Birds, fish, Titanic and shopping

Florida 2011, Day 9, part 2:

After our encounter with the angry little squirrel we headed over to the aviary.

They give you bird food if you want to feed the birds and a card to try put names to what you see:

We didn't stay long before we headed over to the Grand Reef:

My mother sat herself in a sun chair while I waded in a little to get some fish pics. I didn't stay long because frankly being in the water with those rays creeps me out:

and once I spotted this giant sitting right beside me I was out of there:

We headed back to serenity bay again.  I thought it was kinda cool going under all the waterfalls:

Once I was finished with the Lazy River it was getting near park closing time so we went to get washed and dressed and collect the photos. We then waited for a shuttle bus to bring us back to Seaworld and I took pics while we were waiting:

Once we got back to Seaworld we got the iride from there to the hotel. We got to the hotel at about six and after we put warmer clothes on decided to give something else a try on International drive that we wanted to see last year but never quite got to.  Just up from our hotel there was a kind of exhibit of Titanic stuff called Titanic the Experience:

It was 21.95 which we thought was a little expensive but decided to do it once to see what it was like. A guy dressed up like someone from third class acted as a kind of tour guide around the exhibit putting on an Irish accent. The exhibit takes you from the booking office right through various areas of the ship and the guide telling stories from the ship along the way.

The tour with the guide ends when he takes you to a kind of memorial room it has all the names of all the passengers and crew on the walls and after a video about Titanic the names of the passengers that survived light up and they invite you to see if the name of the passenger on your boarding card survived or not. This leads into a room full of newspaper bits from the sinking and props from various movies made of Titanic:

Of course as all good attractions do it finished up in the gift shop. Where they had key-rings, blankets and even fake heart of the ocean necklaces:

It was interesting to see once but sad at the same time with the stories of Titanic. I always question whether things like that are morally right making money off the memory of such a tragedy but then I suppose it's also a way to keep the memory alive of Titanic and all the poor souls that lost their lives. We were talking to two other people on the tour thing at the same time as us and they said it was their 5th time doing it because there's a different guide every time not always third class either and they tell different stories every time.
After that so we went for a spot of retail therapy checking out the various gift shops on International Drive. I was loving all the grumpy t-shirts:  

Chocolate right?! Would you really trust this?

This one kinda summed me up to much to leave behind:  

We went back to the hotel then for an early night as we had a busy and long day the next day.