For those who don't know, this is a manatee.

Aren't they cute?!

August 17th 2011, America

OK! wow, today was just...cool. So, we woke up early...again

BECAUSE:

WE were going Kayaking in the mangroves!

So, the drive was about and hour and 8 minutes but took a bit longer to get there because my dad had to stop and pick up stuff for our lunch as well as our breakfast. After this it was easy breezy, except for all the tolls we had to go through. At least I was asleep through all of it ;3

When I did actually wake up we still had a little bit to drive and so I did what anyone would do:

Eat a Doughnut.

ha!

When we arrived we got changed into our swimsuits and met up with our tour guide, Ric (an old hippie who has been living in florida as well as kayaking all his life, and that's the way to go when it comes to tour guides!). He was really nice and actually had a sense of humor, which is ALSO a good thing when it comes to tour guides, so, all were happy! As we set off, he showed us

many different birds and trees, but we wanted to see some manatees! Those things are ADORABLE!! They are so fat .

^ ^

{-…-} -That was an attempt at a manatee.....

After a while of paddling we had seen some really pretty storks, herons, Tons of fish jumping out of the water (one almost got into my Kayak!!), Pelicans (GAH!!! My favorite!!!), egrets and eagles, we came to a bunch of houses looking out onto the mangroves (I was thinking to myself: "psh some tour! what are ya' a real estate guy?!"), and by those houses was an air conditioning pipe with fresh water running off into the salt water (this is ok, it doesn't harm anything because under the salt water are actually fresh water deposits (or whatever they're called :3), and manatees, being mammals, drink fresh water, so Ric took us here to see if there was any...and there were. There were 2 of them, a mom and her baby, and both of them were drinking. We were able to see their whole head slurping away, the mom saw us and swam away, hiding herself completely (which is crazy because they are so large) but the baby continued to drink like a pig, slurping and spraying water everywhere, it was really funny ><. Then the baby went down and we could see a swirl in the water (this is caused by there tail when they are moving because it is so strong) coming right toward me!!! Then, the manatee came out of the water and sniffed my kayak with his enormous nose:D I got so scared, because you feel so helpless in a tiny kayak! It could knock you out at any minute! But I stayed still until he went back underwater. I was a bit shaken :S As we kept going, we didn't see very much wildlife, but pretty sights. I was able to pick a seed pod off of one of the trees and still have it, it looks like a rusty orange green bean. Ric took us across an area he calls "the playground" or something like that because it's where the parent dolphins go to teach the young dolphins how to fish, unfortunately we didn't see any, but a ton of fish that were jumping out of the water, because the dolphins were pursuing them. Finally, our trip was coming to an end, and in the last few minutes we looked over and saw another manatee grazing on grass under a dock, he was eating a lot... I know now why some call them sea cows :3moo. He wasn't very interested in us, so we started paddling back after he swam in the opposite direction. All of a sudden, Ric says "Look he's coming back! Fast!!" I looked and once again all the huge swirls were coming towards ME. A huge manatee back came slowly out of the water and bumped against my kayak. He then poked his head out and nudged my hand onto his nose, as he continued to smell me! It was the coolest thing ever!! They are so gentle and kind!! My sister even pet his belly! They are like dogs! Our tour was done and we spent the rest of the day at the ocean. It was great.

Pictures from Disney!

Smile, smile, smile, smile... no. Me and my attitude, I was at the beginning of getting grumpy :D . Gotta love it!

This was when we were on a train that takes you around the park which read "stay in you seat!" It should have been: "Don't get up and dance (or it could possibly be a seizure... the world may never know!)

On the ferry/yacht going to our car, we were doing a titanic reenactment, I always have to be the man...

The little girl side coming out

Happy!

Disney Souvenirs •_-

Bask in the glory of... MICKEY HAT.

I think this is awesome beyond belief, I just wish they made them for bigger heads, because people, one size doesn't exactly fit all.

I love this T-shirt! Sometimes mens t-shirts are the coolest! Mickey looks so focused (just hope it's good music he's playin')

My cool bag ^^ I love graphic art and stuff like this!

Yea!

Wednesday, August 16th, 2011, america

WHOOP! So on this day, we went to: Disney World! We did the task ;B (that smiley is a winking hillbilly by the way)

This, for so long has been one of my many goals *tear tear*. And finally we were able to do it! Our day went like this:

~Woke up at 7am, which wasn't the most fun it could be, but I got over it.

~Out of the hotel by 8am, since t

he park opened at 9am.

~drove 5 minutes to Disney w

orld

~Spent the day!

~Got very tired and left at 9pm.

~Went swimming

~Sleepy time

So, while AT disney, it was crazy fun. We parked and only walked a short way until we reached these buses to transport us to the monorail and then rode that into the park. When me and my sister first saw the castle we said (extremely loudly) "OH MY GOD THERE IT IS!"!! Yea, we got stared at...eh, who cares, it was awesome! The very first ride we went on was my dads childhood favorite "Space Mountain". This ride was THE coolest ride I'd ever been on!! Basically you go into a dark tunnel and there are tons of cool planets and light shooting past you, then you hit hi

gh speeds and zoom on through the dark. Although my dad was holding the cooler with our lunch in it and I thought it was going to fall out, so I was nervous about that...

ha! Then we went to a ride called "the haunted Mansion" and the special affects on this one are amazing! There are holograms that look freakishly real and it's creepy as well as very fun! Then the other rides we went on are:

Mad tea party teacups

The people mover

Carousel of progress :}

swiss family robinson tree house (it wasn't really a ride though but very cool :)

Thunder mountain

Thunder canyon log chute thing (this one was almost 7 minutes long and cute because it had all these little robotic animals singing :D)

And of course cool things I saw like "It's a small world", Dumbo ride, Walt and mickey statue and much more!

That's all I can think of now actually, but we all decided we would go back again someday and finish what we hadn't! Disney for sure is expensive though, I found small lollypops for $6.00!! what the heck man! It's cheap candy! But people buy it, so they keep the prices high! I did get some cool stuff though which I will put pics up after this!

Towards the end of the day, I was starting to get grumpy because I was tired and overheated (it was like 110 degrees!) , and we were about to go, but then the disney people and all the characters got in the streets and started singing, me and my dad were like-- no...just no. and my mom and sunday JOINED the dang thing! They were singing and dancing to the Hannah montana song that was blasting and me and my dad were lugging behind hahaha. As we got on the ferry-boat (a.k.a a huge yacht) We were very content and happy and watched as the castle got farther away. Then when I jumped in the pool later on, I felt like a bird caught in an oil spill that was being cleaned with Dawn® (hahahaha.) I could fell the grime and sweat coming off my, it was gross but very refreshing!

That's all for now!

Oh, I just remembered, we went to the hall of presidents, but only for the air conditioning, not much to see in there...

I can't explain it...

NOTICE!

Read the blog from the bottom, up!!

In the hotel, with the fam.

Fake smile :)

Coffee at the lobby starbucks!

In the elevator, I love them :D