On Friday, April 6, we met our friends at Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. Both Paul and Raul were able to get off work early to come enjoy it with us. That was fun!
Have you ever seen a fleshy sea pen before?! I hadn't!
Seeing the octopus was so awesome!
And then we saw it move and that was even more awesome!
This was one large crab!
This tall aquarium was cool to see, both from upstairs and downstairs. There's something so relaxing about watching fish and other marine life move around in the water.
One of the best parts of the aquarium was the Dangerous Lagoon walkway. We could stand on a moving walkway and see sharks and sting rays and all kinds of other creatures from below them. It was a cool experience, and one that I haven't seen at other aquariums.
At the end of Dangerous Lagoon tunnel they had another tunnel that you could crawl in. It was fun for the kids to be right under the fish as they swam around.
After the crawl area they had a big open area with slides, a submarine and other fun things. It had an area that explained how locks work and even where you could touch horseshoe crabs and tiger sharks!
One of the exhibits showcased some of the travels and strange things that Robert Ripley saw on his many journeys throughout the world. There definitely some curious creatures in there!! My personal favorites were the fish with the big, bulging eyes. They looked so cute and funny!
Glenn and Isaac really liked the machine that calculated how hard you could punch. There is a lobster that has a really powerful punch, so it was comparing your punch to the lobsters'.
Another cool part of the aquarium was seeing the sting rays up close. We were there when they did their last feeding of the day. It was so cool to see them swim around a lot and be so interactive.
We loved seeing all the varieties of jelly fish...even the Paul kind! :D
This showed how the different pools got their water and talked about water pressure, etc.
At the end of the aquarium, they had a very fun exhibit. They had a small pool with shrimp where you could put your hands in and let them crawl on you. It tickled and pinched a little. They liked to go under our nails and clean it out. It was funny!
And they had the top of the sting ray pool open so we could potentially touch them as well. Most of the time they would stay just out of reach, but I think we all touched at least one! (Except maybe Sarah. Her arms weren't quite long enough to reach down in there. But she had fun putting her hands in the water anyway and seeing the sting rays.)
This fun sign is just outside the aquarium and CN Tower. Of course we had to take our picture there!
After the aquarium, we went home to rest for a bit and look for a restaurant for dinner. We found an Italian one that was in the middle of our two apartments and met there. This was our last time with them because they were flying home to Spain the next day. We enjoyed the good food at Scaddabush, the good conversations and the memories. We sure did a lot together in a short amount of time. We were SO GLAD they came here to Canada for two weeks and that we got to know them. We became fast friends and maybe one day we'll meet again...We can only hope!
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Fun times!
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