July 2015 - Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

July 25th

To celebrate Karri's birthday, we went to the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium! We've wanted to go 

there since they opened awhile ago, so we were excited to finally see what it's all about.

These crazy girls were riding the whales!

And the boys were doing tricks.

The aquarium has some baby penguins, so we headed over to see them first. It was fun to see 

them swim around under the water, because the water level was visible through the water. 

Melody could only see under the water and thought they were funny.

These girls were in heaven watching the penguins.

There was a fun rope bridge that almost everyone crossed.

Jaina was all ready to go with Pat, but chickened out at the last second.

Jaina loved seeing all the different animals.

She was trying to see if these fish were bigger than her.

Apparently, the anaconda there is longer than Mara, Conli & Sawyer put together.

There was this really cool feature near the Electric Fish. If you put your hand on the metal 

nodes, you could feel the electric wave of what the fish produces. The employee there told 

us to have a person touch each node then touch noses to feel the shock. First Xander and 

Sawyer did it, then Xander and Mana. I have a video of their reactions. It made Mana giggle.

Alligator!!!!!

Ah!!!!

We were having fun with the shark teeth.

Melody saw the girls pretending to scream as I was getting her out of the stroller, she said "I wanna ah'

So we did!

Whenever she sees this picture she still says 'Ah!'

Jaina was telling Karri that the turtle was eating salad. I asked her if it was plain 

salad and she said that it was salad with ranch dressing.

There were some cool sting rays that you could touch. They said you have to use 2 fingers and 

just let them come to you, and not to touch their tails. As you can see, Jaina was a little 

too small to reach by herself, so it's a good thing she has Aunts willing to help her. 

There was a fun little glass bubble that you could go in to feel like you were 

in the aquarium with the fish, and these girls thought it was fantastic.

Melody was really loving all the fish, and this giant turtle.

Jaina was able to try on a turtle shell too.

These kids are so lucky to have an aunt like Karri. She is so loving, generous 

and these kids make her happy. They all love her to the moon and back.

Thank you Mana for this great experience and helping us make memories.

We finally let Melody out of the stroller so she could see the fish upclose.

It was adorable seeing her reaction to all of them.

When we were done we were having some fun in the gift shop.

Afterwards, we all had lunch at Subway. We were going to be seeing each other later that night, so Conli & Sawyer came to play at our house while Xander went to hang out with Max for the afternoon.

We all gathered together once more that day to attend JD's play: Tarzan.

It was a really fun play and we loved being able to go and support JD doing something that he loves.

He played a gorilla in the first half of the play, then after one scene from Act 2 

he changed costumes and became one of Clayton's henchmen.

I sure do love this brother of mine!