Aquarium

We have a seafood restaurant downtown named Aquarium. But it is also a miniature amusement park with a train that drives thru a shark tank, Carousel, Ferris Wheel, games and an actual walk thru aquarium. Normally it is $15/person and with parking and crowds we have stayed away. Kristi's company got us a special this last weekend were it was only $5/person and made it more intriguing to try out. So we took little man down early and were glad we gave it a try. We did the train ride first since we knew that was the hot attraction. But they are really set up to handle the crowds and we never had to really wait in line for anything.
B getting all settled into the train seat. But it became obvious he couldn't see anything being stuck in the middle!

Here is a video of inside the shark tunnel. None of the pictures turned out but the video did ok.

Then of course when you get off the train you have to pass all the games and Dad couldn't resist a little teaching time on proper fishing technique.
Intensely concentrating on what was going on.
Pulling in his catch!

Trying to figure out what his prize was. (giant stuffed snake with an eye patch)

Next we went to the Carousel. Picked a nice looking gator to ride on and figured we were all set to go. But then B wasn't so sure about it and was ready to get off it as soon as possibly! Then it started to move and it was the coolest thing ever. Loved every moment of it. So the ride ended and we started to head off and B decided that, what was child cruelty, he couldn't leave. So we switched animals and rode it again until dad was to dizzy to stay on it and was ready for something else. Were we decided to have a little meltdown having to say good bye to the animals.

Figured since it was getting a little warm we would head in and check out the aquarium part and get a little A/C. Here is B pointing out the fish to us so we wouldn't miss them. He kept trying to wake this nurse shark up but it was much to comfortable to care about the 19 month old banging on the glass and squealing. Guess the dark and cool air finally slowed B down enough were he was ready to do some riding and checking out the rest of the fish from his chair! Their special attraction was a pair of white tigers. But B just figured they were big kitties that meow and since he has a couple of those at home he wasn't to interested.Even at 19 months old you can't get out of the gift shop with out the kid wanting everything. Bryson checking out the Sloth on the way out.
So with a thoroughly worn out kid we headed home in the hopes of a good football night that just didn't materialize. But we all wear our orange in support!

Halloween

For the first time we took part in our neighborhood Halloween Party. It is just a simple get-together where everyone brings something and it works out really well. It was pretty neat to see all the kids playing games and in their costumes. Bryson had so much fun during the two hour party that by the time all the kids were ready to go trick-or-treating he didn't want to leave as he thought that too boring and wanted to find where the dogs had gone. Here is Bryson's pumpkin all lit up.

It was a little too warm to put him right into his costume. That helped keep all the pizza sauce, BBQ and cookie off it too though . We had always seen kids with those glow sticks so we figured we get some for B. He just thought it was the coolest thing and never really put it down the rest of the night.

Bryson found that someone had left a perfectly good wagon in the middle of the street, so he figured he would get in and claim it for himself.
Watching some of the big kids have a light saber battle.
There were three dogs that were at the party and all dressed up. Bryson would get so excited every time he saw them and would follow them around saying "wooof woooof" and holding out his hand for a lick.
Trying out a ring game.

There's the wagon. Still there and empty so he tried to claim it one more time.

Headed out to get some CANDY!