Downtown Aquarium

Ryan, Jared, and I took a little family adventure, last weekend, to the Downtown Aquarium here in Houston. Houston is so big that we've only left the city once or twice since we've been living here, and there are so many things to do that we figured we'd better start exploring the city more. Going to the Aquarium was our first idea for some family fun here in Houston.

This was the first time I can ever remember having gone to an aquarium and it was definitely Jared's first time, so we all had a great time. It was like a maze as we worked our way from room to room and hallways full of tanks and so many different species of fish and reptiles.

Jared has always been fascinated whenever he gets to see a fish tank anywhere. He always loved going over and poking and staring at the pet-fish-tank at Grampa and Gramma Jacobs' house. So, this was like Christmas morning for him getting to see so many different, colorful, and some huge fish.

He also go to see jelly-fish, a large yellow eel (scary!), an alligator, some turtles, frogs, snakes, oh, and a snow tiger.

At the end we got to go into a sting ray petting room where we washed our hands and got to pet sting rays that were swimming in a shallow pool. Jared was so excited to see so close to them and have them splashing at us. He kept squealing with laughter, but he was still too afraid to actually touch them. Ryan and I did a couple times; they were pretty slimy and didn't seem to mind everyone touching them a bit.

It was a fun day and we had a great time together!!