Best Vacation EVER!

Get ready for some pictures....vacay + new camera = amatuer photographers =)
Wow, I don't even know where to begin. Justin and I agreed this was our best vacation ever. Not necessarily because of the things we did, but just getting to be together. As Justin says, "It was like we fell in love all over again"....aww, what a cheesy romantic! I love him! And we needed this.

So, to recap, we left Thursday morning and spent the day driving to O-town, Florida with the help of Alfred (the guy who lives in the GPS machine). When we got there I had to pat myself on the back. Our hotel was friggin' awesome! We were on the 20th floor, which was scary in the glass elevator that went 90 mph. but it served us well in our view.This was the pool at our hotel, it was humongous (sp?). And came with it's very own water slide, you know we were pushing the little kiddies out of the way to get on it! We could even see Epcot from our balcony...so cool.

Our first day was spent adventuring Sea World. We had never been before so we wanted to make sure we got it all in. Here are some pictures of animals we took (I can't include them all because it's just too many, so here are my favorites):The dolphins in the underwater viewing tank.
Lord knows why but I just think the manatees are so cute...look at that face!

This one was of the Sea Lion show we watched. Those jokers are smart.
This was my least favorite part of Sea World, going through the glass tunnel where the sharks swim all around you....this one was looking at me with his beady little eyes before we got his picture swimming above us. If that glass broke, you know I would have died of a heart attack long before the shark could get me.

I know it sounds silly but this was one of our favorite shows. It was called Pets Ahoy and it featured all the little animals doing tricks. There were cats, dogs, a rat, a skunk, geese, doves, and a pig. They were hilarious and Justin is still asking, "Just how do you train a rat?"
And finally we saw SHAMU! Here are some of the coolest pictures Jus got of all the action. I think he secretly wants to become a whale trainer now...
Okay, best story of the day. At all these shows we were going to, they would always announce that the first 20 rows were in the "splash zone" so if you didn't want to risk getting wet, you didn't need to sit there. So Justin and I conveniently sat in row 21 every time and stayed dry all day long =) Until it came Shamu time. Then Justin says with a devilsh little grin, "let's sit in the splash zone this time". Not wanting to be difficult I said okay and picked us out a seat in about row 10. At all the other shows only the first few rows actually ended up getting wet, so I thought we would be safe. Little did I know at the end of the Shamu show the trainers get the whole crowd to yell repeatedly for Shamu...this signals Shamu the he is to go slap his tail in front of the crowd and get the first few rows wet. I saw him do it to the middle section and laughed, then the section to the left, haha, and then.......he started swimming toward our section.......he stopped right in front of us and before I even knew it I saw that huge tail and bam, it was bigger than any wave at Pensacola beach! We weren't wet...we were SOAKED! and that water is a refreshing 52 degrees.....we couldn't help but laugh histerically after that.

Sea world only has one roller coaster, and I am a roller coaster fanatic (Justin...not so much) so right before we were going to leave I got my place in line. I waited and waited and just when I could see the promised land, the announcer came over the loud speaker and said the ride was closed due to bad weather approaching, and then the bottom fell out. We got even more soaked by the rain but all in all, it was a fun day. Not to mention we had a front row seat for ALL the firework shows going on at Disney, Epcot, Sea World...etc. We sat comfortably on our balcony and enjoyed them all at once!

The next day was our trip to Aquatica, the new Sea World water park. All of our pictures are on a waterproof camera which I haven't gotten developed yet, so you will have to wait for those, and I think they are going to be GOOD! The park was a lot of fun. My favorite part of the whole vacation. We giggled more than I ever have in my life. I liked it because almost all the rides let multiple people ride together, so we got to experience it all side by side. One of the cool things at this particular place was the water slide that puts you in a clear tube and slides you through the whale tank. And then when you get in the Lazy River, you go under this tunnel that is actually an aquarium where you can watch random people sliding through the tank. The only problem is that you were going so fast through the tube that you couldn't actually see if there were whales around you... =(

That night we went out to dinner and spent some time shopping at the outlet malls. Justin's idea! And ate at Planet Hollywood,which is a really cool place to eat, but not so good for conversation, it's pretty darn loud in there.

The next morning we got up at 4:30 (3:30 pensacola time) and headed out to a chartered bass fishing trip that Justin had scheduled for us. Justin was like a little kid, apparently the biggest bass ever was caught in this lake we were going to. Unfortunately the weather was just sooo hot and the guide said that the big mamas were hiding out so we didn't get our 17 pounder, but it was still fun!

We went home and took a long nap after that and then got ready for our couples' massages. There are definitely no pictures of that, cause we were too relaxed to even think about it. Then we dressed up and hit the town. We ate dinner and then headed to play the coolest Mini golf course ever! And yes, that bottom picture is me getting my very first hole in one, ever! exciting!

I'm sad to say that after that, we headed back to the hotel and the next morning started on our way back home =( but not before we stopped by the outlet malls again.....my husband loves to shop all of a sudden. We spent more money at the outlets than on the whole vacation I think! And now, we are back home and I missed my little Prissy girl so much. Next week is Youth Camp and then my summer is almost over, we start back school on Aug. 11th (teachers anyway). I'll be livin' it up until then =)