A Magical way to spend a day – wait that’s Magic Mountain

Another year older. Time is too precious to be unhappy or angry. Like -that- another moment is gone. Never to be recaptured. So we should make the most of it. 

I went to Seaworld for my birthday yesterday. I initially slept in, which is forgivable on your birthday, but it didn’t matter. Even leaving half an hour late we got there on time, I must be a speed demon, that or google maps failed me. I had to be there early to check in for swimming with the dolphins. It’s strange but my friend Sarah and her husband were behind us in the last stretch to Seaworld and she rang my phone, which Coral had to answer (taking hold of her passenger duties) to say that I would have to merge over soon so i didn’t miss the exit. lol. I was thinking spy satelite maybe cctv cameras. It was a bit strange.

The Dolphin thingamabob was awesome. Really truly. I got to play with Mokey. Who weighs in at 200 kilos. And yet she was quite content to let us pat her and take photos, etc. I got to see them speed by underwater which was cool; and do flips right in front of us, also cool. One thing I think they should have let us do was to be able to hold onto the fin and get zoomed around the pool. We got to see the trainers do it, but not us.

We hung around to watch the dolphin show, some of the tricks they do are amazing, and afterwards, while the others waited patiently outside I went into the water park to change out of my wetsuit. However I couldn’t resist myself and ran/walked swiftly to the pool and jumped in. ahhh. Then I quickly got out and got changed. Ha ha ha.

We got to see the polar bears duking it out in their enclosure. Nothing to see in the underwater section when the bears are on land but we walked through anyway and continued on to the sting rays. I got to feed them and pat them. Very different to a dolphin. Where a dolphin is firm and rubbery, and sting ray is soft and rubbery. I can’t see how they could possibly kill Steve Irwin, unless he was trying to molest it.

Then we went on the rides. We all went on the jet rescue ride, that locks you into fake jet ski’s that zoom around a rollercoaster. Much fun. They even spray you with water mid ride. Then Sarah and Dan lined up for the corkscrew, so Coral and I went to get drinks and came back, drank them, got told off by the staff for sitting in a naughty area, continued to sit there, wandered up to the ride, and they were still waiting. When they did manage to get on,  I caught the best action shot of them while zooming around. Very cool. Afterwards Coral and I went on the Bermuda triangle, I don’t remember it being so lame. Oh no! A hot female alien was amongst us the whole time! C’mon. 

Then it was home time.

When I got home and the hunger started to settle in, I wandered down to Sizzler, in my car. Wandering requires a car in my book. Sizzler has this deal for take away salad bar for $9.50, so I got myself the lot, including a piece of birthday cake.

Happy birthday to me.

Another year older. Time is too precious to be unhappy or angry. Like -that- another moment is gone. Never to be recaptured. So we should make the most of it. 

I went to Seaworld for my birthday yesterday. I initially slept in, which is forgivable on your birthday, but it didn’t matter. Even leaving half an hour late we got there on time, I must be a speed demon, that or google maps failed me. I had to be there early to check in for swimming with the dolphins. It’s strange but my friend Sarah and her husband were behind us in the last stretch to Seaworld and she rang my phone, which Coral had to answer (taking hold of her passenger duties) to say that I would have to merge over soon so i didn’t miss the exit. lol. I was thinking spy satelite maybe cctv cameras. It was a bit strange.

The Dolphin thingamabob was awesome. Really truly. I got to play with Mokey. Who weighs in at 200 kilos. And yet she was quite content to let us pat her and take photos, etc. I got to see them speed by underwater which was cool; and do flips right in front of us, also cool. One thing I think they should have let us do was to be able to hold onto the fin and get zoomed around the pool. We got to see the trainers do it, but not us.

We hung around to watch the dolphin show, some of the tricks they do are amazing, and afterwards, while the others waited patiently outside I went into the water park to change out of my wetsuit. However I couldn’t resist myself and ran/walked swiftly to the pool and jumped in. ahhh. Then I quickly got out and got changed. Ha ha ha.

We got to see the polar bears duking it out in their enclosure. Nothing to see in the underwater section when the bears are on land but we walked through anyway and continued on to the sting rays. I got to feed them and pat them. Very different to a dolphin. Where a dolphin is firm and rubbery, and sting ray is soft and rubbery. I can’t see how they could possibly kill Steve Irwin, unless he was trying to molest it.

Then we went on the rides. We all went on the jet rescue ride, that locks you into fake jet ski’s that zoom around a rollercoaster. Much fun. They even spray you with water mid ride. Then Sarah and Dan lined up for the corkscrew, so Coral and I went to get drinks and came back, drank them, got told off by the staff for sitting in a naughty area, continued to sit there, wandered up to the ride, and they were still waiting. When they did manage to get on,  I caught the best action shot of them while zooming around. Very cool. Afterwards Coral and I went on the Bermuda triangle, I don’t remember it being so lame. Oh no! A hot female alien was amongst us the whole time! C’mon. 

Then it was home time.

When I got home and the hunger started to settle in, I wandered down to Sizzler, in my car. Wandering requires a car in my book. Sizzler has this deal for take away salad bar for $9.50, so I got myself the lot, including a piece of birthday cake.

Happy birthday to me.