Sea Life Park

Hawaii is gorgeous! We arrived on Saturday night, ate Hawaiian food at Zippy's, then slept like logs. (Although Connor slept pretty well on the flights, it was still a long day.)

On Sunday, Tutu Katy (Connor's grandma) threw a party for Connor, so we got to meet more family and friends. Connor had a blast playing with the bubble maker his great Aunt Annie got him (photos of that will be on his blog).

Then, on Monday, we went to Sea Life Park. It was a somewhere between a large aquarium and a small version of Sea World, with tanks to look in,



outdoor exhibits,





a touching station (we met a turtle),



and shows (we caught the sea lion and dolphin shows).













This particular park is the only one (at least that I know of) which has a wolphin. In case you haven't guessed it, that's a combination of a whale and a dolphin. This particular surprise resulted when a whale and a dolphin got - well, we'll say "friendly" - one night when the gate between their tanks was mistakenly left open.





Another thing that made this particular park different was the spectacular Hawaiian views.







There was even a lighthouse!



(But Ocracoke is still my favorite, of course.)