delilah the dolphin & other fun stuff...

on friday at the beach, we visited gulf world, which is like a mini-sea world aquarium place in panama city beach. lately, the dolphin has become a favorite animal of mine -- in fact, i love them about as much as i do my old duckies. at gulf world, i actually got to touch & feed a real dolphin!! our dolphin is named delilah & she is 38 years old! at first i was hesitant about touching her, but i warmed up to her pretty quickly! i did pretty well at patiently following the instructions of delilah's trainer so that i could interact with her.

in the first pic, you can see me feeding delilah a fish as a reward for following commands. i cannot believe i actually touched the fish!! in the next picture, i am rubbing delilah's belly.

you can also see some of the tricks that delilah performed for us. ("us" was just me, mommy, and one other little girl that you can see in these pictures. so my encounter with the dolphin was pretty up-close-and-personal.)

gulf world also put on a big dolphin show. sometimes i have trouble paying attention during things like this, but this show was very exciting! here, you can see one of the dolphins is throwing her trainer up into the air!

on friday afternoon, of course we went to the beach again. i enjoyed running in the waves & throwing sand some more. daddy brought a kite & he let it fly up ReaLLy high!