Saturday, May 2, 2015

The Living Planet Aquarium

March 20, 2015
Savannah's birthday was March 22nd, and because she LOVES animals, we decided it would be a fun birthday treat to take her to the Living Planet Aquarium.  We were right.  She loved it! :)
 photo DSC08045.jpg
Rori loved the pretty pictures on our tickets
 photo DSC08047.jpg
Our cutie pa-tootie birthday girl!
 photo DSC08048.jpg
Trying to show us two fingers because she was turning two!
 photo DSC08049.jpg
Dad and Mom with the birthday girl
 photo DSC08050.jpg
 Rori had to get in on the action too!
 photo DSC08051.jpg
Watching for Grandma and Grandpa who joined us
 photo DSC08052.jpg
Savannah loved that the "quackies" were standing on one leg while they were sleeping
 photo DSC08054.jpg
Aurora was terrified of the animals at first.  She was afraid they could get out of their tanks.  She kept her distance for a while and freaked out every time I tried to pick her up to comfort her.  It took some convincing before she warmed up to the fact that the animals were not going to get out.  Poor thing.
 photo DSC08057.jpg
Savannah, on the other hand, seemed fascinated by everything :)
 photo DSC08065.jpg
We all love turtles!
 photo DSC08076.jpg
 photo DSC08078.jpg
Savy sitting on an orca whale
 photo DSC08094.jpg
The real penguins were hard to take pictures of but they were really fun to watch.  Some animals are so fascinating!  The girls really liked watching the penguins.
 photo DSC08102.jpg
Measuring up!
 photo DSC08096.jpg
Giving us her "goofy eyes"
 photo DSC08097.jpg
Gotta love Rori's "tude" in this picture :)
 photo DSC08101.jpg
The poisonous frog exhibit was one of our favorites, surprisingly. (Maybe it's because we love the poisonous frog on Rio 2!)  We looked at the frogs for a long time!  Their colors were so pretty!
 photo DSC08109.jpg
Toucan's are amazing birds. So beautiful!
 photo DSC08111.jpg
Some more beautiful birds!
(My fourth grade teacher raised parrots like this. And blue and gold macaws, just a little gee-whiz. Haha!)
 photo DSC08116.jpg
Shark!  Grandma didn't want to get eaten with us :)
 photo DSC08119.jpg
After being there for a while, Savy started getting a little sleepy as it was getting closer to nap time.  So she started making herself cozy where ever she could. Cutie pie.
 photo DSC08128.jpg
We couldn't use flash photography at the shark tank, but it's really cool!  The tank makes a tunnel that the path goes through and you can see the sharks and fish above you and on both sides.
 photo DSC08135.jpg
A creepy green eel
 photo DSC08144.jpg
 photo DSC08145.jpg
That was the last exhibit we went to.  After the shark tank we went to check out the gift shop.  Savy loves stuffed animals and I just about died when I turned around and saw her snuggling up to this penguin:
 photo DSC08152.jpg
This is the penguin she loved the most though, and the one that ended up coming home with us because I couldn't bear to pull her away from it (and we planned to get the girls a souvenier anyway).
 photo DSC08153.jpg
The aquarium was really cool.  Aurora wants to go back for her next birthday now.  I'm just glad she was able to get over her fears (for the most part) and enjoy herself while we were there.  Savannah loved it, and we knew she would.  She kept trying to move ahead of us to see what was next!  I'm glad we have so many cool things to see and do close to where we live.

No comments: