Spring Break started a little early at our house. My parents and Ian arrived on Thursday afternoon, so I kept the boys out of school on Friday so we could spend as much time with my family as possible. We decided to check out the Florida Aquarium. We even got half off since we have memberships with the San Antonio Zoo. Score!
When we first got there, the place was literally overrun with school field trip groups. It was ridiculous. It was loud and crowded, and quite frankly, it wasn’t much fun. Until the school groups left. Then the aquarium was a really nice place to hang out for the day. Do you want to see some pictures? I thought so. :)
A Leaf Dragon. Have you ever seen anything like this? Totally looks like leaves and just kinda floats in the water like leaves would. 
I just thought these flowers were pretty. :)
Check out this sea horse and then read the wall plaque in the next picture. How lucky is the female of this species of sea horse???
A Florida Spiny Lobster
A Striped Burrfish. It’s a kind of puffer fish.
These are weird. Upside Down Jellyfish. No joke! They are jellyfish that got confused with anemones, I guess. They just hang out on the bottom and wiggle like – jellyfish. 
Turtle.
Gator. With crazy weird reflections on the glass.
Blurry picture of some cute yellow fish. I call them kissy fish. They did this for at least a minute. Maybe I should call them make out fish…
Tanner checking out the reef aquarium.
There’s a splash pad here too, but there was no water in it, so the kids just ran around and played on the pirate ship. They also do dolphin tours, but we didn’t want to pay extra for that on this trip. We weren’t supposed to bring outside food, but, whatever. I’m a rebel. We brought our lunch and enjoyed it. We sat in a little pavilion picnic area next to the water. While we ate, we saw a couple of dolphins swim past us and we watched the birds dive for fish. It pays to be a rule breaker sometimes. :)
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