My plan backfired on us. At 8am Jessi & Alex were both dressed and ready to go. Jess was even in a good mood.
I wasn't.
Sorry if there's any guy reading this, it'll probably scar you emotionally for the rest of your life.
Let's just say I'd gotten a surprise that morning, the kind of surprise you don't want to get when you're on vacation. Especially on the day you're going to Seaworld. Especially if what you like best at Seaworld is getting soaked by a whale.
Grumpy asked me if I wanted to send Jess & Alex over and she'd stay with me at POP.
"Sorry, I think you're talking to the wrong offspring here. Let's go see us some dolphins!"
AS IF I'm going to let this ruin a day of my vacation. Come on !!!
We got a cab right away and managed to be at Seaworld right at 9am when they were opening. It definitely is very different from opening time at Magic Kingdom !!!
The first thing we did after we got inside was check for our tour. We were told our tour would be at 1pm, given our tickets, and a free cute tote bag. Grumpy uses it for school now
I wanted us to head straight to the dolphin cove so Jess could feed a dolphin but we stopped to look at the turtles first.
Grumpy spotted a cute tank top at the Key West shop but didn't want to carry it around all day so she didn't buy it then. There'd be plenty of time to shop. We took our time walking to Dolphin Cove, enjoying the quietness of the park.
What I didn't know is that they have set times now where you can buy fish to feed the dolphins. The area is roped off - if you don't buy you can't get to that part of the cove, and obviously all the dolphins hang around the people who have food. I guess there were too many people pushing and shoving so they had to do that.
We'd just missed the first feeding time and the next one was an hour away.
I tried to explain that to Jessica.
"We have to wait an hour for the next feeding."
"I don't need to feed it, all I want to do is touch one."
"Well you can't do that without feeding them, look how the area is roped off you can't even walk in there. So if you want to feed and touch one we wait for an hour, no big deal, but we'll probably have to miss a show. So what do you want to do ??"
Jess then sighed heavily, then turned to Alex and said loud enough to make sure I'd hear "She's such an annoying b....!"
I think I stood there for a minute trying to digest what I'd just heard. The only thing I could think of was, are you '$£ù%;# kidding me here ???
Grumpy heard and was too stunned to say anything. Now Jess & I have called each other wayyyyyyyy worse things through the years so it wasn't the word that shocked us both, but the timing.
It was Alex who spoke up.
"She didn't say anything bad. She's just explaining to you why we can't go see the dolphins upclose right now."
"FINE ! I'm SORRY then." And she proceeded to sulk.
That's right
she was the one sulking.
I decided to just ignore her and went to the underwater viewing area to see me some dolphins. I have a friend who works in an aquarium and I have seen, touched, and fed dolphins there many times. So it doesn't really wow me anymore but I still like to look and take pics to show my DIS buddies
We left the dolphin area and started walking towards the stadium where the Blue Horizons show takes place. Jess & Alex were looking at manatees and I was sitting with Grumpy, who was taking a cigarette break, when we saw a dozen of flamingos walking towards us. They were so cute !!!!
We asked one of the girls minding the birds if they were moving to another area and she explained to us that they walk the flamingos every morning.
They were walking around as if they owned the place and we were the attractions. Those flamingos must have plenty of shrimp to eat, because they were almost bright orange instead of pink.
The first show we saw was Blue Horizons. The last time we'd seen it was a couple years ago, before we discovered Disney World. This show is amazing.
In the story, the girl is named Marina like me. When she first appeared, I leaned over to Grumpy and said "Hey, that's me!!! Darn I've really lost a lot of weight."
These pics don't come close to showing how great Blue Horizons is. If you've never been to Seaworld, you've got to try it.
That's me !!!!!!
Jess really loved this show. I was starting to worry that it simply was DISNEY she didn't like. What would we do if that was the case ??
Worry about that later. For now let's go to the Seymoure & Clyde show, Grumpy's favorite. We're a bit early -how about we go feed us some sea lions ? Jess is far behind but I go in and buy trays of fish for all of us.
Feeding the sea lions is a lot of fun, they yell at you and even gesture to you to move this way or that way so they can catch the fish.
This is fun and we're all more relaxed. We decide to go have lunch at the "healthy" place that's close by. I remind them that we need to eat rather fast because the show is in 40mns. Jess gets mad.
"Stop rushing us all the time. So we'll miss the show, big deal. I like to take my time to eat, okay!"
Grumpy nods. She agrees. I didn't see that one coming.
What if she was right ?? Maybe the problem this whole time has been
me, and I really AM an annoying b.... ???????????