A Day at the Aquarium

Friday, April 9th--My niece, Samantha, spent some time with us this week since both she and the kids were on Spring Break. Thanks to Nate's brother, Dustin, we've been enjoying season passes to the Aquarium, in Sandy. They have a new penguin exhibit so we went early Friday morning. We had attempted to go earlier in the week and it was horribly crowded, not a single parking spot in sight so we went to the mall that day. Moving on, we got there first thing and we were able to walk in without waiting in any lines because of the season passes. They even allowed Samantha to go in using Nate's pass---awesome! The aquarium is pretty small, compared to what I'm use to seeing in Washington, but there's plenty to see. Of course, the kids love the salt water tanks full of colorful fish, especially the ones that look like characters from "Finding Nemo". We got to the penguin exhibit and it seemed rather small for all the hype but we all enjoyed watching the penguin swim around and jump up to hard surface and many of them swam right next to the glass and just watched us all watching them. It was pretty cool! There is a touch tank with Sting Rays swimming around. Samantha put her hands in to touch them, it was a little creepy at first but she kept doing it in hopes Brady & Elise would give it a try. Elise wouldn't, just like me, but Brady did. He thought they felt pretty slimy. Yuck!

We had a great time at the Aquarium. Shortly after we were finished we got a call from my parents to say they had landed in Salt Lake for a special event that would be happening the next day. Hmmmm...........