Framed

Day 418

Yay, we woke up earlyish today.

So we got in the car and pointed West and drove. I decided to have a play with the cruise control because it's not something I've had before.. It's so nice. The road we took was basically 65-70 mph the entire way so.. Set it to that and steer. It was strange at first but it appears to save a lot of fuel with the constant speed and no accelerating from yourself going up hill and stuff.

Busch Gardens is a pretty cool place. It's based off of African counties I believe and each section is named after a different country. We bought fast track just to be on the safe side.. Turns out it just wasn't very busy so we didn't use it too much. Seemed too quiet for a Saturday. The rides that we went one were good, what we noticed was their rides are a lot longer than British ones, easily being over a minute. Compared to British rides - we have the edge. No question, faster, more daring and more thrilling. All the rides were sort of like the little rides you'd go on at Thorpe Park because you walk last and see a short queue time.

One thing I will mention.. For people who like rides like detonator where they drop you straight down to the ground.. They have a ride under construction there call Falcons Fury - 300 feet tall. NOPE!

The thing I liked the most was all the animals. Which you didn't have to lay to see like the Animal Kingdom at Disney. There were tigers, ocelots, slow loris, bush babies, flamingos, snakes, otters.. I like animals. As you can see from the bottom we bought a picture which comes with a nice frame, it's not in all it's glory at the moment as we need to remove the protective plastic but we are going to wait till we are home home.

We didn't stay for too long because the heat was getting to us, it was the secnd hottest day we have had being out here.. What we found odd is that we had driven across and entire state. It was further away from home where we usually are! 

We headed home and chilled for a while, it was nice to be in the air conditioning. We then headed over to Cracker Barrel for tea. This time, I tried the sugar cured ham so it was like gammon just not as salty. It was so nice, it just ripped itself apart. Amy had char grilled chicken, can't go wrong there. It's a nice place to eat, everyone is so nice and friendly and they bring you refills when your glass is half empty. We waited 5 minutes for the food and they said sorry for the wait. Service.

The rain - it was mad. We couldn't see the lake behind the villa it was so heavy and that's about 20-30 meters away. It lasted longer than what we'd had before but still not as long as England. Probably find more rain fell but it doesn't last as long. Dried in half hour too.

We went swimming in the dark; the pool has lights so we could do that. Two bouncy balls were in the filter and they are designed out of this strange.. Squishy stuff. It bounces on water basically. It's pretty cool to play with. 

Tomorrow's plan of action is Sea World as it turns out.. It's only half hour from the Villa and no where near Tampa where Busch Gardens was. No idea why there is a bus between the two. We'll let you know of course.