Our Day @ The Long Beach Aquarium

One of the many wonderful things about Steven and I being teachers in the amount of time we get to spend at home with our kids.  Today marked the start of Steven's Spring Break (bummer, we always have different Spring Breaks) but we decided to head to the L.B. Aquarium since teachers get in free during the month of March.
I am SO SO glad we went!  We spent the entire morning and afternoon there. Madison absolutely LOVED it! She looked in EVERY tank and had no fear at touching ANYTHING....sting rays, jelly fish, baby sharks, star fish, annenomes.  She didn't even want to leave! Brooklyn loved it too; she crawled around, stared at the tanks, and even pet a sting ray herself!
Note:  One of my main reasons for blogging is to create a book at the end of the year so prepare for picture overload......

 Stop #1..Jellyfish 

Brave Lil Girl!

"They're slimy, mommy!"

Starfish and annenomes!

Fish Galore!

Brooklyn was amazed @ this tank

Sisters!

Looking up the fish names w/ daddy

Family Shot!

Checking out more fish

Brooklyn Jane

The ugliest fish I have even seen...camouflaged right into the rocks

Maddie & Daddy in the shark mouth

Staring @ the HUGE bass!

Daddy & Brooklyn

Touching the sting ray & jelly fish...again NO FEAR!

The huge sting ray

B playing in the kiddy zone

Love this pic...she was mesmerized!

Love her lil pose...checkin out the sting rays!

 Hanging w/ daddy!

Halibut fish..learned lots of new things about these guys today!

Playing w/ the sting ray

(They were SO friendly, she could have stayed there ALL day if we let her)

Busy watching

Snack time for B!

Jelly Fish

Maddie & mommy

Posing by the jelly fish

Busy Brooklyn

"What mom, I'm busy!"

Investigating w/ daddy

Touching the annenomes

Our friend, Scuba Steve!

Some more crazy fish!

 Mini Sea Horse

Do you think the aquarium wiped them out??? Hahaha!