Belated Birthday at the Aquarium

Last weekend we headed downtown to the Dallas World Aquarium for our (much belated) celebration of Phil's birthday. Even though I have lived in Dallas for over 20 years, I have never been to the aquarium! I really thought that Lucas would love it after seeing how much fun he had at the zoo. It was a bit crowded to navigate with the stroller, but was definitely a fun time. The first part of the walk through the building is actually an aviary, and Lucas LOVED looking at the birds. I must have some attractive hair because two or three birds took swoops at me! Despite the attempts at dive-bombing, it was neat to get up close and personal with the birds.

Lucas's absolute favorite part of the day was looking at the penguins. I think he would have stayed out there all day if we had let him. He wanted to point to each and every one and walked back and forth between the two pools about a dozen times.




Pointing to the penguins.




Doesn't he look so grown up?!?



After the penguins, we headed down to the actual aquarium where we checked out the manatees (my favorite!!), the sharks (we opted out of feeding time), and lots and lots of fish!  Lucas was fascinated by all of the fish and the manatees, but he was a little scared of the sharks. That was strange to me since he isn't even old enough to know what a shark is!  His favorite part was standing on the ledge of the walk-through tunnel and checking out all the animals.



Pointing out the GIANT manatee to us.





Both boys are fascinated :)




This might be my favorite of the day...he almost fell over backwards looking at that fish.



We wrapped up our day on the town with lunch at Freebirds, so Daddy's birthday celebration could not have been better!