Monday, August 23, 2010

The Georgia Aquarium

The main reason for our trip to Atlanta was to go to the Georgia Aquarium, which is the world's largest aquarium with over 8.5 million gallons of water & 100,000 animals.

One of the aquariums claim to fame is that is the only one in the U.S. that has Manta Rays.

The Rays are in the same tank as four Whale Sharks (one of four aquariums in the world to house them), which are the worlds largest fish.

If you look closely on the left you will see Drew on his Daddy's shoulders looking at the big fish.

Drew likes looking at the fish in our little aquarium at home so we figured he would enjoy the big ones too.

We weren't sure if he was looking at the fish or the lights.

There were things for Mommy to see too, like this turtle that waved at her...

And she loves to pet the Sting Rays.

See, he was having fun.

Mommy & Drew "under" the river.

Check out the size of the Japanese Snow Crab (that's a child's head in the lower-left corner).

One thing we didn't do was wait in line for the penguin tunnel, where you pop-up in domes right next to the little cold weather birds.

This little guy was intrigued by the camera's flash.

A pretty starfish.

All the lights, colors & fish proved to be too much for the little guy after the 6 hour drive.

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