Honeymoon blog, the Final Entry

Warning- Wicked long post. Before you start reading this, get yourself a snack, maybe hit the bathroom. Grab a Pepsi. I'll wait, it's cool.

After some prodding by Mom to update, I figured I would just finish off the tale of our honeymoon so we can tell you about other stuff, like Gizmo getting shaved or starting my Master's degree

Oh, and I finally uploaded the landing video, which is in the Honeymoon blog part 1.

Honeymoon Day 3: San Diego.

Now, this was a drive.


Once you leave the Vegas area, ther are two Casinos before you hit California. I say Casinos because Calling Jean and Primm anthing but would just be fooling youself. Jean has a Casino and a gas station. Primm has a couple of Casinos, some stores and gas stations. Litterally it takes less than 30 seconds to drive threw either of them.

Then your in California. For about 2 hours, there is nothing, other than 2 rest stops. All I got to say is thank you Hertz for Sirus satallite radio. I dunno if they had much Radio out there, but I had tunes.

Then you hit Barstow. I market Barstow with a red dot on the map. After Desert for 2 hours, a city is quite a nice change. That, and it marked the end of desert. The first half of the drive is all desert. But then you hit Barstow, and your in the mountains.

Before Barstow


After:


Funny thing was that up to Wednesday, I was nervous driving this, because as you can see on the map, we go through Los Angeles. But as I was driving, I realized a simple truth: Nowhere is worse than Boston..

And I was right. The whole drive was cake. Heck, even the directions were easy. Get onto Las Vegas Blvd. Turn Left onto Tropicana Ave. Get on onto I-15 South. Turn onto I-8 West. Turn right at the sign for Sea World. The end.

Speaking of Sea World:

SEA WORLD

5 hours after leaving Las Vegas, Bam. San Diego is wicked beautiful. I can see why it costs a bazillion dollars to live out there.


Well, we started by roaming around for a bit. We saw some killer whales


The Bat Rays:


The bat ray (Myliobatis californica) is an eagle ray found in the shoreline of the eastern Pacific Ocean, between the Oregon coast and the Gulf of California. According to the "Sea World Guy", Bat Rays feed on mollusks, crustaceans and small fish on the seabed. They also feed on Barbie's hand.


It was kinda funny. We bought some fish to feed em, and the "Sea World Guy" said to put the fish between your fingers, and it would suck it right out. Well, this big guy sucked Barbie's whole hand in.... She almost lost the ring

Then we fed the Sea Lions.


Man, these guys got noisy when you start feeding them


We checked out some other stuff, but to Keep this entry under 10 pages, lets skip to the Dolphins.

The Dolphin Interaction Program, i.e. Barbie and the Dolphins.

Well, we checked in, and I paid a little extra to attend the class beforehand. Then she went and got changed. I hung out with some lady who's daughter was taking the D.I.P. too. SHe's the one Barbie is next to in the video's and pictures. Speaking of which:

This is the only good picture I got of Barbie and the Dolphin because action can be a pain to cpature with film... So I recorded a few videos. These are the best two:






I think I dune gud. =)
(I bet you wished you grabbed that pepsi...)

AFTER SEA WOLRD

Well, it was about 6 pm local time(9pm EST) when we left Sea World, and I already knew is was gonna be hard to make it to Vegas. Then I started to fall asleep around Victorville(check the map, it's on there). Enought for one day we decided, so we decided to bunk down for the night. Thats where the Travel Inn came in. 40 Bucks a night? Not too shabby.

Well, actually, it was pretty shabby


Wow, it was bad. All they need to be a real hole was rent by the hour.
The Bed felt like laying down on a cardboard box, the door to the outside was an inside door(like on oyur bathroom) with no deadbolt or chain or latch. The Curtain in the bathroom were nailed to the wall, and the nails were driven in all the way, just bent back.

But hey, it had a pool:



Day 4: Tournement of Kings
Well, after The grad excursion, we were demolished. We could have really just come home then, but we had two days to kill, so the first night, we got tickets to The Tournement of Kings at the Excalibur. I though neat, fighting a food, sounds like an evening.

Well, There was food.

It wasn't bad. The "Dragon's Blood" soup was served first, and Barbie turned to me and said "This tastes familiar." Then we figured it out. It tasted like Spagetti-o's without the O's. Wasn't bad. Then we ate chicken, broccoli and potato wedges with our hands. New experiences abound.

Now, we don't have alot of pictures cause they said "Camera's didn't exist in the King Authur's time, so you can't use em." But They served us Pepsi in plastic cups, and the bad guy used a flamethrower, so I guess hypocrisy has no bounds.

The fighting part was iffy. It was way too predictable. And they sang alot for people supposedly fighting.

Here is our knight, from Russia


And here is the "arena"


LAST DAY
We were barely hanging on at this point. Barbie was feeling ill, and we decided to just do one thing, somthing I wanted to do.


Star Trek The Experience.

Now, again, we don’t have too many pictures cause
1. A majority of it are Virtual Rides
2. We were dead tired.

And we only did one ride, the Borg ride. We skipped the Klingon one cause we would have had to wait 30 minutes, and Barbie was going downhill by the second.
But it was pretty neat, a nice combination of live action and 3d virtual ride.


And we say our first Ipod Vending machine on our way out....



Conclusion:


Wow, this entry has been a doozie. It has taken me all day to put it together.
Vegas was a blast.
And I will leave you with the one thing, if you ever go to Vegas, you should see if you see nothing else.
The Fountains at the Bellagio