On Saturday we took the opportunity to spend a beautiful day indoors, in the nice, cool, air conditioning, at the Living Planet Aquarium. We had a pretty darn good time, although it should be noted that our photos don't do it justice. The fish are pretty spectacular, and the otter and penguin exhibits were adorable. Taylee was digging it, but had become bored and ready to leave. That is until she met Sophia the adult (human) sized penguin! Taylee wasn't interested in getting her photo taken with Sophia(ScArY!), but she sure loved to follow her around the aquarium.
On a side note, we took a little snack break partway through our day, and as we sat munching our overpriced churro, some aquarium staff came into the cafe carrying a large birthday cake. They were accompanied by several families with small children who immediately snagged a piece of cake. I assumed that this was one of the birthday parties lined up for the day. Of course Taylee started immediately with "I want some birthday cake!" I told her we weren't guests at the party. She told me "I wantta be a party!" This went on for quite some time, during which I may or may not have been griping to Kent that it wasn't fair for them to be serving cake to some kids, and leaving other kids (Taylee) out. Well, fortunately, I just might have been eating crow a few minutes later when we discovered that we were celebrating the Aquarium's birthday, and the cake was for everyone to enjoy! Taylee was, obviously, thrilled! So glad we ended on a happy note, and I got to eat my words.
A couple photos of our day - and Yes, these are honestly the best photos we got. Taylee is quite the poser these days, with this fabulous CHEESE face, in which she STILL doesn't even look at the camera. But check out those cute penguins behind her!
I just had to include this photo. Not for it's quality and beauty, but because it cracked me up! Notice the reflection in the aquarium glass to the right? This totally reminds me of those "cool" photos we all had done in the 90's in which they superimposed your image into the corner of the photo. Now look, two decades later, and we have our very own! So lucky!
