Thursday 4 August 2011

Oh my, the excitement of it all!

I've been meaning to write for a few days now, but this is the first time I've had the Internet free in 5 days. I'll explain why later.
So, I'm in America at the moment on my 'vacation'. I must say, I haven't been this happy in a long time.
This is what's happened so far-
1. I went to 'the wizarding world of Harry potter' in islands of adventure at universal studios, which just blew my mind. It was like actually being in hogsmead ( except some of the diagon alley shops were there too), and the castle was just gorgeous! The simulator type ride in the castle, 'the forbidden journey', was awesome, and I screamed just a little bit when Draco came on. ;) I got some slytherin themed stuff, like a lanyard that looked like the slytherin tie to use for college. :)
The rest of islands of adventure was awesome too, like the Hulk ride, but being a true potter head, no other place could really compete. ;)
2. Pool day, it was soooooooo hot, it's almost too hot really. It's over 100 degrees in the middle of the day!
3. AWESOME DAY. I went to sea world for the day, went on the kracken (which was awesome and massive) and watched the shows. It was really good, but I was really sweaty. :P I went to see Blue Man Group in the evening, which was really clever, so funny, and slightly terrifying. They kept going in the audience and picking people out to do stuff. They didn't talk at all, so they were really scary and stare-y. At one point, the lights went out, and I could see the guy's eyes in the dark. He was right in front of us!
After all that, we went out for tea. It was then my parents told me I was going back to sea world the next day to spend the day with a marine biologist learning about the job. This was soooooooo exciting, because my dream job is to be a marine biologist at sea world. :D
4. I got up at 5:30 to go to sea world for 6:30. The only other person with me was an English girl the same a age as me, so that was fun, we got along well. The day was just INCREDIBLE. I'm going to go through what we did-
a. Counting out the food for the otter pans and watching a baby manatee be fed.
b. Feeding shrimp to the otters (they just took it out of our fingers with their little tiny paws, so cute!)
c. Feeding 6 crates of lettuce to four hungry manatees.
d. Putting on wetsuits and going to play with the dolphins, doing tricks with them and entertaining them with toys.
e. Going to wild arctic to play with the beluga whales, getting a kiss and a high ten off one.
f. Feeding two crates of spinach to the manatees for their morning snack.
g. Meeting some seals, playing with and feeding them.
(I'm assuming you're starting to gather that we played with and fed a lot of animals)
h. Taking off the wet suits and going to the dolphin nursery. We had just got dry when one of the dolphins thought it would be funny to splash us- a lot. xD
g. Going to meet some sea lions and feeding some seals.
h. Going to the main sea lion enclosure to feed them.
i. Going to watch the polar bears in a private viewing room.
j. Meeting some ENORMOUS walruses and Playing with them, including getting a kiss on the hand from one.
We got picked up after that, but as you can probably tell, we had a pretty awesome day. :)

5. We went to Universal Studios and went on the big rides. It was good, but it was so hot we had to leave. We went shopping for a couple of hours.
6. We went to Epcot and spent most of the day inside, because it was just so hot. Luckily, some of the best things at Epcot are inside. I FINALLY got on to pottermore.

POTTERMORE- the reason for constant stress and taking up the Internet so I cannot blog.
On 31st July, 7 chances to enter early started. I missed the first three days because they were too early in the morning for us American people (i know, I'm not American, but I'm in America, so I'm on American time). The fourth day I missed it because I was out, so I was determined to get it on the fifth. I spent the whole day checking for free wifi. Eventually, and luckily, because my dad works for IBM, and we were in a zone sponsored by IBM, so my dad got onto the IBM wifi that was there, and by sheer fluke I checked onto the site just as the site was posting the clue. I knew the answer, so I was able to get through to the registration. I was in such a flustered as I was doing it! Im so impatient now to get my welcome email, it could be ages yet. :/ but at least I got on, only 1,00,000 people in the whole world get in early, and I'm one of them!

so, Im having quite an exciting time this week, and I'll post again to let you know what I'm doing.
Sorry if this has bored you, but I find it interesting, so you WILL find it interesting too ;P

Keep smiling! Xx