A DAY AT THE AQUARIUM

Can you tell by the look on her face that she is about to have a really fun day? Well we did. We went to the Downtown Aquarium which is really right in the middle of downtown Houston. I've always wanted to go there. They had much to do, a train ride, a ferris wheel, a merry go round, and of course fish. And for some random reason, a tiger. Anyways, it was a hot day, but we did all the outdoor stuff first, had lunch and went in to enjoy the fishies. I will definitely bring her here again when she gets older and cares a little bit more about what we were doing, but for the most part, I think she thoroughly enjoyed herself.

Here we are on the little ferris wheel ride. This is my friend Sarah and another one of Brystal's many suiters, Ryan who is just 6 weeks younger than her.

Here is the view of part of downtown Houston from the top of the ferris wheel. I think Nate works in one of the buildings behind these ones. I waved to him.

Here are my attempts to get a good shot of Brystal and I with a cute smiley Brystal...


Um nope nope

nope and nope.

Well she was very excited about the train ride, she thought it was very interesting. Here she is clapping for joy.

On the train, they stop the train dead in it's tracks and lock you up in this tunnel of sharks. It was really neat to have sharks swimming above you and on all sides, it was like we were swimming with them. Then they told us that one of their great white's had escaped during the last flood they had here and to keep your eye out for it. Then as the train ride kept going around little bushes and swamps and such, a HUGE great white shark comes bursting out of the little pond next to us and nearly made me wet my pants. Of course it was fake you guys, do you really think a great white shark would burst out of a little pond. Well, neither did I, not till after I nearly wet my pants anyways.

For some reason at the aquarium they have a tiger show, a WHITE tiger show....oooooo, ahhhh. Anyways, it was so packed I was standing in this corner next to a statue of a tiger head coming out of the wall and sat Brystal next to it, but she thought it was real, and was kinda scared. I probably would be crying too, what a mean mom Brystal has.

Brystal was fascinated by the big bubba fish. She was a little sketchy at first of course but she realized it wasn't going to eat her, although...

If I had this thing coming at me in open waters, I might high tail it out of there. Maybe it would eat me.