Day 3: 11-4-08

Voting Day. Don't worry, we did absentee ballads. I wonder how things will go, and how will it affect security in the parks after they are announced. I slept in a little later-8am. Got my coffee and finished writing about our packed day yesterday. not sure what we are doing today. Our rough itinerary was to go to Sea World. Waiting for Jon to get up again. Doing our first loads of laundry. Forgot to mention-on the flight here a lady next to me spilled her pop down my leg and onto my jacket that was on the floor. Hence, doing laundry.

I did some research on the areas we want to visit using the Unofficial Guide to Florida. I really want to go to Animal Kingdom and Sea World. MGM won't take too long-but they have a night show and so does Magic Kingdom.

Sea World was kind of a dud. Not worth getting the free entry for a second day. We started at Dolphin Cove, Manatee Rescue, then Kraken. Kraken seemed to be the only good thing about Sea World. We went on twice. Once to find out where the camera was, second time to pose for the camera. Then we went to the Penguin Encounter and Shark Encounter. Also pretty cool because you are in a tunnel and the fish and sharks are all around you. The Clydsdale Hamlet was cute. Those horses are huge. I got film of them when we were next to the Shamu exhibit.

We missed the Shamu show and there wasn't another one until 5:30pm. We had just missed the 1:30-not worth staying 4 hours for the next showing. We'll catch it next time and just for the show. On our way out we stopped at the Dolphin Nursery. We went back to the hotel for a quick lunch. Sea World is right next to the hotel so this was easy and cheap. About 3:30 we left for MGM, which is now called Disney Hollywood Studios. Got a couple of pictures at the beginning then raced to Tower of Terror-also as been renamed-got a FP for this also. Then we went to the Rock-n-Roller Coaster for another FP. You can't have two at once so we went on this one. There was a 30 min wait. We were racing everywhere because the park closed at 7pm. We only went on those two rides then waited over an hour in the bleachers for a show called Fantasmic. AWESOME! It was hard to take photos of this show, it was mostly a spray of water with a "movie" projected on it. There were bits of Mickey appearances and at the end a boat came by with all the characters on it.

We went back to the hotel for Garmin to find a Mexican restaurant. Two couldn't be found, third one was found and was great. Back to the hotel-chillin, watching food network and poll results.