Our main man Benji turned four a few weeks ago and we had a wonderful time celebrating his birthday. We didn't do a big party this year, so we let the birthday boy decide what he wanted to do as a family for the big day - he chose the Long Beach Aquarium.
We had a great time swimming with the fishes even if it was totally crowded.
Checking out the tide pools - only Benji was brave enough to touch these leopard sharks. But later on, both boys got to touch some jellyfish! Way cool.
If you look close behind Peter, those big flat things in the pool are rays. They were HUGE!
Then we stopped at the lorikeet pavilion and Benji got to feed the birds.
And Peter too.
And then one even landed on Travis. Nora REALLY wanted to hold one of those birdies but they kept flying away any time she got close. Smart birds, really.
Shark Attack!
Nora trying to pet a turtle. This girl loved the giant walled aquariums. She run up and down and 'chase' the fish, laughing like crazy the entire time.
And then Benji decided he wanted a souvenir -- so he picked out this Sea Krait with his birthday money. Oh boy, did he ever love that little snake. He carried it around the entire day and could not be happier. UNTIL...we had already left the aquarium and had dinner and were getting ready to go to the car to go home and Benji totally flipped out. He decided he did NOT want the sea krait any more, he wanted an eel and we had to go back THIS INSTANT to trade it. In his defense, it had been a long, napless day and I think the poor kid was just on sensory overload. We finally got him calmed down and he sacked out 2 seconds into our drive home (thankfully)! We were just baffled by the 180 degree switch in a matter of moments. Now the sea krait is back to being his BFF. Funny kid.
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