The Friday before the wedding, pretty much all the family was now in town and since I don't see my extended family much, we wanted to all get together and do something during the day before the rehearsal dinner. We thought that going to the Dallas Aquarium might be fun (too bad that the Garcia family decided that too but went the day before). When we went to pick them all up at the hotel, we had to be democratic about the whole plan and go over multiple options and discussions about what else we could do together or perhaps in smaller groups ... an hour later, we all agreed on the aquarium after all, haha.
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| For being an aquarium, I actually saw very few fish. They also have a small jungle/amazon type multi-level atrium thing with lots of other animals like flamingos, turtles, penguins, alligators, monkeys(?), and even a sloth. |
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| Looking up for the birds ... |
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| ... and the monkey (?) things... really cute and little, reminded me of the Lorax with the mustache, lol. |
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| Looking down at the alligators and turtles and frogs and flamingos. |
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| Some fish we did get to see were the sharks and sting rays, and during their feeding time. They have this see-through hallway/tunnel thing that goes right underneath the shark tank, so you can see them as they swim right past and above you. |
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| ... it was definitely ... something ... to see them eat at the falling chum and squids and fish and stuff... even picking leftovers off of each other... yum. -_- |
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| ... giant sea turtles shared the tank with the sharks too. |
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| ... outside, looking at the tiny penguin habitat. |
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| sooo cute! (... but a little smelly) |
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| (I think he's a little bored with the penguins...) |
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| We also got to see a bit of some traditional dancers with elaborately decorated costumes. |
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| and they even had a jaguar! (... maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought aquariums had fish and other sealife? lol) |
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| ... don't we look so energetic? it was fun, but a long day. |
