The trip really kicked off on day two with a visit to Sea World.
Gina’s cousin Ginger and her husband, Mike, drove over from Houston to hang with us for a few days. Ginger, Abby and Gina braved certain dousing to ride the whitewater raft ride.
The sea lion show was pretty good.
While everybody was inside waiting for the Shamu show to start I wandered over to a nearby duck pond and shot a few birds.
This is the face Abby makes when she’s enjoying something and talking about it. She wanted to sit where the killer whales could splash her and splash her they did. I stood way in back out of the designated splash zone and shot her with a long lens.
Some of the animals seemed resigned to their fate.
We located a Grimaldi’s Pizza out in the suburbs somewhere and had to go. We first encountered Grimaldi’s last spring break in Brooklyn. It’s one of the famous pizzerias in New York City, but we didn’t realize there were locations elsewhere in the country. The atmosphere was nothing like the Brooklyn location but the pizza was just as good.
They even personalize the urinals at Grimaldi’s.