Swimming with dolphins!

We spent 30 minutes playing with Lilo, a 12 year old bottlenose dolphin. She was awesome! She shook hands (well, fins) with us, caught balls, did airborn tricks, gave us kisses, sang for us, played waterfight, and even took us for rides (she swam upside down as we hold her fins and get pulled along at breakneck pace). She was heartwarmingly friendly and playful, and it was surprisingly unscary to swim around with such a huge animal with sharp teeth…

Afterwards the kids pretty much forced us to buy dolphin toys and the have played dolphin ever since!