as the well wishing birthday tradition in this blog goes on....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!

sounds like u had a great celebration with your new college friends! take care, have fun!

September 28th around 2:50pm

'Twas a Sunday just like any other.
A hot autumn afternoon
Nothing else planned, no where in particulars to be.
I went outside towards the car, when, I saw it.
Something was moving at the end of our driveway, and pretty quickly.
Carapaced, black, aha! I knew exactly what it was!
My mother curiously wondered why i started to sprint towards the end of our driveway.
Get the video camera! I said. It's a turtle!!
My mom comes out and hands it over.
It saw me and halted.
Yes, it was a turtle all right. A big one too.
About twelve inches I would say.
"Look at its eyes! It's so cute!"
There it stopped, black of the deepest hue,
with wonderful contrasting yellow eyes blinking through the sunlight.
Click! Click! Two pictures.
My sister came out.
Here take a picture of me and the turtle!
Click!
Put it in the grass! My dad said.
I picked it up, this yellow liquid squirted out of the sides of its shell.
Eww!! Eww!!
Defense mechanism. Sweat? It looked healthy enough not to be injured.
I carried it to a grassy area.
My mom and I left in the car as we had my sister watch it go across Gulf Winds Court
It's headed towards the lake we figure.

I arrived back to the house.
Yay we saw a turtle today!
My sister decided to name it Harold.
Goodbye Harold, happy trails.


florida softshell turtle, basically what Harold looked like

=-P

didn't have anything to post. So I changed the template. Again. sorry for any inconveniences.

itcheee

i got like 7 mosquito bites from the game last nite! yowza.

but that's not why i'm posting again today. actually the only reason i'm posting again is because... i have free time. wheee free time!! i'm still at school. i have a Society of Women Engineers meeting at 7pm. which is exactly 45minutes from now. i absolutely must remember to bring a tripod tomorrow! *remember remember*. oo there's a plug outlet on the floor! haha. sorry just saw that. i love molly's new icons she just recently posted! alias' looks graphically great (oh no... i used one of those literary terms!) but i can't relate to it since i've never watched a whole episode. *itch* no! must stop the itching! i get to go home late today.... yay.... my engineering group is working on a 3 pointless assignment. oh wait i mean... 3 PAGE assignment. (same thing) actually i've done most of it so maybe we won't have to stay after as long. but there's some math configurations we have to do too so.... yeah. hopefully they know how to work those out lol. how's everybody else doing? it rained today. no it POURED today. and guess what i didn't do again? bring my umbrella is correct! at least i had a hat... the laptop was okay. oh yeah, i bring my laptop on thursdays. gives me something to do in the meantime. though i'm not on it now. yes. oo it's getting dark outside. the campus looks so pretty when it's lit up. not necessarily the time or place i'd like to take a leisurely stroll... i parked in a dirt lot today.... shouldn't have done that. considering the sand is now mud. goshdarnit. dash it all then! c'est la vie!

looks like it be about to time to start walking to the engineering building.... byyyee.

the Big Machine

well it looks as though sonya has left! although i really don't know where she went. that makes me kind of sad that i don't know. i didn't get to say bye. but i understand that she didn't want to let me know. so anyway, sonya wherever you are, i hope you are doing well and i guess i'll talk to u sometime in the future!

in other news... i got a free hat and pencil yesterday! yep. this girl asked me if i wanted my picture taken to help promote that movie the School of Rock. so she gave me a baseball cap that said school of rock to wear. my mother was very skeptical as to why someone would be doing it on campus. me too. but.... i got... a free.... hat! yeah famous last words.

i went to one of my sister's slow pitch softball games last nite. it was so fun! the middle bleachers were split cuz half of it was occupied by olympia supporters. my mom and i were on the other half. the other team's parents were so loud! gosh. so then we, my mom and i, would once in awhile go "woo!". yeah we're alive. the rest of apk's supports were on the right bleachers and the table behind it. apopka was behind 4 to 0 so of course olympia was louder. then it got to 4 to 4. it stayed that way for about 2 innings! stressful. finally the apk crowd was warming up. 5th inning my sister was up first to bat. she rips the ball down through center and makes a double! yayy!! that woke everyone up and they moidered the other team that inning. 11 to 4. now all they had to do was keep them down. which they did. the first time they played olympia, they beat them 9 to 5 but it didn't count for the conference! this time they beat them 11 to 4. i'd say that's a better score to put on the record. tiffany said the guy coach didn't even mention her good hit in the post game meeting. like totally wrong dude. she had to remind him and he probably didn't even see it! i think he expects her to do well anyway... that's my theory. she also executed a great out by getting someone running home. she was the catcher yesterday. and that's the ballgame folks.

