Dolphins

If you know me well you will know how much I LOVE dolphins. My dream job would be to work at Sea World with the dolphins. My parent's high school graduation present to me was a trip to Sea World and I got to get a wet suit on and be in the tank and touch the dolphins. No swimming, but just to be so close to them was so amazing. Yeah I totally teared up while I was in there. It was funny too because here was me, this 18 year old with a bunch of 10-13 year olds. I LOVED it! 

When I joined my home school preschool group, I found out that one of the mom's works part-time at Dolphin Quest at the Kahala Resort. Hello, dream job! She teaches the dolphins "high energy behaviors" (not called tricks any more) :-) But she basically gets to help all these people have an amazing experience with dolphins. Ok, I might be tad bit, wee bit, ok slightly jealous of her job!

She arranged for us to bring our preschool group and got us an AMAZING discount, a wonderful experience and lots of pictures! I may have been a bit more excited about this field trip than my girls! :-)

Carpooling to the Resort!

 This resort is beautiful. I looked up rooms for "kicks" and the cheapest room  in March goes for $495 a night and an ocean view goes for $775 a night! Not sure that fits our budget! Sure is a beautiful resort!

 Here they are learning about the different mammals in the ocean

 Then we got to listening to a story book about two turtles

 Then we got a rope and they kids could see how long different animals were. Like a dolphin compared to a whale. This is Curly showing off a whale's tooth!

 Lou Who is trying to do the same! :-)

 Then we went a watched the fishes and sting rays. They are teaching the fishes to swim through hoops!

 We got our life vests on and went out to the docks to interact with the dolphins! 

Insert my giddiness right here!

 Love this picture! Totally my daughter!

After that FUN and AMAZING experience, we went and fed the sea turtles.

Thank you for an AMAZING field trip. It was seriously so much fun and I am glad my girls got to learn  and interact with my favorite animal! I feel so spoiled having great friends with great connections!