More dolphin Christmas fun!

Lily and her candy cane even made it on the homepage of the Good Morning America website!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

And by town, I mean the Georgia Aquarium! Scuba Claus stopped by for a visit with the dolphins yesterday!!!! :)

Looks like I'll be here a while!

So today I got bumped from a seasonal to full-time apprentice trainer! Guess that means I'll be in Atlanta past January! I'm pretty excited to be living somewhere for longer than 6 months for the first time since graduation! I still won't really be making much (any lol) money, but at least I'll be a real adult with vacation days and benefits and whatnot! :)

Olympic Swimmers

Today we did a PR with some Olympic swimmers and then took a team picture with them!


I'm on the far left, and pay no attention to the fact I look like a bald man. hahaha The dark haired girl in red is Amanda Beard...she's kind of a big deal in swimming and has like 7 Olympic gold medals!

I PASSED THE SWIM TEST!

Basically, the title says it all. I finally took the Georgia Aquarium swim test today and I passed it!

5 minutes treading water? Check!
240 ft freestyle swim? Check!
120 ft underwater swim? Check!
30 ft surface dive to the bottom of the pool? Check!
Platform dive? Check!
And my sworn enemy- the haul out (aka climbing out of the pool to your feet w/o looking like a whale haha)? Check!

Not sure what this means for my future employment, but I least I have it completed!!!!! Such a relief and a weight off my shoulders!

Christmas Parties!

Last week the Aquarium held an employee appreciation/holiday party! It was held in the aquarium after hours until like 10 pm, and there was lots of food, dancing and a raffle (but I didn't win anything...bummer!) It was really fun to hang out with everyone from work!

A couple girls from the team!

A group picture of most of the team in front of the show pool!

This weekend one of the girls from the team also held a Christmas/Ugly Sweater party at her house! I picked up an ugly sweater from Wal-mart, along with some light up reindeer antlers!

We had the same sweater! :)

Atlanta has a lot of Christmas activities that I plan to partake in over the next month, so expect a lot more Christmas posts! :)