Chapter started: April 12, 2010.
Chapter finished: April 23, 2010.
Author's Note: Well, here's the new one and like I said this will be one of my favorites because of my favorite (water) mammal being in it! XOXO
- Jessica
=ANFF: B.E. - la Casa Encuentra al Raton=
-Chapter 8: SeaWorld Orlando-
(April 2010 – Orlando, Florida)
"MORNING WILDCATS!" Gabriella dressed in a zebra print triangle string bikini top from Victoria's Secret with matching low-rise zebra print bikini bottoms that sat underneath her medium wash Aero denim skirt and her blue Aero allover floral design tank top, and Sharpay dressed in her pink polka dots on a pink string bikini top and bottom bikini with the same outer clothes (just the shirt was in pink), squealed their greetings at the gang as they all got into the limo after they had stopped with their dad's to pick up everyone from the hotel after having went to eat out at Bob Evans' this morning for a Daddy-Daughter breakfast.
"GREG, VANCE, AGAIN, SERIOUSLY!" The boys all yelled at the two dads.
"HIYA, GUYS!" Taylor, Martha, and Kelsi squealed their greetings also at the Wildcats.
"THEM TWO? SERIOUSLY?" The boys all yelled again this time at Bryan McKessie, Dustin Cox, and Jacob "Jake" Nielsen – the dads' of Taylor, Martha, and Kelsi.
"Sorry," the dads all told the group as they smiled at their daughter's who were all snuggled into their sides.
"Uh huh, I highly doubt that," Chad told them.
"Whatever," the dads all said together again.
"So, how was breakfast?" Lucille asked the father and daughter groups.
"Amazing," came their replies with bright smiles.
"And the walk?" Inez asked them.
"Great," they all replied again.
"Wait, you guys went on a walk this morning? Since when have you all been up?" Chad asked them.
"Well, seeing as it's ten, we've been up since eight," Taylor told her boyfriend.
"Why?"
"Because we just felt like it," Taylor simply replied before she shushed him, laying her head on her dad's shoulder and closing her eyes that were hid under her black Chanel (CC) sunglasses.
"Wow!" Chad explained.
"SHHH!" The dad's all hissed at him causing the rest of the group to snicker while Chad just glared at all of them and pouted.
(SeaWorld – Orlando, Florida)
"Okay, why did the limo drop us off so far from the park?" Chad whined.
"Because we can ride the tramcar up to the park, duh," Jason told one of his best friends and to prove his point he pointed at the tram that stopped in front of them at the tram stop they were standing at and let them all find a seat before slowly leaving the stop and heading towards the park entrance.
"Well, okay then," Chad replied causing them all to roll their eyes.
"Wow, Dude, wow," Troy commented, shaking his head at his best friend and seeing his confused look he said, "Nothing, Man, nothing."
"O…kay, then," Chad replied causing the ones that overheard Troy's and Chad's conversation to snicker.
Ding…Ding…
"Last stop – SeaWorld Orlando Park Entrance; we here at SeaWorld would like to thank you for choosing us to spend this beautiful day with and we would like to also suggest visiting SeaWorld's other owned parks – Aquatica and Discovery Cove. Thank you and enjoy your day! Please come again!" The driver of the tram told the guests as they got off.
"Thanks!" Many of the riders thanked the driver before they headed towards the entrance that they noticed had lots of newly and good installed self-service gate machines to buy their tickets with was at the entrance as was security for bag checks, but luckily for them they had already purchased their tickets and didn't have to go through the bag checks.
After getting drinks and going to the bathroom, they all gathered in the shade and decided on how to "dissect" the park.
"Well, first we got to figure out where we're at," Greg said causing some of them to snicker and hearing them snicker he asked confused, "What?"
"Um, Daddy," Gabriella said coming over to him and setting a gentle hand on his shoulder before using her other to point at the map that was on the picnic table and say, "We're right here…at the pavilions."
"Oh," was all Greg had to say and that was all it took for everyone to burst out into fits of laughter.
"Everyone got their drinks?" Inez asked the group after they had decided on how to "dissect" the park and after they all stopped to use the bathroom and get refreshments before starting their dissecting.
A bunch of 'yeses' where her reply and with that, they were all off, making their way around the park, starting with the right side and then going around it until they reached the pavilions again, knowing that once they reached them again, they had hit every single ride at the park. The first ride they went on was the Manta, which was a flying steel rollercoaster.
On the Manta seeing as their were thirty-two seats and twenty-eight of them, they all filled up the one train and sat in their family groups with the Montez's sitting at the very front of it and the Nielsen's rounding it off being in the very back of the train. Prior to departure, mechanisms in the station raised the cars up to the track, so that their spines were parallel to the track while two employees went around making sure that the locking lap bar, vest-like harnesses, and flaps (that were at their ankles to hold their feet in place) were all secure before they started it.
