Day 2 of our trip...
07.21.2003 Monday
We had planned to do all of the Ripley's stuff today.(Like the Believe it or Not! Museum, etc.) I had purchased a combo pass to four of its attractions a while back on the Internet. The included things to do were: Ripley's Aquarium, Believe It or Not Museum, Haunted Adventure, and Moving 4-D Theater. I was informed to pick up the passes for all events at the aquarium, so that led us logically to the aquarium first.
We started with a breakfast at the hotel eatery, which was ok, but I noticed their OJ sucked. Anyway, we made our way to the aquarium, where we found proof that the people down there were rude, as they cut in front of us with families of 8, bumped into us without saying "excuse me," and stared and stared at us like we were living in the 1800s because of our mixed cultures. Ignoring these issues, the aquarium was a pretty cool place. It had many fish, rays, turtles, and sharks. Its main attraction was a tunnel with a motorized walkway which led you through a sea of sharks and fish. The sharks were swimming all around you, and you could see their teeth up close. Needless to say we used our first roll of film at this place. Of course, you had to exit through the gift shop, so we walked through and glanced around, and then the power failed. It gave me an image of a Jurassic Park-esque adventure. The sharks had been scheming to take over this place and escape into town. They were tired of tourists gawking at them. But the backup generator took over and lights on. We left.
On to attraction #2. The museum. The next 3 places were all located together, but at a different location, so we had to drive a bit to get there. We hit the museum, and it was what I expected. It was kind of hokey-pokey in that it was cheesy like that tv show, but it did have some cool things in it. But there's only so much I could take of seeing the bearded woman or the cow with an arm growing out of it's back. Freak show.
We walked slowly down the road to our #3 stop, the Haunted Adventure. This place was just a haunted house that you may see around Halloween, but it was pretty neat. It started in an old elevator stuffed with 8 people. You are then instructed by the guy in makeup to form a chain and walk through the house, which we did. Much of it was total darkness, so it was difficult. A few little scares, but nothing major.
A few door down was the last place, the 4-D Moving Theater. We went in to this waiting room with about 20 other people with nothing to do but wait for the next showing. They had this tv that kept spooling the safety rules over and over and over again. It was poison for your eyes. Finally, we were let in after about 20 minutes of waiting. We were definitely looking forward to this part because they have one of these in Universal Studios, and it's like the Terminator coming at you and there's smoke and mist. It ended up being lame. We were a log that moved through a mine on one of those mining carts, and it looked like the tracks were a roller coaster, and we, as the log occasionally fell into water and got mist-ed. Why a log? Couldn't they come up with a more interesting idea?
We left the final attraction and saw a gift shop across the street known only as "The Gay Dolphin." I wondered what definition of the word gay was implied. I still don't know, but the shop was garbage.
We left for the hotel, but decided we needed some snacks and drinks for our room, so we cruised down King's Highway and found a CVS. We snagged Cheerios, bowls, spoons, milk, OJ, iced tea, a big-ass jug of water, sweet roasted nuts, and a bag of pretzels. We headed back to our room with a plentiful booty. Yarr.
As usual, we did not know where to eat lunch, so we utilized the in-room guest book and found a tiny Italian place. We jumped there and ate salad, raviolis, and a broccoli roll. Pretty good food.
Since it was still a nice day, although a bit late, we decided to head to the beach. It was about 4, and I figured I wouldn't get burned by the sun at this time as badly as noon. We got set up on our spot around 4:45, and hit the water, which was warm and comfortable. We stayed in wave after wave until almost 8, when we decided we should probably eat some dinner.
We got back to our room, showered, and found out it was 8:30 and we didn't want to eat anything big, so we'd get BK. I first hit Green's Discount Beverages for some JD coolers-Lynchburg Lemonade and Hurricane Punch...Well, we waited in the drive thru for about 20 minutes and then when we got our food, my chicken sandwich was blackened, and we were missing a fry. Bloody savages. This resulted in my kicking and cussing back at the room.
Thus concludes day #2 with a pissy outlook for the rest of the week based on rain in the forecast and the ending of day 2.
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