Busch Gardens

We made it into Lazydays by 8:30 am yesterday morning and dealt with Shawn Paul, our service advisor. He has won Best Service Advisor at Lazydays for the last two years and he was certainly a pleasure to deal with. He is easily the best of the advisers we have dealt with so far. We explained our problems to him and we promised a telephone call once he knew more. We were on our way to Busch Gardens quickly.

We arrived at BG shortly after 10 am and checked Buddy into the kennel, as we did last time. He had two other dogs for company this time.

Today's visit was a freebie for us because we had a BG Fun Card. This was a free upgrade for us when we visited here in January and is good for all of 2008. We focused more on seeing the animals and exhibits this time, rather than rollercoaster rides, as we did last time. Although, we just had to try the Sheikra rollercoaster again and the Congo River raft ride for the first time. Both were lots of fun. We were both absolutely soaked through on the Congo River ride. I thought the soaking from a water cannon was purely by chance, but as we left we the ride dripping wet, we saw a crowd gathered at the riverbank. Turns out they were paying 25 cents for single shots on water cannons. These cannons are aimed at the rafts as their passengers come down the river. Passengers wave at the shooters, very unassumingly.....and then they are blasted. We spent a few bucks returning the favor. Retribution is great!! It was a hot day so we dried off fairly quickly.

We spent time seeing the elephants and tigers. The tortoises were huge! The peacock at the top of this blog entry was showing off near the entrance to the Anheuser-Busch beer sampling site. Great beer by the way! The park was only moderately busy so we moved around quite easily. We never waited longer than 15 minutes for any of the rides.

I've attached a couple of short video clips of Sheikra. Pretty neat ride. Lots of screaming going on as you hang over the precipice.

We left the park just after 4 pm. There was a voicemail waiting for us from Lazydays. Our coach was ready as promised. We were on our way back to TTN Orlando in relatively short order. It was a long day but we both enjoyed the day out. Two more days, and then we are on the road home. Where has the winter gone?