Saturday in Brooklyn Part 1: NYC Aquarium

I have not been really motivated to blog lately. I have a ton of pictures from our summer adventures but lack energy to sit and write about them. When you are 30 plus weeks pregnant and it has been as hot as it has been my motivation has kind of evaporated. So here I am with a catch up post about a fun Saturday we had in Brooklyn. 


The original excuse to venture to Brooklyn that day was to pick up a baby carrier I found on craigslist. However, it did not work out. The pick up location was on the way to the NYC Aquarium, though, so at least we did not travel out of our way. I must say I love our zoo pass. It gets us into all of the zoos in the city plus the aquarium. The aquarium was damaged during Sandy and part of it just recently opened. It is out in Coney Island but there are several trains that drop you off close or right there next to it. Yay for that. 



"Fish!" she said over and over again as she jumped up and down.


Learning about penguins.

We had a lot of fun at the aquarium. Mainly because Cosette was so excited. When Cosette is having fun it usually means we are having fun too. It really does make me so happy to see her excited and enjoying herself. I guess that really shows I am a momma. By that time she had learned about fish and was really excited about them. She also said penguin for the first time that day and was loving seeing those birds splash around. Her favorite animals to see at the zoo all live part of their life in the water. Not sure if it is a coincidence or not but her favorites are sea lions, polar bears, and penguins. We got to see two out of the three that day. We talked to one of the workers by the penguin exhibit and learned that most penguins do not live in freezing cold places like you think they do (by freezing cold I mean Antartica). Most penguins live on the southern coast of the continents like South America, Africa, and then of course a couple species live in Antartica. Most of the penguins at zoos are from the southern coasts of Africa (and here is a link to a map of penguin habitats if you are so inclined to look it up). As you can proabaly tell we spent a good deal of time at the penguin exhibit. 


Cosette observing the sea otter.

We saw a couple of new animals that we had never seen before. We got to watch the sea otter get some dinner. Those otters are huge! I have only seen river otters and sea otters make river otters look tiny. They are really long and a lot wider than I thought they would be. It was alomost like a beaver thickness but a lot longer than a beaver. Cosette thought they were pretty cool. The other new animal we saw were walruses. Lyndon was shocked at how large they are. The aquarium has two and we also got to see them feed. I guess it was lunch time when we were there. So funny story about Lyndon and walruses. He read King Soloman's Mines a couple of summers ago and decided that he wanted to have an elephant farm where people could come and hunt elephants and we would get to keep the ivory. He was fascinated with ivory at the time. I told him that I would have no part in that plan because it was just cruel to the poor elephants. So he decided that we could have a walrus farm in Greenland instead, because they have tusks made of ivory as well. And who cares about the walruses? Yeah, I doubt we are going to have an elephant or walrus farm. I think our trip to the aquarium decided that. 

The best part about the aquarium was the sea lion show! It was awesome. We got to see sea lion do flips, dive off tall things, and lots of tricks. Cosette loved it. We never knew such large mamals were so agile. My favorite part of the show was when the trainers were talking about sea lion's enemies and they playing the jaws music while the sea lion swam with one fin out of the water like a shark. Funny!

Yeah, that is what we did for part of the day in Brooklyn. We will be better about taking more pictures because as I am writing this I am thinking we are really lacking in some good pictures of our time at the aquarium. Post about the rest of that day to come.  

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