We should have known better, but our curiosity got the better of us early this morning.  The concierge desk offered us breakfast and $75 cash if we would sit through a presentation about time shares.  Since it started at 07:30 AM, and was only to last 90 minutes, we'd figured that it would be over by the time the SeaW orld opened.  We were clearly mistaken.

Firstly, I'll skip most of the boring details.  Here's the lowdown on what they offered:

The "cheap" version of the time share was about $20k. The one they were pushing hard was about $25k.  Each one had an annual maintenance and association commitment of over $1k.  In exchange, you would get one week per year use of the property.  They offered a decent "exchange" program, where you could obtain use of outside properties.

We just didn't see the value in it.  Secondarily, lots of their business policies were very questionable.  They were pushing a 15.9% interest rate.  They weren't prepared for any difficult questions either, such as "what's the historical rate of maintenance fee increases?"  Eventually, they just got tired of me asking intelligent questions, and became quite unpleasant to be around.  We ended up wasting an extra 40 minutes, but gained the knowledge to never get roped into such a diversion ever again.

Our next stop was Sea World.  Although Sea World is a different park than Discovery Cove, they share common ownership.  Jessawick had a blast feeding the sea lions, dolphins, and sting rays.

Obviously, we had to go see the Shamu show.  That's one large black-and-white beast.  I was glad that I lugged around the huge 70-200 f/2.8 lens all day.  I miss having Lightroom handy.  My laptop is almost six years old, and it's just not possible to make it work in any practical manner.  I'll need to do lots of photo processing when we get home.

The walruses (walri?) were amusing.  They're larger than one would expect.

The Walrus and Sea Lion show is great.  Here's a photo of their stadium:

Also, Sea World has a section for penguins and polar bears.  Here's a good one of a penguin:

We had dinner at a carribbean restaurant.  The food was pretty good.  Orlando has this strange obsession with the Anheuser-Busch company.  Although they appears to be a great corporate citizen; I just can't will myself to like their beer.  It's such a shame that it's just so bad.