Tuesday, September 30, 2014

September Field Trip

In September we took our field trip to the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah.  This is the Aquariums new home and it was the first time I had been to the new building.  Both DeeDee and MiMi had been their on summer school field trip.  We all were looking forward to it and it didn't prove to be a disappointment.
We took our little friend Cici with us and we all had so much fun.  First, the older girls wanted to be eaten by the Megaladon Shark teeth.  The littler kids didn't want to get near them.

They had a really beautiful Orca picture area.  All of the kids had fun playing on the Orcas while I took pictures.

It was fun to see all the animals they had at the old Aquarium building in the new building you could tell they were able to make better and more

interesting exhibits for their animals.  The river otter exhibit is better than the one at the zoo.  The 3 brother otters at Loveland just love to play.  It is so fun to watch them.  The Jellyfish exhibit was also very beautiful.
Next, was the penguin exhibit.  Once again, they took the old exhibit which was nice but kind of small and made it bigger and better for both the penguins and the patrons.



 This was the only picture I could get My Boy to pose for.  He was just running around looking at everything and having so much fun.  We moved on to the South America exhibit.  What an amazing thing.  It was beautiful and included birds, snakes and lizards as well as the fish.  They have a really fun rope bridge for everyone to try.

 At this point MaeMae was really tired.  I had forgotten to bring the big stroller and she would have slept the entire time if I would have had it. Oh, well...(*sigh*).






 The last exhibit is the coral reef exhibit.  They have built a glass tunnel for patrons to walk through and go under the sharks, turtles and other fish.  DeeDee took these great pictures.

All of the exhibits were beautiful and enjoyable to view.  The staff was willing to answer any question and share knowledge with us.  It was wonderful.

Each of the older girls was able to check off their Aquarium passport.  It was a great school field trip day.  I somehow managed it all on my own.  I look forward to my Mom being retired so I can take her to these things.

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