A Date with Dolphins & Sea Lions

Susan & I starting our big adventure!
Ready to jump in and become friends with the dolphins.
The trainers placed a fish in their teeth and then they would swim over to us. We would take it out of their mouths and then on the count of three, toss it back to them to catch and eat it.

Doing the happy dance as we praise them for a job well done.

Kisses...

and a group hug ~ all smiles!

And kissess for Susan!

Cool dude!

And we're off! We were the last ones to have a ride from our group. The trainer asked if we wanted to go on a fast ride! Absolutely! We had a faster and longer ride than the others. One of the benefits of being last!

As you can see, we we're having a blast.

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The Sea Lions!

Here we are visiting our new sea lion friends, Marina and Cassandra.
They loved being petted. Their skin has a very fine fur. Their eyes are big and round and they have tiny ears on the sides of their heads.

Ah, they are giving Susan a giant smooch!

and now they are kissing me! It was a very fishy kiss.

"Everybody smile!"

See their toothy grins?

"Say, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Now, stick out your tongues!" Don't we look silly?

Next the trainers had them perform for us...

...up and over?!

(I know, my eyes are closed)

This one jumped up and touched the ball with her nose.

Next, one did a flip and then swam toward us really fast and

swooped up and splashed on us! They were so much fun! We loved them. They had such cute animated personalities! We will be best friend forever!