On Friday morning we all got up and had some breakfast, while we waited for Jennifer to get home from work and Mom and Dad to come over from the hotel. Aarron had to work all day so he was not going to come with us this morning.
Once everyone got home we loaded up the van and the car and headed to the Shark Encounter at the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the strip. We only had a few minutes to wait for tickets then we went inside to see all of the cool animals!
When you go inside they give you a remote/recorder, so you can punch in a number (that correlates to the tank you are looking at) and it will tell you all about the animal/fish/shark inside. Ted and Alex listened at everything at every tank. They were so full of questions and really listened to the answers! It was wonderful to watch them learn and enjoy it. Sierra was in her favorite backpack on Brad's back and loved it! Mom, Dad, Jen and I just tried to keep up the boys questions.
There was a tank that you could lean over and look/touch some rays and horseshoe crabs. The rays were so soft and the horseshoe crabs were hard but smooth. The boys loved looking and touching and asked the lady working there a dozen or more really good questions.
Then we entered the last big exhibit with all the different sharks, eels, turtles, fish, etc. It has a bunch of different windows all around the sides, bottom and some on top. We were able to see some really cool things. And we were there on feeding day, so we were able to watch a bunch of them eat, very cool! A woman that worked there came out to one of the tunnels to answer peoples questions and the boys had a million very interesting and intelligent questions for her. She was so impressed with them that she took Ted, Alex, Brad and Jen into a separate room that they use as a classroom with more animals and information. And spent another 15 minutes answering more questions! The boys couldn't stop talking about how much fun they had. And of course at the end we had to stop at the gift shop to by souvenirs.
We were all very hungry at this point in the afternoon so we decided to drive across the street to McDonalds/Subway/Panda Express to get a late lunch. While we were waiting at the light to go across the street we saw The Little Chaple of the West, which is where my parents got married over 30 years ago! I was surprised that it was still there. After lunch we went back to Jen and Aarron's house and visited some more. We had a late dinner of pot roast, mashed potatoes, gravy and peas, mmmmmmmmmm good. We had a great time today!
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