Discovery Cove part 1

Hey! This is the first post of all the posts about Florida and, like I said in the last post this is not day one of my trip but, this day was real cool so that's why this one is first.

So, this is an explanation of Discovery Cove. Discovery Cove is a place that is mostly a dolphin interaction sorta place but it doesn't only have them, it also has a coral reef place with different fish and manta rays. Across from that, there's a lazy river and in the middle it has has birds swooping over your head and fake ancient ruins under you :D Also, it is partly attached to Sea World. I can't tell you all of it to you today because my mom is kinda in charge of what I blog about and she said I should just do the Dolphin part today.

Ok, so we got up from our condo ( it's a really big place with three balconies, a kitchen, living room, 2 bathrooms, one bed room that had two twin beds, one bedroom that had a Queen bed and one that had a King bed) at about 7:OO a.m ish and got to Discovery Cove at about 8:OO. The package that we got for Discovery Cove came with a pass to Aquatica, lunch and breakfast buffet and never ending snack supply! So after we got there we had our breakfast and went to swim with the rays ( i'll talk about that in part 2 ). Before we did that we needed to get special life jackets on that kept us warm because the dolphin and manta ray pools were 75f or something like that. Along with those we got a snorkel and mask. After we went in there we went in the lazy river\bird place and then the dolphin area.

We went to nice sized building that had a grass covering the roof so it looked like a grass roof :) I am not sure what theme they were going for..... Anyways, there was a three minute movie followed by instructions like: "Please don't scratch the dolphin because dolphins that's the way they show their emotions to each other" and "When you have your dolphin ride don't kick your legs you might hit the dolphin" and some other rules. After that, we were off. We stopped at a REALLY big pool with other groups of people with dolphins we got into waist high ( for me, I am 5 ish feet) water and the instructor asked us all to call Copper! And so we did a dolphin came swimming over real fast and then, the instructor introduced Copper and herself ( Copper was SO cute!) then, gave us a a motion to do that looked like waving in sign language to do. A little after we did that Copper jumped and waved with her fin! After then sh

e told the dolphin something and the dolphin started going in large circles and so all of the group could feel and look at her. This may sound weird well, I am reading it over and it does but she felt like a really smooth rubber ball. After she explained a little about dolphins and took questions she asked, "now, who wants to kiss a dolphin?" My sisters and I raised our hands first. I went second and gave her a little one. Later after every one did it Copper went of and another dolphin named Cindy came then, the instructor explained more about them. Then a different older looking dolphin named Lester came and ( this was really fun) we went into deeper water and she said we would take rides on him! I went first this time.I held on to the the dolphin's top fin and then the dolphin pulled all of us one at a time to the end, now that was fun! After the rides on Lester she said for us the make a karate chop but don't hit she water, we did and Lester did a jump and while he jumped went back then dived into the water.

Here's a picture of me and Lester!

It was a REALLY great day!

Ok, gotta go!

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