Yes I think the time has come for me to talk about my trip to Texas. We had a really good time, except for the creepy "crack-zone" motel. Sea World was pretty stinking amazing. We saw lots of show, I was very very impressed...belugas are really weird animals just so you know. Anyway, it was really cool to watch the trainers and the animals interact. We saw dolphins, sea lions, a performing otter, and of course Shamu. HE"S HUGE!!!! We sat towards the front of the stadium for that one and got splashed big time. The coolest thing ever (I think) is that while we were there, I got to pet some dolphins. It was so neat. I pretty much felt like a four year old and my dad kept taking me back to the dolphin pool and buying me more fish so I could pet them some more. Now I really can't stop talking about how I touched a dolphin...it's actually a really cool thing to bring up if there's ever an awkward silence, yeah dolphins rock. I bought a kids dolphin shirt as my souvenir, its basically the coolest thing ever... the dolphins on it are purple, pretty wild stuff. Oh and my dad bought me a mood necklace (go Relient K) that has Shamu on it and it seems that for that last couple weeks I've been pretty purple. So Sea World was really fun, they had some cool rides with really funny messages that played while you waited in line. They had the usual about securing your hats and things , but one ride warned you that you had better keep your prosthetic devices screwed on tight or they might fall off and another that your anything on your person would get "soaked". Yes lots of laughs and jokes about flying fake arms. Now let me get to what was probably my favorite part of the experience. The fish tanks. The aquarium there housed so many fish! They were all so different...it was so neat!!!! I wanted to stay there and sit watching the fish for hours, I really could have. It was really strange, but watching all those fish swimming around made me want to sit and write really bad. Wanting to sit and write obviously isn't strange for me, but I thought it was odd that it was fish that brought on that feeling. I don't know they just made me so full of joy...God's creation is just so...brilliant. There were these silver fish that were almost completely flat, you could barely see them when they turned and faced you. I liked the striped fish best probably, there was a really pretty kind that was white and yellow with really thin blue stripes. There was also this fish that looked like one of those sad clowns with a big red mouth...extremely funny. Swimming at the top of the tank were sting rays and I got to watch a diver feed them by hand. It was pretty cool to watch how the sting rays interacted with him. It was almost like they were nuzzling him.
The rest of the trip wasn't bad either. In San Antonio, we ate at the Hard Rock Cafe and visited the Alamo. I really enjoyed going to see the neighborhood where my dad used to live. Some of those neighbors still live there and had lots of stories to tell. Sitting and getting to listen to all of them was really neat. At the reunion, I pitched washers (okay yeah I know totally redneck but the game is actually kind of fun with pretty advanced rules) with the best of them. Well, maybe not the best of them, but my team held its own for a while. So, yeah Texas was a fun trip. I've included pictures for your viewing pleasure. Before you get to jealous of my adventures though I will add that it was really stinking hot (check out the picture of the car thermometer).
PS Fish rock.