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so, i haven't posted a "real" whats-new-in-my-life post in about... 4 days. hey... that's interesting. i think i can as of this moment say that jacq and molly post way more than i do! lol. still refuse to give up my crown for updating my template the most. haha. challenge? challenge? anyway... what's new... this girl from my algebra discussion class talked to me afterwards, trying to recruit me to her church. she was nice. i was nice. not interested tho. but she's nice. i might say hi to her in class sometime. her name's nicole. that tallies up to me knowing 3 nicoles and a nikki. yay. in middle school there were about 3 other crystals. that was interesting. okay i'm gonna stop saying interesting. because it's not really *that* interesting. i'll consult my mental thesaurus and use... fascinating. lol. yes it was FASCINATING. but it gave us an excuse to get to know each other with an icebreaker of "i love your name!". right now i don't communicate with any Crystals. yet i know they exist. which is.... fascinating. quick! you're losing your readers! write about something else!

umm umm i'm supposed to go with kate to buy the GC tickets in the student union today. her bro, amanda, and amanda's bf might go too. the more the merrier i sometimes say. Goldfinger and Eve6 are coming here too, i must've been reading from a wrong source. altho way back when on the radio they were saying something corporate. okay what else is new with me... u know when u're walking one way and another person is walking towards u and u see each other and u have to decide if u want to walk by on the right or left side but sometimes u both try to go the same way and stop rite in front of each other? hopefully u do lol. well i have problems with that haha. happened just downstairs of this library (which where i am typing this to you) with this guy. he tried to speed across me so i tried to speed ahead so he wouldn't have to worry about speeding. then we stopped. he said "oh excuse me" and positioned his arms in the way that indicated to let me pass. aww that was nice of him. i'm such a dork. it's a good thing i don't drive like that cuz he wouldn't be that nice. speaking of driving... this morning i was trying so hard to just do that speed limit. which is dam hard! i planned on rushing in the mornings like i do but this time a police car was in the lane next to me. then behind me. whoo really nervous. but finally he was way behind me or turned somewhere so that was good. *sigh of relief*

yesterday, i went to Park Ave CDs, the local UCF CD store, where i attended a release party for Outkast's new one. it was basically CD buying line over here, pizza line over there. pizza? yes sir! yum... free pizza... i thought of buying the new CD... thought of not buying it... thought of buying it....finally decided not to buy it. figured maybe it's cheaper @ Best Buy. or i'll find it in the used cds section.

oh yeeeaaaaaaaaahhhh AND as most of u may have indeed noticed, i changed my template again. the other one lasted for about a whole 6 days! wooww lol.

i like my blogspot yes i do.

My new favorite song

the song's undeniably catchy, the way they wrote out these lyrics are hilarious, and the video is good funny.

Hey Ya
by Outkast


[Intro]
One two three go!

[Verse One - Andre 3000]
My baby don't mess around
Because she loves me so
And this I know fo shooo..
Uh, But does she really wanna
But can't stand to see me
Walk ou the dooo..
Don't try to fight the feelin'
Because the thought alone is killing me right nooww..
Uh, thank god for mom and dad
For sticking through together
'Cause we don't know hooowww...
UH!

[Chorus]
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa..
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa..
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa..
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa..

