This morning we went to the Ripley's Aquarium. There was a hefty admission price, and in typical Ripley's fashion there were some hokey exhibits (like the lady in a mermaid costume swimming with the manta rays). However, their collection of sea animals was impressive, and the shark tank where the sharks swim over you was really, really cool. T was hoping to see a sawfish (an endangered species that we've only ever seen in books), and the aquarium had FOUR!! T was so excited! There were also nurse sharks, moray eels, jelly fish, and leafy sea dragons. I took a ton of pictures. Here are a just a few of our favorite animals:
After a late lunch, we headed down to the pool and beach. The pool was unusually crowded, so we spent the majority of our afternoon at the beach. Today's sand construction project was a couple of cities divided by a canal system. Oo was City Planner, drawing the outlines for the canals and doing some digging and constructing on the side. Adrian was General Contractor, T was Exterior Designer and Landscape Artist, and I was Excavator and Photographer. Below are a few pictures of the project. I love Oo's canal design, and my favorite piece of T's work was the dead fish he stuck into the top of one of his towers.
For dinner we went to a little restaurant called Hamburger Joe's. We stopped there for lunch our first day in town — Oo loved it and begged to go back. The burgers there are thin and similar to McDonald's, which [sigh] is probably why the kids like the food there. The walls of the place are covered in dollar bills that customers wrote on and stapled to the walls. Neither of our waitresses could tell us how the tradition started.
While we were waiting for our food, T and I played with my phone's camera, and Oo read a book. She's currently reading "The Borrowers," and she takes it every where we go.
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