Kennyster

Thursday, August 10, 2006

I'm not sure what Lin thinks, but I thought Seaworld, together with Honolulu, were the favorite moments of our vacation.

Seaworld was super-duper fun. Great rides, gorgeous sea creatures and these animals really reminded me of Madagascar. Not in terms of resemblance, but in terms of their actions. They must have known that they were the celebrities of the park, and they really hammed it up for the cameras and crowds at their enclosures.

Either that or their park keepers have been injecting caffeine into them.

We paid alittle bit more to get the behind-the-scenes tour which we got to see the labs for these animals, baby sharks and incubated shark eggs and manatees suntanning...

More importantly, we got priority seatings for the Shamu shows, which were the killer whales performances. The dolphin and seals shows were great, but the Shamu shows are THE shows to catch at Seaworld.

I'm still clueless about how they teach the whales to perform backflips and somersaults to U2's Vertigo but that was the last thing on my mind as me and Lin were cheering and clapping with everyone in the crowd, doing the Shamu hand signals to urge the whales to splash gallons of icy salt water into our faces.

We sat in the soak zones which were so so much fun. And its amazing because its actually 15 rows of seats... THAT'S the force of water that a whale can splash at you.

I'm having some problems loading my videos onto YouTube so I'm just going to leach one and post it here.. =)

Lin loved Shamu so much that she wanted to buy the soft toy home. I told her to think about it since we were only halfway through our US trip and it would be quite troublesome to bring it with us. And you know women, emotions come before logic, and she went to buy the soft toy. And it was yours truly who carried it for her from San Diego to San Francisco to Hawaii and back to Singapore. Grrrr.

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During our stay in San Diego, we also did a day trip to Tijuana Mexico, which was a mere 40min train ride from Downtown. Getting into Mexico is really freakin easy. Neither passports or any IDs are required. You just need to have enough strength to push the gate.

I didnt really like Tijuana. Pretty run-down and there were lots of child beggars around, which made it hard for me to take pictures. There's nothing much to do there since the shops are mainly taco restaurants and pharmacies that sells Viagra at 4 for $16.

Kennyster @ 1:17 AM