Family Day 2010: Dallas Aquarium

I'm finally getting around to posting about our Family Day celebration on February 6th. This year we went downtown to the big Dallas World Aquarium. Mason is currently REALLY into fish so we thought he'd like that. We thought we might even end up buying a family annual pass, but, unlike many other venues around town that offer such passes, the Aquarium does not offer any reduced price/free guest passes or parking discounts. Even so I really considered doing it since our entry fee was nearly $60 and an annual family pass was $199... but after going through I was glad that we decided to wait. Mason isn't quuuuuuuite ready for going there too often. The entire top of it is composed of a huge rainforest and while you are walking through it there are LOADS of lines... lines + 3 yr olds = trouble. The day was still fun. Mason enjoyed looking at the huge wall aquarium. He could have hung out there for hrs... if we had goldfish on us! Mason made friends with turtles, giant catfish, manitees, and all sorts of other creatures. It was funny b/c they really did look like they were coming to say hi. One of the COOLEST parts of the trip was that there was a street musician outside the Aquarium playing the sax. We probably could have spent the afternoon watching him and Mason would have been happy as a clam!