Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Great Lakes Aquarium

The pharmacy school celebrated the opening of their new facility with a trip for everyone to the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth. We tried some fancy hors d' orderves (I KNOW I spelled that wrong...) and some tiramisu...and then played the rest of the evening away.

The aquarium had a slide that Julia went down about two hundred times. Beside the slide was a live bald eagle on display...every time she got up to the top of the slide, it was "eagle! eagle! eagle!" Accompanied by shrieks.....She was in Julia-heaven. Hot! Hot! Hot!
Julia had no fears about petting the freshwater stingrays.
Fish! Julia threw a piece of her chocolate chip cookie into the tank (oopie) and the very sedentary animals inside suddenly sprang to life! Even the ducks dove underwater to achieve the chocolatey goodness....

Julia's favorite part of the aquarium was the kid's model of the great lakes system. There were locks that you could open up and lots of plastic boats. Julia took the liberty of swimming in the "Atlantic Ocean" at the end of the display (it was at ground level because all the water was flowing into it.) You'll notice that she soaked her jumper and was down to just the essentials.....



1 comment:

Bobbie said...

I love the aquarium! I make Brice go every time we are in Duluth....it's a great place! I'm glad Julia had such a great time!