Sea Quest

During our Christmas break we took a trip to the Sea Quest Aquarium at the mall. It was smaller than the one we're used to going to, but it was really neat because the kids were able to touch and feed whatever they wanted. Hannah was such a trooper and did really well, and the boys had a great time exploring and looking at all the animals.

 Right in the middle of the Reptile room was a little pen with fuzzy chickens in it. They were pretty cute.

 The boys got the feed the iguanas. There was a huge mass of them laying all on top of each other. It looked kinda gross, but I'm sure they were just trying to keep each other warm. They got to feed them lettuce leaves and pet them.

 This tank had tiny fish in it that would come and eat all the dead skin off your hands and make them all nice and clean. Stephen joined in that one and they suck their hands in there for a while, while the fish went to town.

 I sat down to rest and feed Hannah for a few minutes while the boys went to look in the shark tank. Zander had run off for a minute, so Stephen went to find him leaving Lucas at the tank by himself as I watched him from a distance. Lucas looked around, then dunked his face in the shark tank and started lapping up the water to get a drink! Some guy saw him as Stephen was coming back with Zander and asked if that was his kid and told him Lucas had been drinking the water. After Stephen got him down Lucas continued to dip his hands in the water and lick the water off his hands all the while saying, "Mmmmm!"

They also got to feed the sting rays, and pet a big tortoise that was roaming free around the aquarium. Afterward we got hot dog on a stick for dinner and headed home.