The Day Of The Jellyfish

Two weeks ago my mom got her hands on a couple free tickets for The Aquarium Of The Pacific that had to be used before the end of June, so we packed up the boys and headed over there!  Jack was really excited that he was going to get to see the giant whale again, and all of the boys enjoyed looking at the colorful fishies in the tanks.  Sam perfected his fish-face, grandma perfected her whale call, we all (except Jack, of course) touched jellyfish (on the bell, only!) and Jack learned that the animal that he had been calling an "underwater porcupine" was actually a Sea Urchin and called it a "Sea-Urgent-I-mean-Sea-Urchin" from then on.  Of course, we spent the most time staring at the jellyfish (grandma's favorite!) and at the touch tanks, but since we don't make it there that often we made sure to see everything!!!

(he said this coral looked like chicken...?)

 

(this machine taught about whale calls and allowed the kids to record their own calls and play them back... it played them back very loudly!)

And then, poor Luke did this:

Right when it was finally time to do this!

 It was another great day at the aquarium!!!  Of course, we made another trip to see the jellyfish before leaving the aquarium... Jack and grandma love those jellyfish!  I am pretty sure I've heard the word jellyfish about a million times in a thousand different contexts since that day, and it was only two weeks ago!!!  Did I mention the jellyfish? JELLYFISH!!!