Sea Life Aquarium - Very Cool!

Right next to Legoland in Carlsbad, California, is a new place called Sea Life Aquarium.   Last week while we were at the beach, we took off early one morning and ended up there.  It turned out to be a very cool experience.

Rowan and Easton thought it was awesome being "in" the fish tank.

Like most little boys, Easton loves the legos.  We really should take him to Legoland sometime.  I bet he'd be in heaven.  It's funny that in all the years we've been going to Carlsbad for vacation, we've never been.  Maybe someday.

Nice shell, Afty.

Linda was the one who actually found this place as she was looking into Legoland.  We were actually headed to Knott's Berry Farm for the day.  But as we pulled into my parent's hotel to print our discount tickets, I called Knott's to listen to the driving directions and was met with the friendly recorded greeting saying that Knott's was closed for the day due to inclement weather.  Total bummer!  Thank goodness we didn't drive all the way there and then find out the bad news.  But in the end, it worked out just great.  We enjoyed the aquarium, then the sun broke through and the rest of the day was outstanding.  We were on the beach by 12:30 and loved every second of it.

Afty was posing with the jellies just for fun.  These always remind me of Nemo - the part when Marlin forges through the hundreds of jelly fish to save Dory.  Crush tells him, "You've got serious thrill issues, dude."

Our little man looks a little happy to be here, eh?

Barrett & the star fish

Afton wasn't super excited to touch them, but she relented and gave me the one finger touch, just for photo history sake.

This room in the aquarium was soooo cool.  The picture hardly does it justice.  Fish, fish, fish.  Everywhere.  It was dark, so Rowan looks like she's glowing a bit with the camera flash.

And here we are at the end of the tour.  The six Brown peeps, happy to have seen some amazing sea creatures.  My favorite was the shark and manta ray exhibit.  It was incredible.  Check out this little clip.  So so cool!