Day one of our vacation... Sea World Orlando!!!

 Mike and I have only been to the San Diego Sea World so it was way fun to see this one!
It was very pretty!

Of course I get gardening ideas at these places and someday I know I will have stuff just like this in MY backyard! REALLY... I (Mike)will recreate all these things:

We saw some great shows:

 Of course we saw the Shamu show.... We had really good seats...

 It was a pretty good show... we could see the whales really well

 These whales were great and it was fun watching them cuz we were in the 7th row...

 I mean these whales were like right up close....................
.................... uh... maybe a little too close..... no more shamu show pictures right now...
wow... those signs that say you MIGHT get WET should be changed to say you WILL get SOAKED if you sit this close!!!!

 You can see how wet Mike is... and why would two old people sit so close in the Shamu show?!?!?
well.... it was not all our fault! We went early to save seats for everyone... there were 9 of us.... and let me tell you we did not make any new friends while we were saving prime seats and would not let anyone else sit there... so we waited... and waited..... and the other 7 did not make it in time!!!! So we watched the show and right at the end we could tell we might get a little splashed so we turned our heads and splaaaaaaaaashhhhhhdrenchhhhhh!!!! What?!?!? I cannot believe that just happened!!!

 This picture does not even give the whole story of how wet I was... all the way through two t shirts down to the skin... and I never completely dried out...

Oh... but only ONE side of my head got drenched... ha!!

We saw some other shows too:

AND we saw a bunch of critters/anphibians/mammals/etc.....

Watch out!! ha!!

Corrine might like the next few pictures!

Our vacation would not be complete without ice cream!!!

Awww... outr day at Sea World is about to end... bye Shamu!!

A few of us are a little wetter than when we came but a good time was had by all!!

 But wait... it's not over... We're HUNGRY... so it's off to downtown Disney!

This is the happenin place to be on a Wednesday evening!!

Lots of food choices, but we had a yummy dinner here... Not for a good nights sleep before cruise day!!! Can'r wait!!!

Leaving on a jet plane!

Finally... the day has come that we have been waiting for almost a year!!! We usually don't plan trips that far ahead... but we booked our first cruise!!... with the help of our wonderful and cute travel agency... they planned everything.. we just showed up.. pretty cool!

But let me tell ya... after waiting all this time... just a few days before we were to leave Mike got laid off!! Didn't see that coming... but we were prepared and the trip had been long ago paid for so we went.. we definitely needed to relax!!. (just a side note Mike found a job when we got back home!)

 Here we are at the airport... I looked a little frazzled... Ok.. maybe a lot frazzled... but I worked until time to go to the airport! Cute story on the way to the airport... we parked our truck and our home teacher was our shuttle driver! Crazy.. so the trip started out fun!

Just waiting for the plane.... from this time on it was just kinda a blur.. the plane was a little late... and then landed late...  so anyways... we didn't get to our hotel until like 1 in the morning or something like that!

But the next morning this was the view from our hotel window! This trip is gonna be fun!!