After everything and everyone was secure, the ride began to depart the station and climb up the 140-foot tall lift hill. Once they reached the peak, the train then dove down towards the right and then swooped upward, passing the attractions on-ride photo cameras prior to entering the 98-foot-tall pretzel loop. Their train then went down head-first to the ground and then climbed back to the top of the element. It next took a U-turn to the left through a pretzel loop, after which it encountered a counter-clockwise inline twist. As Manta exited the twist, it then entered a 270-degree downward helix to the right, passing close to the ground below and crossing through the pretzel loop a second time as it entered its first corkscrew. After the corkscrew, the train then began to climb up above the station's return track to reach the mid-course brake run.
Manta then entered the second part of the course by diving down towards a lagoon near the theme park entrance, and banking to the right as it approached the lagoon. The wings of the lead car then appeared or felt like it skimmed the surface, kicking up a splash of water at them before it rose again, still banked to the right, before diving again, this time towards a waterfall as it continued turning to the right. After barely missing the waterfall by inches, Manta then entered its final inversion, a second corkscrew, prior to a final U-turn leading to the final brake run and then it returned to the station.
"That was so much fun!" Chad exclaimed as they got off the ride.
"It so was…and who else got wet besides my parents and me?" Gabriella asked the group.
"We did," Troy replied as did Sharpay for their parents.
"Well, seeing as the rest of you didn't get wet, I think we'll need to find a ride that will get you all and the ones that got wet, wet, don't you agree Baby Girl?" Greg asked his daughter.
"Yes, I do, very much so," Gabriella replied as they began walking across the sidewalk and across from Manta over to the animal exhibit called "Turtle Point". At Turtle Point – an outdoor exhibit that featured rescued sea turtles in a shallow pool with a beach – they all were allowed to carefully pick up a turtle so they could look at it and pet it along with getting pictures taken with it.
After Turtle Point, they headed another animal exhibit called "Manatee Rescue" which was home to rescued Florida manatees – an endangered species and a gentle giant of the sea.
Two hours later and thirty minutes after lunch, they all found themselves hitting the last animal exhibit and the last two rides of the amusement park. So with that in mind, they decided to hit the last animal exhibit – Gabriella's favorite exhibit – Dolphin Cove, first.
"Aw, just look at them!" Gabriella exclaimed as she cooed at them with the girls and their moms'.
"They're so cute!" Sharpay cooed as she awed at them from behind the glass.
"They definitely are," Inez agreed with the girls as the ones that didn't take pictures of them, stepped away a little bit to take pictures of them.
"Excuse me," a guy dressed in a SeaWorld wetsuit said before asking, "Would you girls like to meet them?"
"Would we ever!" Gabriella exclaimed happily.
"Then please follow me," the nice man told them and together the First Family, the USA Vice President and his family along with their friends followed him. Reaching their destination, he picked up a silver bucket and stood on the edge and called for the dolphins. After some of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins came towards him, he feed them a fish and called the gang over to meet them so, with a smile he said, "Guys, this is Calla, Damara, Potter, Tiger, Bailey, Neo, and Alpha."
Smiling they all leaned down and each took turns petting the silky, smooth, wet skin of the sea mammal – the true marines of the sea – and just as trainer was about to warn Gabriella about touching Damara, she was pulled into the water by the dolphin making everyone yell her name, "GABRIELLA!"
The trainer stopped them as soon as he saw they were gonna jump in and said, "its okay guys. She'll be fine; Damara and Potter will get her. D tends to do that people that she really likes so; she should take it as a compliment….Ah, see here she comes."
"Aw," the girls cooed while the guys let out their breaths that they didn't know they were holding as they watched Damara and Potter bring Gabriella back towards them as she held onto each of the dorsal fins.
"Brie, Baby, are you okay?" Troy asked her as kneeled down to offer her a hand, but then looked at her confused as she moved from the dolphins to hold onto the edge of the ramp.
"Who me? Oh yeah, I'm fine! Great actually," Gabriella told him with a bright smile before she turned back to the dolphins and said before getting out, "Thanks for cooling me down, Damara, Potter."
"I'm sorry about that Ms. Montez, I was gonna warn you, but it was too late. I hope you can forgive me and the dolphins," the trainer said as he handed her a towel.
"Oh, of course, it's definitely not a problem. I've always wanted to be in the water with dolphins and swim with them," Gabriella reassured the trainer with a smile, making her parents and everyone else smile at how nice she was and as she said this, a thought sprung to her fiancé's mind which he made a mental note of.
Finally after riding on the Journey to Atlantis and the Kraken, they all loaded back into the bulletproof, black SUV's, that replaced the limo they had taken earlier, and headed back towards their hotel where they were all going to split into their families and dine as separate families for the night before they all met up for dessert and then for a little fun in the pool before bedtime – making it another perfect, Spring Break night to the ending of another fun and adventurous day.
TBC…
Well, there you guys all go. I hope you enjoyed this one, even though it wasn't my best. I love you guys! XOXO
- Jessica.
I wanna see that Hawaiian wedding,
I wanna see that blissful 'Honeymoon' phase,
I wanna see her bearing their child,
I wanna see that sweet little angel with its father's eyes and mother's features,
I Want To See Them Have It All
But... I guess I will have to wait...
~Z&V~