Catherine writes:

I just wanted to say thank you so much to you all for making my wish come true and to tell you about all the fun things we did.

Let's start from the very beginning. We left at 8:00 on April 19th, 2008. We got picked up by a limo. My sisters and I had no clue and we were so surprised. The limo was so cool and with all the buttons it was hard to find out what did what. hen we got to the airport that's when everyone started to get really excited.

About an hour later we were on our way to Miami, Florida. When we got there we met Jonathan at the baggage claim.

Then we went to our hotel the Mariott. The hotel was so pretty it had a pool, restaurant, beautiful rooms and a beach.

On Sunday we went to Dolphin Cove to swim with the dolphins. Claire, Daddy and I swam with the dolphins. We swam with Leo and Spunky. Leo was 4 and Spunky was 27. Did you know dolphins live up to 50 years old? Our trainer's name was Jenna.

We got to ride the dolphins, kiss them, they pushed us and they also did some really cook tricks like: jump, talk, bring me a present (it was a piece of seaweed) and other cool things too. One trick that I liked the best was when they pulled me around. I even got to give them the command to spin in circles and talk. That was really fun. And when my Dad and sister were getting pulled around another dolphin named Nicky (also Leo's Mom) took my Dad for a little ride even though she wasn't supposed to do that. The whole time we were there was so fun. When we finally did go back to the hotel we were all sad but so happy too.

The next day Dad and I went parasailing. That was really fun too. Me and my Dad went together. We went really high, and when we were up there we saw boats, houses and lots of islands. Everything was so tiny. They even dunked us - my shorts got all wet. I felt like I stayed up there all day but we did finally have to get down. Parasailing was AWESOME!.

Tuesday was one of our "days off" so Dad and I went scuba diving. It was amazing. We took classes in the morning and in the afternoon we went to a coral reef to scuba dive. We saw so many different color fish and coral. We even saw a sting ray and green moray eel. We also saw the Christ statue too. I lost a tooth doing it too. Scuba diving was so cool.

The next day all of us went snorkeling - it was really fun. We went to the same site as we did when we went scuba diving. But it was cool seeing the coral and the statue of Christ from above the water and looking down on the coral and fish. We had so much fin snorkeling - even though the girls only went about 10 feet away from the boat.

Our last day we all went to Key West for the day. On the way there we stopped by some areas to have a look at the Key Deer. Key Deer is an endangered species. They only grow to be about 2 feet tall and only live in the Florida Keys. We were lucky enough to see about 5 of them. Claire decided to name them all Bod or Bodalina. When we did get to Key West we had dinner at a diner called the Most Southern Café which was right on the beach so we got to play on the beach after we were done eating. When we were done we went through town to get to the Sunset Festival - they have one every day! The Sunset Festival was so cool. There were cats doing tricks, people juggling fire and lots of people selling things. We got an ice cream and then found a spot to watch the sunset. The sunsets in Key West are the most beautiful sunsets you will ever see. When the sunset was over we started heading back to the car, but instead we ended up staying for a parade. We had no clue there was going to be a parade. The parade was fun too. There were people dressed up as pirates, clowns and other things too. They were throwing necklaces and candies too.

We were sad to leave Florida but very happy at the same time. When we got back to Philadelphia, Leo was waiting for us at the baggage claim to drive us back home in his limo. He was funny and could talk like Donald Duck!

We had so much fun the whole time - thank you very much Make-A-Wish for such a wonderful trip.