So we had an AWESOME Saturday spent @ the Aquarium!!
We had to walk through a Mini Mall and we came across an Irish Pub and above the entrance was Cladagh Ring a symbol of Great Love in Ireland. Kory bought me a Cladagh Ring when we were dating and it was fun to see! And this is where the FUN began!!
You can't really see the City behind us but we are in the Mall with a great view!
The Aquarium was HUGE there where so many different fish shapes, sizes, and stories! Wish we could have read and learned about each one of them BUT with 3 kids we did the best we could! They had so much fun, and were such good sports smiling every time mom felt it necessary to snap another picture. Poor Kael started to not feel so good, running a fever, and not having much fun. So I had a decision to make, leave after paying alot of money or BRIBING her and carrying her through the whole AQUARIUM!
(my arm was so so sore the next day)
Here we are PETTING SHARKS!! yep petting real sharks, Liam put his hands in the water and splashed around and we were quickly informed that makes the sharks "ANGRY" so we were encouraged to NOT. Kory enjoyed petting the sharks too, at this point we noticed our camera battery was LOW of course! So we tried to limit the pictures till we could make it to Barnes and Nobles to charge to battery, it was a great place to wind down and run and grab some motrin for Kael in the car.
There was an awesome area that looked like a movie theater and you could sit and watch these awesome sharks swim around, they were huge, the biggest one was 9 ft long! There were shark rays (the flat sharks) that were really cool.
Due to the fact that the fish move around you cant really see all the pretty colored fish in this tank we were trying to take a pick of!
This was a MASSIVE crab, love how it looks like its eating Kaels head!
Now what is this fishes name again?
Kory took this picture.. I was using the flash and you can't even see half the pictures I took and Kory got some really cool ones!
Me and the flash.. again some really cool fish!
Awesome picture of the guys, and above them is a HUGE sting ray!
some nasty catfish eel looking things, poor Kael was such a trooper!
Welcome to the Rainforest !
@ the Rainforest you could purchase some nectar and feed the parrots! SO WE DID! It was funny most birds were so high that the average person could not reach them! But as we all know Kory is not of average height so he could easily reach some high birds! The birds liked the nectar so much it hopped onto Korys arm and so he brought it down to the kids level...
Maddilyn was nervous but so excited!
Liam was plain NERVOUS!
Nearing the end of our journey and Kael was done! But we were still having so much fun.
There was an entire penguin show with another theater feeling room but getting Kael to sit through it just didn't seem fair :(
After the entire Aquarium and how awesome Kael was we told her we would get her something... then we saw the prices... $14.99 for a stuffed animal! So we told her to look around at all the fun places we still hadn't seen, inside the mall, and all the vendors around the stores outside. Poor thing, the motrin HADN'T started to work and she LOVED this pink penguin, and after kindof looking around and her heart was set on the new friend she had left @ the gift shop... so we went back and got Halle the Penguin! The smile says it all!
She has slept with Halle every night holding her tight and loving every minute of it... worth $14.99! The other kids got a trinket too, wouldn't leave them out but nothing that meant as much as Halle did to Kael!
The night didn't end there....
(to be continued)
