"I've got a dream!" -Tangled

Have you ever dreamed of swimming with dolphins? Like the ones at SeaWorld?

How about some that were in the wild?

That's what I did today.

We left around seven this morning and boated down the river (Rio Negro/Black River, not the actual Amazon River yet) to a place you can swim with the pink river dolphins. Yes, they're pink. They also have a sort of goofy-looking bump on their foreheads, but they were still so cool!

We divided into two groups to get into the water, standing on a little platform close to the dock. They also had two guys down by us with fish to attract the dolphins (because ya know, the ones in the river aren't trained to jump and do tricks on command—they're legit!). As the dolphins would swim over to get the fish, sometimes they'd swim right up against your legs, but we could also reach out and pet them as they tried to get the fish.

After both groups had gone, they let us go back into the water and swim off the dock as far out as we wanted, and the dolphins just kept swimming around us as we tried to see and touch them some more.

I was a little nervous, even though dolphins are way more friendly than the piranhas we saw yesterday...

It was super fun, though! I swam way out, and had a few swim right under me! It was SO COOL.

My life just keeps getting better and better!!!

I cannot get enough of how awesome this is.