On the ground floor was a touch tank with sting rays and small sharks. It had very cool kid-height windows on the side that Cam and Leah could peep through. They liked watching the sting rays and sharks swim, all from a safe distance. Neither kiddo was at all interested in actually touching the rays or sharks.
Mama, on the other hand, was definitely willing to pet a shark and ray!
Cameron checking out a huge awesome school of fish in one of the tanks. I wish these pictures came out better because the school of fish was so cool.
Shark! Awesome huge teeth.
Leah really liked these rocking chairs - they are a big size of the one she has at home.
Shells to play in
It's always tough to get a picture with two kiddos both looking at the camera at the same time!
After seeing a bunch of the inside animals, we grabbed some lunch and then headed out to see the outside stuff. They had a playground, a big sand box and a water play area. Here is cute Cam playing in the sandbox.
Very excited to have filled his bucket of sand (okay, really, I think he was mainly excited to get a bucket and shovel away from the other kids playing in the sandbox!)
Leah in the sand. She was a sandy mess when she was done - not a surprise.
Jason helping Cameron get his water squirter to work
Leah tries to use the squirter but isn't quite tall enough
Cameron LOVED this part, he thought the squirters were awesome.
Leah gets caught in the crossfire of water
Playing with Reagan in the water
Flying leap!
Cam's expression in this picture perfectly shows how much he loved it
Could she be any more adorable?
When we were done outside we headed back in to see more animals. There was another touch tank upstairs that had sea stars and sea urchins. Leah was not interested in touching any of the animals but she wanted me to touch them. The water was FREEZING.
Cam didn't really want to touch them either, but he also liked watching me pet them all.
Leah checking out some fish. She loved any of the tanks that had windows at her height.
Kiddos with a mermaid
This was a "window" in the floor that looked over the top of another tank. It was really cool because you could see the animals below and also the people walking below. The kids thought they were pretty brave to be walking over the window.
Mama and Leah on the roof of the aquarium. The aquarium is right at the Tampa cruise port so we were watching all the big boats go by. It was very cool.
After going through the pictures we took this day, we realized that there are none of all of us together, or even one of Erin and I together, or all three kids together. We had such a fun day with them but apparently didn't do a very good job documenting it in pictures.
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