Dallas World Aquarium

We went to the Dallas World Aquarium like a year ago.   I'm posting pictures now.   It was actually in August.   Colin took off a day of work so we could all go do something fun together before school started.  It's pretty expensive, so it won't be something we do all the time, but it was worth it!   We all had a great time.   And there was so much more than fish ...

Check out this crazy bird.   I should have done this post weeks ago because now I don't remember what anything was called.   Some type of stork I think.  I thought it was a statue.  Then it moved : )

 

 Cooper, checking out the waterfall ...

And all of the boys posing.    Lots of animals are just roaming "freely" throughout areas.   

Monkeys, birds, a sloth, etc...

 

Working up the courage to feed the toucans.

Some type of crocodile. It was HUGE.

Charlie checking out the croc with daddy.

As the morning went on, there were some day camps that came through.   It got a little crowded.

This is Charlie in front of the otter tank.   He looked over and saw the big kids squatting down, and joined right in.

 

Hi!

 

This Manitee was incredible.   I wish I could have captured its size with a picture.

A smaller one kept coming up to Cooper through this glass.  It was so cute.

Really, really neat Sea Dragons.  

Garden Eels.   Very cute.  They remind me of the little worm friend of Oscar on sesame street.

The boys were thrilled when we walked through the shark tunnel.   It really was incredible.

Hard to get a picture with the lighting, but there were sharks everywhere.

 

You know the feeling when you see something really incredible, and you want to experience it with someone ... like your husband, or kids, or a friend? 

When we were here I just kept thinking how much my dad would have loved this.  

Sometimes when I am explaining things to the boys I realize how much I sound like my dad. 

I loved how he shared his excitement in new things ... little or big.

My mom and brother had gone back to Lake Chuck for a few days so they missed out on our little excursion.   But we will make another trip this winter when the weather is yuck.

A few more pictures ...

 

"Hello there"

We had lunch in a restaurant there.  

Let's be honest...

the food was terrible.

But, aside from that, the experience was great.

 

 Here's us girls at lunch.

She is such an angel!  Isn't her dress precious?   

Thanks to Jessica Clampitt who gave Maggie all of Stella's baby clothes.  

It is so much fun to dress her everday!

On our way out, we checked out the penguins.

This is Cooper impersonating how a penguin waddles.

Fun trip. 

Some of our other favorites were the giant crabs from somewhere... China?  Japan?   hmm.   I don't know.   Wherever they are from, they are big,...like the size of our kids.   Crazy.

The octopus was neat.  Lots of cool snakes.  Seahorses.

So much to see.   Can't wait to go back.