Daily Archives: March 1, 2008

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Shamu! – PAD #1058

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Shamu! - PAD #1058

Today Allison, Eva, Marcia, Dan and I met up with Maureen to go to SeaWorld. I don’t think I have been to Sea World since I was about 10 years old. So much has changed within the park. The one constant has been Shamu. And apparently Shamu has been busy because I can remember when the first baby Shamu was born. Since that time there have been about 23 others. We learned all about this because there was about a 20 minute period where the whales were having their own thing going on in the back pools. The trainer was able to give us tons of great information.

The new show that they have in the park is called Believe and it is a pretty amazing show. I was poised to shot as much as I could with my Telephoto lens. The little girl in front of me was poised to block me as much as possible. I totally missed a fantastic shot because of timing. Well, now that I look at it I missed it because the hyper kid in front of me decided that that was when she was going to point out that there was a crane on the upper catwalk above the Shamu Pool.

Look, a Crane...

I feel like I just made one of those ads for Canon cameras that show photos one second before or after famous shots.

We had a very nice day all around. We saw some good shows and some fun things. Spending time with Mo was also a treat. We hadn’t seen her since she moved to Florida.

Eva was great at the park all day long as well. I took tons of photos but need some time to process all of them. I’ll have them up as soon as I get some time.

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Disney, Travel

Downtown Disney Trip…

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Eva in her Stroller

Last night Allison, Eva, Marcia, Dan and I went to Downtown Disney for a few hours. After we left IZEA we went to the hotel and then got Dan and Marcia and Allison and Eva settled. We made a quick turn around and headed out to Downtown Disney.

When we got there we started looking for a place to eat. We tried Cap’n Jack’s Restaurant but the wait was 2 /12 hours. And that was at around 4:30pm. So it was busy already. It didn’t look busy though, no line or anything. Must have been many people who made reservations. Well, since we were going to look around anyway I ran over to the pin shop to get a special edition Bike Week 2008 pin and a Leap Day 2008 pin featuring Tinkerbell. This will be Eva’s first pin.

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Dinner was sandwiches at Earl of Sandwich. This worked out very well as they were fairly light, not too expensive, tasty and fast. We also hit some sort of lull in the chaos because we were able to get a seat, place our orders and eat before the crowds got too huge.

After that we walked all over Downtown Disney. We stopped in many different shops and Mimi and Grandpa Dano picked up a few things for Eva. She has some new bibs, socks and a book called the Art of Pooh. Which probably is more for Allison than Eva right now.

We had a great time and I took many photos. The sky was pretty amazing over The Fulton’s Crab House Steamboat.

Here are some more photos.

Sunset Sky at Downtown Disney