[Verse Two - Andre 3000]
You think you've got it
Ohh, you think you've go it
But got it just don't get it
Till' there's nothing at
AaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaallllll..
We've been together
Ohh, we've been together
But seperate's always better when there's feelings
InvooooooOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOooooooOOOOOlved
If what they say is ("Nothing is forever")
Then what makes, Then what makes, Then what makes
Then what makes, Then what makes LOOVVEEE?
(Love exception) So why you, why you
Why you, why you, why you are we so in denial
When we are not happy heeeerrreeee...
Y'all don't want me here you just wanna dance

[Chorus]
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (Don't want to meet your daddy, OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Just want you in my Caddy OHH OH)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH, don't want to meet yo' mama OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Just wan't to make you cumma OHH OH)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (I'm, OHH OH I'm, OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (I'm just being honest OHH OH, I'm just being honest)

[Bridge - Andre 3000]
Hey, alright now
Alright now fealous, (YEAH!)
Now what's cooler than bein' cool?
(ICE COLD!) I can't hear ya'
I say what's cooler than bein' cool?
(ICE COLD!) whooo...
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, Ok now ladies, (YEAH!)
And we gon' break this back down in just a few seconds
Now don't have me break this thang down for nothin'
Now I wanna see y'all on y'all baddest behavior
Gimme some suga', I am your neighbor ahh here we go!
Shake it, shake, shake it, shake it (OHH OH)
Shake it, shake it, shake, shake it, shake it, shake it (OHH OH)
Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid Picture, shake it, shake it
Shh you got to, shake it, shh shake it, shake it, got to shake it
(Shake it Suga') shake it like a Polaroid Picture

[Verse Three - Andre 3000 (Repeating "Shake it" in background)]
Now while Beyoncé and Lucy Lui
And baby dogs, get on the floor
(Get on the floor)
You know what to dooo..
Yooooouuu.. know I do

[Chorus]
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Uh oh, Hey Ya)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Uh, uh, OHH OH)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH)

[Chorus continues until fade]


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CONGRATULATIONS!

goes to the new MISS AMERICA!!

Ericka Dunlap- who was Miss Florida and is going to UCF!!!

representin! nice. :) anybody watch that last nite? i did cuz i had to support a fellow UCF student! but it was cool cuz she really wasn't expecting it. it was down to her and Miss Hawaii. but actually she was doing quite well. the tv viewers were told that she won the Evening Gown , Talent, and Interview rounds! i didn't tune into the swimsuit comp or giant dance they all do. anyway the talents weren't very special. i wanted to see some ventriliquism or baton twirling! lol. 4 singers and one cello player. the top 5 were miss FL, CA, WI, MD, and HI. i like it when the winner is really genuinely shocked and surprised and that's how dunlap looked. in a little personal clip before their talents, each person talked about something they hold close. and ericka starts talking about elephants. all of these elephant trinkets that she owns and names. i'm thinking how can ANYBODY be so obsessed with an animal like that.... LOL. it wasn't like maryland's committment to pub education or wisconsin's hope to increase organ donors. elephants. lol. my dad was like "if she doesn't win, u can go on and represent your turtles!" haha there's hope for people like me somewhere in this vast universe! hahaha. i thought ericka was just too cool not to win after that. especially her interview answer was so eloquent and proper for the world situation. so i'm very happy for her! :D

ooo MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!

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yayy! isn't that around thanksgiving? *excited*.

i am in a very concert-oriented mood. barely yesterday i heard on da OROCK station that Good Charlotte along with Something Corporate will be coming to the UCF Arena (that's here that's here!) on November 3rd. looked it up, goin on sale tomorrow. woohoo! don't know if i will buy them just yet, have to see if anyone will come with. it's a not-so-bad price of $25. well compared to the $5 tori amos/ben folds show they just had a few weeks ago it's killer. but n e way... yesh. concerts woohoo! oh! i also see that they are going to the U of Miami campus too. chouette... :)

hi stacy! <== look u're in my blog! lol.

oh oh another thing. if you are interested in reading the beginnings of a wonderful tale, go look at sonya's blog :) . it's got style, it's got class, it's got an ostrich, a wombat, a plunger, cactus juice, and seth green. lol.

