Sunday, May 22, 2011

Ripley's Aquarium -Gatlinburg Tennessee

While in Gatlinburg, we went to the Ripley's Aquarium. There was so much fun stuff to do while in Gatlinburg. Of course most of our activities involved animals. We all want to be happy, so we do things that would be fun for the kids. But honestly we all LOVE aquariums. Here are some fun pics from our day.

Here are Riley's favorite frogs..

We spent some time at the ray petting area, I even touched a shark!!!! Yeah Riley and I both did.

The Penguin area was really awesome. You could walk under the tank...
...inside the tank...And on top of the tank... (see the little penguin swimming right under Gracin.) At first Gracin was afraid to step on that, he was sure he would fall in the water.

Riley had to get Gracin right up to the glass sometimes to see. Then Gracin would punch the fish:)
Jelly fish are fun to take pictures of:)

Rhylan really liked to pet the horse shoe crabs. Just like "Little Critter."
Gracin eventually had to be in the stroller to be happy. Really he was running around too much so I had to go get the stroller. He was kicking and CRYING until he was in the stroller then he was happy again.
We loved this tank. It was so pretty and bright. Also you could get inside the tank and view it from the tube in the middle.
Rhylan and I inside.
Rhylan loved it in there.


3 comments:

Brittany H said...

So fun!! I'm so glad you got to go.

RiChArd and MeReDitH said...

OH the memories! Rich and I went to the Smokey's for our honeymoon. We stayed in a cabin alot like yours and have pictures of some of the same things! They must not have had the penguin exhibit when we were there though...it looks like it was way cool...I don't know how we could have missed it.

Mauricio and Tiffany said...

Wow lot's of cool stuff! That penguin tanks is so cool! I can't believe you pet a shark! That's just crazy. I really like that last tank. it looks like a finding nemo tank. The only fish I saw were all on that movie!

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