One lovely weekend has passed. Mom and Dad came down for a visit/vacation, and we went to the Cocoa Pier, SeaWorld and Universal Studios. I found the weekend quite relaxing, even if I did have to get up at 5:45 to drive Mom and Dad to the airport. ;-)
Mom had come down previously and seen some of the sites already, and since I've seen most of them also, Mom and I would wait in the car for parts of the trip and we would visit together while dad got to see the attractions. I got caught up on most of the happenings of friends, family, and debate. This doesn't mean I didn't talk to Dad though! This is just the slow time of the year for news from. He would help mom catch me up on life in PA and tell me a bit about his current projects, show me some interesting articles he found and other news.
I've come to a few decisions reguarding work and plans for the summer, but I'll save the for a future post. Right now, I feel like some Subway!
A single frame is hard to capture what is going on, but the swimmer is rotating as the dophins swim around each other.
A very impressive sight. Dad and I were in the soak zone for the Shamu show, but we managed to miss every big splash, sometimes by a foot or so. :-)
A close up of the killer whale. I'm pretty sure when I came to Sea World during the summer that the whale they call Shamu would also get up on that pearch for viewing, but I may be wrong. Shamu outweighs this killer whale by quite a bit. You can a large wave advance across the surface as Shamu comes through the gate. The other killer whales only produces ripples as they come through the gate.
The trainer goes all the way from the back of the pool to the front ledge on the nose of the killer whale. Just how would you go about training an animal to do that?
