Fun Day ~ Tidbits

The younger two were begging to do another "fun" thing while they were on spring break, so Hubby agreed to take them to the zoo.  The aquarium was shut down for a large remodel job, and it just re-opened last week.  


I've been taking the kids to this zoo since they were born.  In fact, I remember taking the day off work, to take my son there for his first birthday.  Oh my gosh, that was 23 years ago.  Sigh....

The zoo removed the small rain forest they had, and put in ceiling to floor fish tanks.  Some can be viewed from both sides.

They also built areas where guests can touch stingrays, horseshoe crabs, and other sea creatures.

Our fifteen year-old touching a stingray.

 

There were new creatures, such as these sea nettles.

These giant crabs were here before, but now have a new tank.

The one nice part about the new aquarium, is that they put in a water fountain that has a place to fill your water bottle.

A bottle of water here is $3.00.  Even in the machines.  We took water, and I was thrilled to fill it up for free.

Our youngest being goofy.  They have these animal heads hanging, and kids can get photo moments to remember.

There were many animals to see, and the weather was beautiful.

 They now have fancy TV monitors here and there, vs. a written sign.  In fact, the aquarium is filled them them.  The only downfall on this, is you have to stand and wait for it t go through the screen shots to wait and read the one that tells you about the animal.

A polar bear sleeping.

This Mom had a new baby, but photos were hard to get.

 

You can't see them very well, but these are wolves.  There were dingos in another caged area as well.  

They even have goats at this zoo.  We did not see all of it when we left.   I had logged 8,402 steps on my fitbit, and my tooties were killing me.  The kids however, could have walked more, but chose to save the rest of the zoo for another day.  You really could spend a weekend here.  

The funniest part of this day trip, was the kids.  Every photo I attempted to take, those two were taking "selfies" and at one point I tried to photo bomb them.  They were so excited.  The kids haven't been on any day trips for a few years I think, so they were fired up with energy.  We've gone camping nearby, but nothing like this.

I'm glad we took them.  Now that we all had a fun, relaxing day, it's back to reality.  

Garden prep is still put off, as we expect a boat load of rain this week.  I checked on my garlic, and saw all of the 100 are up, but maybe three or four.  I pulled some tall dead flowers that were covering one small flower bed.  I saw that the tulips were up higher than the hyacinths or daffodils. 

Two of us woke up sick the day after this one-day adventure.  Mainly a sore throat, and laryngitis.  One is me.  I have been able to avoid sickness for the longest this winter, and now this.  Hmpf.  I woke up to thunder and more rain, so it's a day with hot tea, gargles, and elixir for me. It could be spring allergies too.  

Thanks for reading through this rather long post today.