Up nice and early today as we were heading for Sea World and wanted to get on the main ride before all the queues started. The big question was “Is Jack okay?” – he appeared to be back to some normality and wanted to eat and drink so that was a bug relief all round
So out of the house by 8.20am, it didn’t help that I took the wrong turning and we put an extra 20 minutes on the trip driving into Epcot!
Worthwhile doing though as we got to the start of the queue for Manta – Jack was too small so had to sit out and understandably so, it was brilliant and a bit too hard for him. Tash and I did the parent exchange so Lewis and Charlotte did well out of that as they got on twice in quick succession.
We then wandered round the park, stopping for the Dolphin show at the Blue Horizon – that really was pretty special, everyone loved it. Sea World was very impressive and without going into too much detail we saw Manatees, Alligators, Polar Bears, Walruses, Whales, Dolphins (and baby dolphins) and loads of other water-based animals that I can’t remember.
Went on the log flume – didn’t get wet, got completely and utterly soaked, it was like someone had tipped a bucket of water over us – lucky the weather was 43 degrees!
The main attraction at the place is a huge killer whale called ‘Shamu’ and we made it with seconds to spare to watch the show with him as the star attraction. There are rows of seats along the front of the aquarium that are designated as Soaking seats and that’s exactly what they were, the whales were simply encouraged to splash and soak anyone and everyone. All good fun.
We decided to move on around 2.30pm and as planned went to Wet ‘n’ Wild which is a water park with tubes and flumes that we were able to go on. Tash stayed to look after the bags and then the 4 of us went on all sorts for the next two hours. Nothing too scary but all great fun to sit of 4 people rides and go down the rapids and that. All around the park you could see the other flumes to go on, along with large queues – but that wasn’t to put us off.
I swapped over with Tash and had a snooze for an hour whilst they went on loads of other things, finally they woke me and dared me to go on the one seriously scary flume – the Bomb Drop – in which you go in a tube and the floor gives way and you slide down a 70ft drop – I didn’t see any of it as my eyes were tightly shut!
Just as we were about to leave an almightly storm came in and it bucketed it down with rain, the kids loved that and went into the pool in the rain.
Came home for showers and were in and out within 30mins to go to all you can eat Pizza at CiCi’s – great value and lovely pizza. Seeing what some people there were eating was quite incredible, we were full on all the stuff we ate but for them that would have been a starter.
We were rushing as we wanted to get to the shops but that was a bad plan, it’s Sunday today and as we drove to the Outlet Centre (which we lost anyway) Tash said “Oh, it shuts at 9.00pm” having just read her brochure, the time was 9.05pm – so u-turn and to bed!
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