Fishy, wake up fishy!

(Darla from Finding Nemo, trying to wake up poor Nemo. :)  )

The day after our adventures at the river with the fireworks for the 4th of July we set off on an adventure.
We packed up our mini van. (sigh we used to be cool) and drove to Salt Lake City, UT.  We dragged my parents along too.  And my children surprisingly did amazing, who knew?

Our first stop was the Aquarium in Sandy, The Living Planet Aquarium.  Which was awesome of course, I only spend money on cool things.

 Lucy is showing you the frogs and salamanders. 

 There was a frog on the loose so Lucy and Clay jumped on his back to stop him!  Good thing they were there!

 Awww just so much expression in this picture.

Look at these freaks of nature!  That nasty stripey guy and the yellow guy who looks like a creeper.  And then the albino dude.  It's like they didn't know what to do with these fish so they threw all the weirdos in one tank and said, well I hope they don't eat each other.

 A puffer fish! Cool!

 It may not look like it but we were excited to be there.  Even the two stone faced children we're holding were having a fantastic time.

Clay is trying to muster up enough courage to touch the pokey dude on the floor, he did, it didn't do anything.  But that little sting ray was cool.  He was just swimming all over the joint waving to you.  He or she would let you touch his little fin flappey thing.  He/she was oh so soft.

Doing a little light reading on our boat ride to South America.

That's a pretty tall penguin.  I supposed I wouldn't mind having a pet penguin running around the house.

Without me telling you where the fish was you would probably have no clue it was there, you're welcome.

I'll bet  you 20 bucks we're not even reading that.  Probably just plotting our next prank.

Ahhhhhh!  They're going to eat my baby!
See and this is why I swim in swimming pools instead of bodies of water.
This has been a debate between Clay and I.  He doesn't like swimming in a pool because you're basically swimming in other people's urine and feces, ya know a giant toilet.  And band aids and scabs, bloody noses, boogers, the list goes on. Eww right?
I don't like swimming in lakes or oceans because I can't see my feet.  I'd like to know if a sea freak is coming towards me.  And large bodies are full of all that garbage too, so Clay is crazy.  What fish poop is sterile?  Dead bodies of fish and humans float around in oceans and lakes, not pools.
His solution was to buy a pool.
So now we just swim in our own dead skin and farts.

Imagine being this sharks dentist.  You would have no problem reaching those molars err maybe those aren't called molars.  Actually if I remember right sharks regenerate their teeth.  Anyone know this for a fact or am I just spreading shark rumors?

Anyway that was day one of our adventure to Utah.