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Shamu of Seaworld Orlando is HUGE!
This is a repost with minor edits of my vacation to Orlando, Florida with my Malaysian college-mates. We went for the trip in the summer of 2006, while I was still an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Orlando Day 1 – Seaworld
We arrived in Orlando from Detroit at about 10 am, rented a car, checked in at a hotel, and out to Seaworld that very morning. The weather was really hot and humid, which kinda reminded me of Malaysia… that first day I think I sweat gallons. By the time we went home my shirt was almost entirely soaked.
Took a picture right after the entrance gates. On the ‘lighthouse’ at the back – there’s a drawing of Shamu – the bigshot celebrity orca at Seaworld.
Shamu is really BIG. That killer whale didn’t look as huge while swimming around in the water and tossing the trainers around. Once it ‘whaled’ itself onto the stage right in front of us we could see how big this mammal is compared to us humans.
I expected to be soaked by Shamu’s tail splashing but we were seated too far back to be splashed on by the orca. The audience who sat on the first 4 or 5 rows were soaked. I wouldn’t mind the soaking; it was just too hot, I’d love it if a whale would splash cold water to cool me down.
Shamu was everywhere… and almost every time we see the whale’s representation (sculpture, statue, mural, etc etc) we would stop and take a picture. I guess it wouldn’t be Seaworld without Shamu.
A shark was flying around in a dark room… nah. This was taken while we waited in line to see some sharks in an aquarium. That shark on the wall is of course fake.
We ended the day petting some dolphins. Earlier we petted some stingrays… they are cold, soft and slimy to the touch. These friendly and cute dolphins however, are hard and smooth to the touch, reminded me of a shiny motorcycle gas tank or helmet.
We did a lot more than just watching Shamu and petting dolphins, but I just want to make these entries short and simple, so tell me if you want to know more (which I’m sure nobody does).
Next day, our next destination – Animal Kingdom.
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I have been browsing my old Xanga entries and stumbled upon the Orlando posts, which brought back a lot of memories. Seeing that I used to have zero readership back then (and some small amount today) I decided to reshare the experience again here with the fairly recent readers.
Has anyone else here been to Seaworld Orlando? If you have, please do share your experiences as well, it’d be fun to recount and relive the moments =)
I shall repost Day 2 of the Orlando trip in the next post.
Disconnected
My computer has lost its internet connection for almost two weeks now.
Sorry for the lack of updates for those who expect them of me.
I am looking for ways to remedy this situation within a few days.
After that, I shall try to resume to my almost daily routine of updating.
And I shall catch up on your blogs too.
Wish me luck ok?
I need it.
Wisdom Teeth That Are Not So Wise After All
For all the time I was at the dentist’s, the x-ray of my oral region was put up in front of me. I was told (and I actually know this even before the x-ray) that my two lower ‘wisdom teeth’ are not growing correctly and are impacting the rest of my teeth.
Above is that x-ray shot of my teeth. As you can see the two bottom wisdom teeth grow horizontally and are impacting the rest of my lower teeth. I was told that I need to undergo surgery to have both of them removed.
These two ‘unwise’ wisdom teeth has been causing me a lot of problems… food get stuck easily back there and being the wisdom teeth that they are, they’re really hard to reach using the tip of the tongue to dislodge the stuck food. I find myself always having to use toothpicks to clear them, which may cause injury to my back gum and pave way for infections. It’s a good thing that I have made it my daily habit to use antiseptic mouthwash daily every time I brush my teeth, otherwise the nasty infection I got back in 2008 would come back and haunt me.
Anyways, I’m thinking of having both these ‘not so wise’ teeth extracted. I was told that the surgery might include them having to cut off a small chunk of my jaw in order to take the teeth out… which means that this minor surgery would not be as easy as it seems.