Beethoven's Symphony #5 in C minor

da da da DAAAAAAAA

da da da DAAAAAAAA...

i got a 75% on my Geo test. well bucket o irish nuts.

on a higher note, i think i did a lot nicer on my music exam yesterday :S. note, music, HA. okay nobody got that i understand. i have constructed a theory on these college exams. ask me about it if u're curious.

ha hee hee?

well it's 9:34am and i am in the school library. i SHOULD be studying for geography. which i will take in... 5 hours. but i'm not. hmm. he placed an example of the test in the reserves area on monday. they told him it would be ready today. or that's what he thought. i asked the guy he said it takes a week. oh good so i'll be able to see the example test next week! i read over some of my notes. hopefully the test isn't horrible. it's all multiple choice. if it's like his lectures then it won't be. i dont remember if he drops the lowest score. i think i'll start studying at 10. just cuz :). i am definitely studying for my music exam that's tomorrow tho. i'm staying late today. so maybe i'll have another post up lol.

open house was kinda cool. i felt like a ghost goin around there lol. a few people recognized me. we parked in the student lot. we left at 6:30, yeah i thought we'd only take an hour there. got home around 9. apparently my sister was there but she was selling those discount cards with her team so she wasn't done till late. she told us to meet in the front commons so my mom and i waited there. i decided to go visit mrs montague. then i realized how far away the 100 hall is from the front commons. so i went to visit ms. carter first. she was so happy to see me, i was glad to see her. the room is A LOT neater now, there's even space still on the shelves. a nice desk with a big desk lamp. and more details u really wouldn't need to know. but i asked her about classes and how she's doing, she said good, vice versa. i tipped her on county competition which she completely forgot about. she told me about the APs. nicole, amber, marcela, sherley, girl from haiti named kirby... i spoke one french word with her! Bonjour! hee hee. her american accent sounded better, i guess that's better for the french ones she's teaching. and then i went to see mrs montague who was also happy to see me. no one else was in their rooms at the time so i was able to have convos with them. i wanted to ask how mrs montague's ap class was doing but all we ended up talking about really was me. maybe next time. she asked me to email her sometime, which i still have to do. everytime i drive by her neighborhood i think "oh! have to email her!" then i forget lol. it's good that i got to see her. i saw mrs johnston too but she was talking with dr. edwards so i didn't bother. eeww! there are like mini dust bunnies falling from the ceiling! that's unclean... speaking of unclean... ahs still looks the same. big hole in the wall in the 100 hall, some of the walls are torn up. altho the hallways actually smelled good. probably just for that night.

alrite 9:54am best be off. OR ELSE. yay for empty threats.

LoL

WOW IS THIS RED OR WHAT??

nice eh? this is partially to help satisfy molly's new infatuation lol. and partially cuz mraz rocks my world too! i shoulda thought of this back when i first started talking about him. then again, i think that was harry potter wallpaper season. so anyway, this is what it's gonna be for awhile. if the red blinds anybody i apologize, but i dont think it's too bad. i usually dont like red but heeyy i'm open to new things. the picture with him tangled in the cheese... at least i think it's cheese... is a little scary i admit. but it's funny hee hee. yay!

guess what? i'm goin to apopka's open house. lol. it's gonna be a blast i'm sure... but no mme. harris! yay! kinda weird. i'm going cuz my sister can't go (softball stuff) and my mom doesn't want to be lost and it would have been okay were i still going there but since i'm not... oh well. it'll help me procrastinate for yet another hour to study for my geo test.

aahh!! the birds!!

i was rushing to school (speeding? me?) and suddenly all these birds fly off the wires around my car! aaahhh!!! haha it was funny. i didn't start swerving into other lanes or anything. but it's just... funny. :) i woke up late today but i still made it to school. it took like over an hour. i managed to hit every single red light on maitland :S.

editing this video puts me under a very strange spell. i become under the impression that i have actually spent the day with those people in that video. heard them speak, laugh. saw them conversate and smile. like i was hanging out with them. it's very comforting :). maybe that's why i haven't been talking to hardly anyone lately. i feel like i already have.

i have to make a new blog layout. maybe later. i have an assignment for music class for tonite, a geo test on wednesday, a music test on thursday, math assignments, and an engineering quiz due this week!

hello! been workin hard on my video. i'm gonna try to make it on a dvd if i can figure that out. matchstick men was really interesting. i dont want to give it a way but it absolutely did NOT turn out the way i predicted. nicolas cage was a good actor in it. i haven't seen much of his movies. oh and the way some parts were filmed reminded me of The Ring. *shudder*. no actually not the ring, but the evil memory video in the ring. even worse rite? okay yesterday i didn't go outside at all. wow. just worked on my video aaallll day. watched rerun of south park, real world, and road rules. last week's road rules was amazing! the firewalking episode? wow. i think it's gonna be difficult to top these missions for the next one. driving to and from UCF i always notice these large flocks of birds flyin around and sitting on the telephone wires. they're pigeons. ever see pigeons do that? not me. still kinda freaks me out to see them all flying together like that. stupid hitchcock movie. anyway time for more edting...

