It was supposed to be a rainy day so we decided to go to the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.
Is it a bad sign if we start out our day looking like this? Mystic is about an hour from my parents house, thus the tired looking Grant after falling asleep in the car.
We loved looking at the Beluga whales. We learned beluga comes from a Russian word meaning white.
"Just a little white whale on the go"
A kids viewing area for the beluga whales
It was a little rainy and wet, but not too bad. John was excited to walk
We got to see some friendly penguins. They would swim right up to the viewing and follow your hand around.
We got to feed some exotic birds. These birds were better fed and less aggressive than the birds we fed at the Colorado Springs zoo. Here is John trying to feed them.
Many of the birds were up too high to reach
Sometimes we could get some of them to come down on our feeding sticks
Grant liked seeing the jellyfish
Everyone liked the touch tank
And we got to see the sea lion show which was fun
Checking out some rays
They had a big Titanic display there
It was very informative, but also sad.
Checking out the fake iceberg
Having a Titanic moment
We had a lot of fun at the aquarium and learned a lot.
And had some Mystic pizza after
2 comments:
Mmmm, Mystic Pizza looks yummy!
The Russian word for 'white' is byeli. I didn't know the beluga had the same root. That's neat.
That's what they told us - that beluga was based on the Russian word for white. Not sure how it evolved to "beluga."
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