Well the first 48 hours have been a great one, i was planning on just relaxing on the Saturday but Ken asked me if i wanted to go to his saxophone lesson which i did. Met a Scots man who supported Manchester United, and man after my own heart. We chatted about the floods that were over here a few weeks ago and also abit about his life and how and why he moved to oz.
Ken was given 3 new pieces to learn, the pink panther, phantom of the opera and and Abba melody. These are the pieces he will have to play in a couple of weeks in the band show. i asked Ken if he could teach me the basics, as if i could learn an instrument i would have loved to have been able to play the the sax, so in a couple of days i was going to have my first play on the sax.
After Kens lesson we took a drive around Ipswich, where i went on top of an old water tower and had a good look over the town. If you looked very carefully you could even see Brisbane (24 miles away), was shown where Kens kids used to go to school, and eventually went to McDonalds to have a cappachino and hot chocolate in the McCafe, yes i said McCafe it has its own little cafe where you can get cakes and hot drinks. We made our way back to the house in what must have been 38 degree heat. Its a good job the car had air con or i would have melted to nothing.
Finally got back and decided to just mong about by the pool. I was so looking forward to my steak (t-bone) for dinner. At around 10pm me and Ken decided to go for a swim in the pool, by the time we got out it was about 11 and i was ready for bed. Ready for going to SeaWorld in the morning.
Sunday 20th February 2011
SeaWorld today !!!!!
Left at 9, and took nearly 2 hours to get there. The weather was again baking hot, we managed to get our national VIP passes and headed for the penguin enclosure. OMG, Kylie did the funniest thing and decided to walk like a penguin
We then made our way back to the pirate show, which started at 12.30. By this time we had everything panned out in terms of seeing all the shows (Sea Lion, and Dolphin Show). The pirate show in my opinion was great, you had base jumpers and gymnasts as the actors. But what i didn't find funny is the way us pommy's are portrayed as having some posh high brow accent. It was so bad that after the show you could have your photo taken with some of the cast and i happened to mention that the captain (pommy) didnt have a English accent, to which the cast laughed.
From there we made our way down to the Sea Lion show, i wernt to keen on this one. But everyone else seemed to enjoy it, but watching sea lions. By the end of the show it was about 2.00pm and i was starving and had a Dominos Pizza (Just for you Ginge and Stef) and yes it was a meteor !!!!!!!! but they called it a meatosaurus.
While eating this we walked past the stingrays and polar bears and went to the dolphin show, this didn't start til 3.00pm but by the time people had gone to the loo and had a fag (mother) we just made it. WOW what a show, i had never seen dolphin since i was 7 (which i cant really remember) and boy some of the things they did was amazing. The show must have gone on for about 30 minutes. After the show it was then time to hit the sky ropes that i promised abbie i would do ! I soon realised that agreeing to this was the wrong idea, as you can see from my face in the pictures.
I was at this point 15 - 20m off the ground with just a rope stopping me from falling, Abbie on the other hand was loving it. She couldn't stop laughing at me as i was walking tentatively across the elements.
After we had 30 minutes on here, the park was closing. So we made our way back to the exit but going through the stingrays. I couldn't resist but having a feel of these slimy creatures.
Even at 5.00pm the temperature must have been in the mid 30's still, but thankfully the air con in the car cooled us all down. After another 2 hour journey home, i could relax and reminisce on the days events. My highlight must have definitely been the high ropes i did with Abbie and of course the dolphin show !!!
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