Daddy's Summer Vacation-former Photo TR, current epic fail

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

Ok, so i was just going to write a trip report about Blue Horizons, but my daughter just graduated kindergarten and is on her first summer vacation. So the plan is to do a lot of fun things we were unable to do since she started school. We used to do a couple parks or attractions a week and school ruined my good time.

I figure that I'm probably going to be doing something maybe once a week here in SoCal over the summer, not all theme parks, but a lot of off beat places my daughter likes, along with some of the major theme parks. So, ill just update instead of making separate TR's.

[edit] Kind of a failed attempt at a summer long trip report, not too much interest, so i cut it short. Still doing the stuff, just not posting anymore updates. Please note that since killing this i have removed the pictures, so there was a whole lot more crappy stuff to look at before. I kinda waited for it to fall to the third page and then just figured nobody was gonna look anyways, so why waste the space. Somebody should delete this all together.

May 28, 2010

Ok with that said lets start, fist off i went to Temecula Berry Company in, you guessed it Temecula,CA. The blueberry picking season started on the 14th, but of course i kept that a secret, because daddy was on the party bus headed to Bay Area Bash. It's fun for the kids and the blueberries are awesome. They had movie night in the evening, with personal blueberry cobbler, but we were headed to Sea World for the member preview of Blue Horizons.

Here for the member preview or Blue Horizons. At first it seemed light, but when we got over to Blue Horizons for the 3pm show there were lines all the way around the stadium. We barely got in before it was full, and were told that it was still being worked out, and that they may have to stop the show, or adjust things on the fly. The show was pretty awesome, i would put it on the level of the first time i saw Shamu Rocks, but a little more fruity. All in all, after the regular people left and the member night started it wasn't that bad crowd wise and we didn't leave til almost 11.

Heres some pictures.
(Ok, as you can see i removed the pictures, but pretty much was pictures of a U-Pick blueberry farm.)

Ok thats it for blueberries, i ate them all and have to go back when we do Belmont next month.

Ok, Sea World Blue Horizons member preview.

(Ok, there were pictures of Blue Horizons here, along with some general Sea World pictures.)

Well thats it for crappy pictures from a 2 mega camera and bad captions, for now at least. Today it's The National Orange Show in San Berdoo.

[the ghostMost women think I'm a gay donkey.]

Nice TR! I am going to Seaworld this summer for the first time in like ten years(last time I went shipwreck rapids wasnt even there) so I am really looking forward to it, especially riding Journey for the first time. I am really looking forward to taking over San Diego this summer even though my family isnt whorish enough to go to legoland, so I still have some credits to hit in the future. Anyway, keep this up as it is cool to know all the stuff thats happeniong in so cal besides theme park!

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

^San Diego has so much crap to do, check out Tiolis Crazy Burgers, it was featured on Diners Drive-ins and Dives. They have all kinds of exotic burgers including ostrich and alligator.

Ok, so i went to edit and ended up deleting the last post i did, but anyways thanks for looking, I'm gonna get the Orange Show up tonight and maybe some other stuff. Orange show had three credits including the Hi-Miler. I was unable, ok i forgot about the strawberry festival, so i missed that. Gonna try to get "somewhere" today and then Knott's on the weekend with Santa Ana Zoo. I'm also planning Belmont with maybe, Seaport Village or the the Midway, maybe both. How can i afford it, i can't, but my credit card don't know that.

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

May 30.2010

Ok, so here's The National Orange Show in San Bernardino, this is the 95th year, it's gotten pretty small, except for the ride area, which take up most of the festval. No races or monster trucks and very limited vendors. Nightly free concerts and some small shows.

There were three coasters the Hi-Miler, Crazy Coaster, and Dragon Wagon. They also had pretty much any carnival ride you could think of, ferris wheels, tilt-a-whirl, zipper, etc., sorry no kick boodie for jesus, but if jesus accepts coaster credits then a lot of you are going to heaven. So, heres some pictures, thanks for looking.

[edit] Please excuse the quality of some of the pictures, used my wifes camera and it didn't turn out well, not sure what happened.

(There were pictures of the famous, or infamous HI-Miler and the fair)
Still a few more to come.

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

OK second half of this, after i got everything resized and edited down from the crappy pictures my wifes camera took, i realized that she had taken pictures on her phone, but of course it's too late now, im not doing all this work over again. Please forgive the extra super crappy captions, i was kinda tired.

ok pictures

(Here there were pictures of the Crazy Coaster and the carnival rides)
OK, thats it for the orange show, not a theme park, but a few coasters at least.

I love your TRs! You always have unique photos and the captions are hilarious! Keep it up!

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

Ok, if you insist, i got more coming, went to the Orange County Zoo/Irvine Park Railroad. Just gotta edit down the Pictures and get them up. I have to organize what i'm doing, i have so many places to go and not a lot of time. Temecula balloon festival this weekend i think, maybe the cherry festival, all on the fly so no promises.

I'm really thinking of doing the Midway in San Diego, its an Aircraft carrier/museum later in the month when i do belmont. No, its not a theme park but inside of the ship they have a lot of different flight simulators you can ride for an upcharge, so many of you may be interested.

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

June 2,2010

Here's the Orange County Zoo, located inside Irvine Regional Park, which also houses Irvine Park Railroad. There's a charge per car to get into the park, which keeps the riff raff out. Oh, and pony rides and a snack bar.

The zoo is mainly native animals; bears, coyotes, eagles, etc.. Very small, could do it in less than an hour, but you could spend a good part of the day enjoying the entire park. Ok here's the pictures.

(Pictures of the kids zoo, pretty much farm animals)

Ok, thats it for the childrens zoo, ill get the rest of the zoo up in a little bit.

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

Ok here's the rest of the zoo, thanks for looking.

(Pictures of the other zoo animals, even a donkey.)

Ok, thats it for the zoo, but i have more shots of the park comming. By the way, if any of this gets too racey or beyond what's acceptable, lemme know.

[fatdaddyI'm 38 and can't find the Shift Key]

Here's some shots of the rest of Irvine park.
(Pictures of Irvine Park, the train and pony rides.)

Ok, that's it for this report, im working on the cherry festival so keep looking for an update.