Another amazing week has gone by and I am still loving it. I can't believe that I only have 5 more weeks until I am back at school. This summer has just flown by!

Last weekend I had 3 days off from work and it was nice to catch up on some sleep! On Monday night, my roommates and I went to dinner in Waikiki. Then Tuesday we went to the Polynesian Cultural center. It was so beautiful there and the place was huge. We walked around to all of the different areas of the park and each area represented a different island. There were shows and activities going on everywhere. Then we went to the luau where we enjoyed the food and listened to all of the singers and watched the dancers during dinner. After that, we saw the night show. It was amazing! There were different dances and songs from each of the islands. There were even people walking across fire. It was a very entertaining show! I was so tired though because we didn't get home until midnight (after riding the bus for 3 hours) and lately I am used to going to sleep at 8 or 9.

On Sunday I just relaxed and enjoyed my day off. I bought some groceries and then went to the beach for a little while. On Monday I went scuba diving!! I went with 2 of my roommates to the west side of the island for a day of scuba diving. We dove with a diving shop in Kailua and we all had a great time. The weather was perfect and the scenery was beautiful. I did 2 dives where we toured the reef and just enjoyed watching all of the fish. It was very different from Florida because the coral here is hard coral, but it is still beautiful. The highlight of the dive was seeing a turtle that swam right by me! I was tired at the end of the day but it was worth it! I did take some pictures with an underwater camera so I am going to try to get them developed this weekend. I hope some of the pictures came out ok.

Work has also been extremely fun this week! I am still cleaning a lot but every day it seems like I get to spend more and more time with the animals. Yesterday in particular was the best day so far! I got to work with Kermie (the wholphin) with her primary trainer (Amy). I got to do all sorts of husbandry behaviors and I had 30 minutes just to play with her! I even got to ask for her high rise ( one of her new behaviors where she jumps out of the water and touches a ball with the tip of her rostrum). Later that day I did interactions with Keimakani and Kamoana (our 2 Pacific bottlenose dolphins). I even got a belly ride from Kei! After that I was in a program with Buster (one of our blind dolphins) and one of the other trainers (Jesse). Because Buster is blind, all of the signals for his behaviors are tactile. For the first time I got to ask him for one of his behaviors. Then at the end of the day (after all of the cleaning was done) my boss, Scotty, told me to grab a life jacket because we were going to swim with the dolphins. I got to do a double foot push with Maui and Buster and a belly ride with Maui. It was a great day! The end of today was fun too, because I got to do another double foot push with Maui and Buster and another belly ride with Maui! I love swimming with the dolphins everyday!

This is random but I even saw a celebrity today! When I went to lunch, I saw the man who is the boss in The Closer, the owner of the newspaper in Spiderman, and the dad in Juno. I couldn't believe it.

Well that's all I have for now. I will try to take my camera to work from now on and maybe get some pictures of me with the dolphins. I love you guys!