaction. It's so amazing to be close to a beautiful animal like that. So close in the animal's environment.
Our Dolphin was Yoko. She is 24 years old and a little sassy. I love that ... What a beautiful animal.
What a beautiful experiment. So amazing!!!

Ofcourse some family photos too.

What a joy, what a joy.

After the dolphins swim and a little break we went to the lazy river and relaxed in the nice hot water. We went to see the otters and the marmosets.

After a few minutes watching these cuties we continued our journey and got out at the aviary where we could feed several birds. Beautiful area.

 after the aviary we jumped back into the river and  enjoyed eachother's company together with the beautiful landscape

Floating in the river makes you hungry so it was lunch time and I chose the steak with potatoes, vegetables, a salad, watermelon and a cheesecake afterwards.  It was very good.

The rest of the afternoom we spent snorkeling with the stingrays. That area is so beautiful. I had a full mask snorkel which is amazing. I could see clearly underwater and I could breath normally.

We were getting cold in the freezing water(hahaha) and got out and got dressed.

We jumped in the car and drove to Lake Buena Vista outlet. Somehow my favorite....
We went shopping and we all came back with bags with goodies.

We ate a light dinner at Five Guys and after that we coninued shopping.  Again bags for us all.

Kim drove back to the hotel and dropped us off. And now we are chillin in our room and admire our new bought stuff.

We are getting ready for tomorrow. It will be a long day as we are going to  Mickey's Halloween party.
So I'm not sure I have time to write a blog.  Iĺl do my best I promise.

THanks for reading and commenting folks!