Just a quick update in relation to the theme parks we have tackled in the last few days. Aquatica is a water park that is affiliated with SeaWorld, and again, this was a park I’d never done so was keen to try it out. There was everything you’d want in a water park, so lots of slides, pools, rapids and lazy rivers. The slides varied in extremeness. The most extreme was the drop slides, whereby you get shut in a…
As you know we had our first day at a theme park yesterday and it was epic! And long! We got there for opening at 9:00am and didn’t leave until gone 6:30pm. It was the first time we’d been back to SeaWorld since my first trip to Florida in 2010 and it is fair to say it has improved immensely. There were a lot more rides and shows than I remember, situated around a big lake area, so it was…
It was a mad few days in the run up to the hurricane. As the news reports worsened, everything started to close down, people were panic buying bottled water, tinned food and other essential supplies, and the weather slowly began to turn more bleak. Our resort basically became like a ghost town. When the storm arrived in the night sleep proved difficult owing to the strong winds battering against the walls and windows, and the continual heavy rain. It was…