Sea World

Stephanie came to visit this weekend and we went to Sea World on Friday.. finally... after venturing through the park I started to remember the last trip there when I was little.

We got in line about 11ish, where we got our first taste of the crying, whining, and screaming that we would have to withstand the rest of the day.

We walked around a bit and I started to remember the trip we took there years ago. The area in which they hold the water skiing show was one of the first places I remembered.

One thing that wasn't there last time was 'Journey to Atlantis' ride which resembles the log ride that every water park has. We didn't ride it due to the fact initially I was too timid to go, but it only took me the whole day to get the courage to go, but by the time we made it over there we were too exhausted. But we did realize that I'm not as timid to ride water rides then rollercoasters... odd..

There were some birds..

And this duck.. it kept swimming away when I was trying to take a picture.. It's like it knew I had slow shutter speed.... hmmph...

Of course we had to go to a shamu show.. We went to the 'Believe' show..

It was quiet cheesy. We sat in the splash zone and didn't get splashed, I was disappointed. I was deprived of the splash zone when I was little... hehehe...







We went to the waterpark, and then to the sea lion and otter show. Probably my favorite even though those sea lions seemed to be not cooperating. Again we sat in the splash zone, and this time I got wet, just me. Too bad the water squirted off the stage and directly onto my crotch, I mean perfect aim, luckily my clothes were wet from my bathing suit so it didn't look terrible.

We went to go see the sea lion tank afterwards, and spent a long time there, because they're just so cute...





























next up the penguin exhibit... it was dark inside, so it was hard to take pictures, but we found a giant penguin outside.

the dolphin tank was pretty dull, it was after 5 and the feeding was done for the day so they weren't too active.

the shark and coral exhibit wasnt too great. It was ok, but I was expecting more. The tanks seemed a bit small and not set up very well. They had information on SOME of the species of sharks and fish in the tank, but not all of them. I'm not saying it was horrible, but I'm a nerd (the kind who gets excited about shark week!) and I like to know what I'm looking at. But they had some cool jelly fish.

We had planned on going to another sea lion show and another shamu show, but we were exhausted so we decided to leave and beat some of the traffic out of there.

The rest of the picture are on my photobucket account, the link is on the left under 'links' and the password is my last name.

back to reality...

now its back to reality after my short "vacation".. had fun with some friends this weekend.. went to sea world and wandered around san antonio... got a lot of pictures from sea world... will post them later


---- i posted the pictures on my photobucket page.. the liink is on the left under links, and the password is my last name

Weekend: pictures

We got as many pallets as we could... it took some time..


but we made a fire!


Even though one wasn't needed since it was warm out and we had the light of the full moon!



In sad news, my pocket rock-it AKA my headphone amplifier, finally died... it's officially crapped out, no amount of ghetto rigging can fix it... so I took it apart to verify it was dead... I've had it for at least 5 years now, so I think we got our moneys worth out of it..

Weekend

Well I went to Corpus this weekend to see my friends new apartment (oh how i envy them..) and to celebrate with robin her last weekend in corpus. I got a few pictures that I will upload later...

When I got home I received a letter from UTSA saying I made the part-time honor roll last semester, I was pretty excited, since midway through last semester I felt like I'd be far from.

Also, a few big dates coming up in August:
The Astros will recognize two Astros icons during pregame ceremonies in August. First up is Biggio, who will be honored on Sunday, Aug. 12, prior to the Astros' game with the Brewers. On Aug. 26, Jeff Bagwell's uniform No. 5 will be retired prior to the Astros-Pirates game.

I think the retirement of Bagwell's number would be a awesome thing to see. If you don't know much about baseball then it's hard to describe, but retiring a number is a big deal, and it being Bagwell's number retired is a even bigger deal (well, to me anyways, since he's pretty much the reason I started watching baseball... which you all should know, if not, you know now).