Meet Dixie our dolphin
She was fantastic. This was the highlight of our trip and worth every penny!!
We had a great lunch, lots of food choices: grilled chicken, pulled pork, roasted vegetables, chicken fingers/fries, lots of yummy deserts......very good.
Enjoyed the music while we ate lunch
We went over and did the lazy river, warm lagoon and laid in some lounge chairs to relax for a bit... We then went over the stingray area. This was very cool. The kids liked the snorkeling very much. Some of those stingrays are HUGE!!! I had one swim past me that must have been over 4 feet wide!!! just amazing...
when we were done with the stingrays, we took showers which were heavenly! The bathroom/shower facilties were incredible. As was the whole park! We headed over to the aviary to feed some birds. This was lots of fun too
We stopped and got some snacks periodically through out the day. Nice snacks!!
We left DC about 5:00 pm. On our way back to our hotel we decided we wanted to try a restaurant that we had never been to before. No chain restaurants that we had in our area that we frequent regularly. We spotted a Bahama Breeze but it was packed with people waiting outside and we didn't want to wait that long.
We saw a Charlie's Steakhouse and thought we would give it a whirl. Wow were we in for a surprise!! This is rated one of the top steak houses in the US... and the prices reflect that! We got seated and saw the menu... everything is ala carte.......Just a steak was $35.00 and that was a petite cut! Well, we were underdressed and unprepared but we figured, oh well. $250 dollars later, we left bellies full and amazed how good a steak can really taste!! We had desert and our forks came in a glass of ice chilled (we had cheesecake).....Wow....
We headed over to check in to the Hard Rock Hotel!!
