Visit to the Aquarium

Today we went to The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah. You can check out their website at http://www.thelivingplanet.com/ This week is Spring Break and we didn't have any money to go out of town so we did stuff around town. Yesterday was the movies and today the aquarium. I had been there 2 years ago with a class, but Kyle and the kids had never been. Everybody was there. I saw three families I knew from Spanish Fork and one from Provo.

Anyway, there's a lot of cool stuff, and the next time we have family in town I want to take them there.

The aquarium has a section dedicated to local freshwater life. We saw trout, salamanders, bullfrogs, toads, brine shrimp, catfish, and snails. There was even a boat that the kids could pretend to drive while there was a video playing of boating around the Great Salt Lake.

They had an exhibit with tarantulas and cockroaches. Ewww!

The rest of the exhibits are saltwater life. There were jellyfish, moray eels, electric eels, sharks, shrimp, a green anaconda, piranhas, horsehoe crabs, an octopus, a giant clam, hermit crabs, cayman, seahorses, tropical fish, anenomes, coral and sea stars.

There was an open tank where you could reach in your hand and touch the stingrays. They feel like Jell-O with a stiff course tail.

There was also a section were you could touch pencil urchins, green brittle sea stars and horseshoe crabs.

We had lots of fun. Of course, no trip is complete without visiting the souvenir shop. Zane got a 5 foot stuffed snake, Cooper got a stuffed shark and dolphin, and Chloe got two stuffed sea horses.