Day Nine

Was long!!!


We woke up and finished packing, checked out, and headed to the airport. We dropped Ruth, Tom, and Esther off and then drove around to the other side of the airport to drop off Miriam for their flights home.

Once we were rid of them (:lol:) we went to Sea World. When we purchased our Discovery Cove tickets, we automatically got 7 consecutive days free at Sea World. We only had a few hours, so we first went by the Dolphin Cove, where you can pet the dolphins. Unfortunately, none of the dolphins came close enough to us. They teased us by coming just out of arms reach and we saw that across the cove some other people got to pet them. Oh well.

Then we quickly made our way to the killer whale show. Of course that was fun. When is it not? We tried to see the underwater viewing afterwards, but the whales weren't in that tank.

Instead we had strawberry banana smoothies. Then we walked around and looked at stuff. We saw the dolphin nursery that had an 11 day old baby! (Awwww.) We also saw sting rays, the tropical reef, sea turtles, flamingos, other birds, and just a bunch of miscellanous stuff. We finished off with ice cream and headed back to the airport.

We got there early to get good placement in the boarding line. We were flying Southwest and it's first come, first serve. We had some food in the food court while sitting in a comfy couch looking at an aquarium. Then we moved to the gate, sat on the floor in line, and played cards while waiting to board.

The flight crew was fun! We were laughing. The were teasing each other on the intercom, playing with the passengers, even making up and singing songs over the intercom! We did manage to sleep a bit but while we awake we were entertained.

And finally, we were home. It is 2:30 Florida time...:sleep: So I'll post more later...including photos.:thumb:

And here they are, one last time... All of the Floriday Pictures.  Navigate all of the subalbums in the side bar to see each day and each event!