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!

why?

1. IT'S FRRIIDDAAYYY!!!

2. i'm about to go out to altamonte to see "Matchstick Men" with Kate, Amanda, and Matt (kate's bro).

3. I GOT A FRICKIN A ON MY SOCIOLOGY EXAM!!

yayayayayayayayayayayayay!!!

SO happy!

truth be told i didn't really start studying until 3 hours before the exam and the only one i got wrong, yes i only got one wrong, was an answer i thought i was 100% sure. hee hee. not any of the questions i had doubts about that is. 32 out of 33 correct, plus he curved it 6% points so i have a..... 96 + 6! lol.

what else... we got out 20min early from algebra class. very nice. i was falling asleep in there. intro to engineering was fun cuz we constructed a k*nex bridge. well i didn't help out as much but i tried. :) then on um hmm oh geography was blah. dr. head wasn't even there, he had a student just run a video. it wasn't even over by the time class was! of course i leave rite at 3:20. it was just about depletion of the ozone and the effects of it. it also showed the "SUPER COMPUTERS" that made predictions. haha u know how they fill up entire rooms. this movie's from the 80's.

kay that's all i got. wait i have one more thing.

IT'S FRIDAY!!!!

see ya!

whoops

okay... so it's now September 12th. my time to formulate my opinion on September 11th is past due.

but i'll say something now anyway.

i thought about what i said about it last year in blog. i didn't have one then. so here's my first entry on it.

yes we should never forget what happened that day. in new york, washington d.c., and pennsylvania. i remember that night it happened, i was afraid osama bin laden would smash through my window. dude that's scary isn't it?! sure it's unlikely NOW... i think 9/11/01 has been dubbed "Patriot's Day" or some holiday as such. whatever. kinda sad that we have to make a holiday to help us remember. but that's how america does it. if it wasn't a foreign nation that hijacked those planes then we wouldn't make such a big deal ( i.e. create a holiday). but it was a big deal to try to comprehend the fact that the strongest nation in the world (or so we're told.... eh.. i think we are) could suddenly become so vulnerable to a choreographed middle eastern team armed with... cardboard box cutters? and this whole Homeland Security thing seems so complicated. what exactly are they doing? the terrorist threat level has been raised to ORANGE?! no!! oh now it's yellow? okay that's good. yellow orange red.... i like colors. it's a comforting thing for some people to hear what color our level is in. but i digress.

it's important to remember this day. more important to remember how America pulled through it. whether we remember with dressing up or not.

WuzOW

hey i've actually been busy past few days. cool! :P . silly me, i made this cool spiffy background and finally realized a couple days ago that no one else can see it! the background image source is of my computer so OF COURSE how could anyone else see it if they're not on my computer?

had my first ~EXAM~ today in sociology. it wasn't at all bad. but the few things he didn't say to review that were on the exam i don't even remember reading. only 33 questions so the most i can miss is three to get an A. :S gosh. i've spent most of my time on the computer trying to finish the video. it's pretty fun actually. tho the first day i spent all day working on it and my eyes were so tired. but seeing as it is already 9:10pm... on 9/10! wow! hee hee. time to start working on it again. i shall leave you with

True Wisdom from Dr. Head
(my phys. geography teacher)

"so when you see a tornado comin, go to the [center of your house] bathroom. close the door. sit in the bathtub. so that when that tornado comes and rips up your house, you have something to ride in."

"let's say one day you're at the beach. then a baby elephant comes trumping along and sits on you. is it heavy? just like cold air. it sinks."

"you can demonstrate this on a saturday afternoon. just lay in the grass on a hot day and stare up at the sky. eventually you'll see this black speck circling around you. what is this? it's a buzzard checking you out isn't it?"

"is acid rain bad for the trees? do you take your saturday evening baths in chlorox?"

