Orlando Day 7 - Busch Gardens

Today took us to Tampa to Busch Gardens. It was only 50 miles away but we have decided that a mile in Idaho is not the same as a mile in Florida. It's so crazy because it took us forever. It took longer than 50 minutes to get 50 miles and so it just didn't make sense. We first tried to go to an adoption agency there but no one was there. We were a little disappointed that we were never able to meet with someone. We got to Busch Garden just as it was opening. That park is awesome. 

Scott and I just went from one roller coaster to another.

  This was the 1st roller coaster we rode. It was awesome.  I was a little nervous on it but it was fun. We then did Gwazi, they had roller coaster after roller coaster to ride.  After the 5th roller coaster I told Scott I needed a break. So that ended up being walking through some of the different countries. 

 

Yes that is a kid in like an observatory with the lion right on top of him.  It was cool to be that close to them.

 Outside the lion entrance.  Topiary it's everywhere.

We found Kathy and Wade and eat lunch with them. We then went on the train ride.  The following pics are some of the animals we saw while on the train.  They were all laid back and didn't really care that people where riding this train through them.  It was like a Sahara ride.

 Rhino

 I can't remember what these are called but the flamingos in the back are actually pink so they are eating enough shrimp to turn them that color.

 Zebras

Dirty Rhino 

The next few pictures are of Scott and I just having a little bit of fun with all the statues that were around this park.  

Scott really wanted to ride the Shiekra again and so I sent him to do it. Come to find out he actually rode it 3 more times. The lines were short so he was able to go back to back on the rides. We never waited to ride any of the rides. This was the least amount of people at any of the parks that we went too.   We did the Rhino Rally which wasn't as impressive as I thought it would be.  The one in Animal Kingdom was better.  We went to Walkabout Way where we learned all about Kangaroos and Wallaby.

A picture of both.

The weather started to get crappy again and so some of the shows got postponed because they couldn't use their wireless mics when there was lightening in the area. When we got back to Orlando was listened to the news and they had over 250 accidents on the freeway because of the rain. I thought that was crazy since usually we don't usually have that many accidents even in Idaho when it snows. We got a few pictures but not as many as the other parks.