The Bird's are in Town

My parents came to town 2 weeks ago and stayed for a week and we had a fabulous time. We tried to do as much as we could and we made sure they had a chance to sample some of the local good food.

We went to the Dallas Aquarium on Wednesday. I had let Peter take the GPS and so I did not drive right to it but past it more than once before finally seeing it and arriving at our destination. Once we got there it was so cool!!

First we went to see the sharks becasue it was going to be feeding time for them. This first picture is a view from above. There is a tunnel you walk through to see them but it was pretty neat to look down on them too.

This is called a sawfish and was probably my most favorite fish/aquatic animal seen while there.

Although this gianormous turtle was pretty amazing too! (Sorry about the glare.)

Even worse picture but those hammerhead sharks were not too fond of having their picture taking but they were Jon's favorite.

Can you see how long that sting rays' tail is? WOW!

I am not really sure what animal that is but Jon is sure cute! Arabella loved the rabbits but she did not feel it would be fun to hold still to have her picture taken with them.

This tree did not have any sort of fence or anything around it and yes, that is a sloth hanging in it.

There is not a great way to show how big these were but believe me they were huge!

A really bad picture of some stranger but that is a bird that has landed on his partially bald head.

What mom, you wanted all of us to look at you for a picture and not at these cool animals?!

Another blurry picture but, I wanted to get a picture of Jon's had so that you could have something to compare to the size of this bird eating tarantula. Yes, it eats birds!

We watched the turtles for a long time in this tank.

Joey did not spend as much time at each exhibit and walked with my dad at a faster pace so he is not seen as often.

Still chekcing out the turtles. Arabella did not know what to think of my parents the first day but after that she warmed up more and more each day. I am glad we will see them again soon.

Joey was most excited to see this jaguar and then it was sleeping and not too exciting but that is Joey and Jon witht he jaguar.

Watching the Flamingos. Arabella seemed to take to the birds. She liked the penguins alot too.

We also got to go see Karate Kid on Tuesday night with my parents and it was a really good movie. I had to work on Wednesday night and so we did not have too much fun and Thursday morning we spent getting ready to go to Little Rock. My next post!

Thanks for the great visit Mom and Dad and especially for the fun time at the Aquarium.