Busy Weekend!

This week has been full of so much fun! Crystal (shes my one of my closest, dearest friends) celebrated

her birthday!

We started with dinner at Joe's Crab shack.  Let me just say if you haven't

been here yet...you must go.  The food is amazing and we chowed down on so.much.seafood.

Crab, shrimp, lobster, and craw fish!

We decided that, as part of her birthday, we would spend the weekend theme parking it up!

Saturday belonged to Sea World!

I have to say, out of all the times I've seen the Shamu show, this was probably the best one!  You really got to see a lot of the whales and all the tricks they do!  This was also the first show I saw where the trainers didn't get in the water with them.  I hope they keep it that way.

We saw lots of pretty cool sea creatures, like the sharks!!  I even touched a sting ray and saw a dolphin up close and personal!  They have this new smaller version of a dolphin cove, where they swim up to the wall and you can touch them.

We rode their new roller coaster Manta...it was terrifying.

Sunday was spent in Tampa at Busch Gardens!

I realized today that this park is a glorified zoo with roller coasters!!

The amount of animals that we got to get close to (close as in

just a thick glass separating you) was amazing.

Nothing can top feeding the birds or hand feeding a kangaroo though!!

This beautiful white tiger came over to the glass when I crouched down.

It sat there for a few short moments and looked me right in the eyes!

Certainly a moment to hold your breath when you're this close!