Disco lights lure baby turtles to death outside Greek park

LAGANAS, Greece, Sept. 5 — Disco lights are luring baby turtles to their deaths on the fringes of a Greek marine park in the Mediterranean Sea. Environmentalists say rare loggerhead turtles scramble out at night from eggs in the sand on beaches in the west Greek island of Zakynthos and instinctively head for the brightest horizon — normally the white foam of waves under the stars. But neon lights from discos and cafes along the back of the beach at Laganas, built for tourists who also go for boat trips in the bay to try to spot turtles, are often fatally brighter.

:'( stupid dancing greeks.

Wandering

I was wandering through the engineering building when i came across this room:

"Distance Learning Classroom"

posted on the door: "No students allowed!!"

heck yeah!!

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omigosh....

i still have those bryn alan grad previews. where i'm shaking dr. edwards hand. oops.



went on a "scavanger hunt" with my engineering group today. we were sposed to go to different buildings, have them confirm we were there by stamping the date on our paper. we had to do most of it within an hour since 2/5 of us had a class. that pretty much sucked. if i did that every day i'd be in pretty darn good shape lol. gosh it was so humid. i'd tell you i was sweating buckets but that's just gross and unpleasant rite? we had 3 more stamps left when 2 had to leave. so we went to the gym, grabbed two people, got the stamp. *evil laughter* they had to write down the number present also. walked into student academic resource center, forgot to get 2 people. found 2 people but they had just come out of where we needed to go. tricky, they might have revealed our hasitly devised evil plot. so close! "okay how many people are there... ONE TWO THREE...." "oh and those two" "FOUR FIVE". that was so close! friday we still have one more stamp which is in the MECA lab. apparently in the engineering building even tho the engineering academic resource center had NO IDEA where that was. strange employees. volunteers. w/e. hardly any building knew what we were doing so they were all pretty confuzzled haha.

only a 3pm class tomorrow. yay!

SSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY! TURTLES! MANATEES! PENGUINS! POLAR BEARS! WHALES! SEALS! DOLPHINS!

um, went to sea world today. :D pleasant. i really do think the best moments come when we DON'T bring the vid camera. lol. we took a backstage tour of the wild arctic area. saw all the animals the guide talked about, except for the beluga whales, plus a ball python! trainer just happend to be outside with one. anyway we saw a polar bear come up to the window, seals playing with each other, aannndd we (family and i ) GOT TO PET A PENGUIN!! tres mignonne. it pooped right before it went on the trainers lap so we didn't have to worry about its ability to poop 4-5ft out. the other penguins were staring at us. two of them were beak battling to show who was the dominant. they sound kinda like seals when they make noise!

then we saw a lot of shows:

Rico and Roza's Inn- a show performed at the place we ate. nothing sea world related really. theme- "food, family, fun"

Odyssea- human performers that acted like undersea things. oyster's pearl, seaweed, penguins. at first i thought the penguins were some kinda snow monkeys...the costumes made it a bit confusing. the most interesting were these tube worms that were actually giant slinkies. kooky.

Dolphin show- flips, twirls. they also featured what are called "false killer whales". they look like killer whales except slenderer and no white on them

Pirate show- featured sea lions, an otter, and a hugungous walrus! it was so pink too.

Shamu Rocks America- always cool to see shamu rocking america. also had a whale twice shamu's size (1200 lbs)

pitiful fireworks show- it was like.... 3 minutes long.

we also went to the manatee exhibit. there was one manatee that squished its face against the glass and it looked like it was making eye contact with my sister. so cute! we also went to the dolphin cove (boo! dolphins wouldn't come close to me.), and turtle point! yay :) they don't really do anything but swim around but one of them was surely coming up for air and looking right at me. hee hee. these are the sea turtles i'm referring to by the way. i think it was a hawksbill or kemp ridley that was looking at me. aaanndd lastly... my sister went on Kraken, rollercoaster, 2ice in a row! always such a thrill. the first time i looked good in the pic but we were cut off. i'm not one of those people that tend to look terrified in those pictures, i usually look like i'm having such a happy experience. the second time i was so cheesed up. lol. "exaggerate smile.... now!" but we bought it anyway. we look so tan lol.

that's it in a nutshell. excuse me. a turtleshell. good nite.