Dallas Aquarium

Madelyn and Grammie


You can find wildlife just about anywhere in the Aquarium


Look, there 's Nemo!!!!!!!!!!!

Madelyn wanted to make the observing sting ray tank and touch and feel exhibit

The highlight of the aquarium is a long tunnel that runs through the shark tank. While posing for a picture, Madelyn found the large shark swimming over top to be more interesting than the camera.

Madelyn admiring the sleeping leopard

Madelyn pretending to be a flamingo and stand on one leg.

Grammie got to do her fun visit with Madelyn, rather than a week long hospital stay. So to celebrate her recovery we all headed downtown to the West End to the Dallas Aquarium. I was a little leery of going because the admission price is pretty steep, but "you get what you pay for", and we had a great visit. You start on the Canopy level of the rain forest and work your way through the jungle levels and end up on the bottom of the aquarium. There are birds and other wildlife roaming round the exhibits and building, and with so much to see, Madelyn was totally enthralled with everything she saw. Especially the fish! Oh we had to find Nemo and she near hysterics when she actually found the clown fish.

After the aquarium, we meet up with Michael to eat lunch and then I got to play tour guide with my mom and show her Deely Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum where JKF was assassinated. There is a giant white X in the middle of Elm street, exactly where he was shot. So in between quick traffic signals, I got her to go out into the street, so I could get her picture. I took the picture and my mom is still standing there and cars are now starting to get closer. "Run mom", and she takes off remarking that if I had waited any longer to take the picture there would have been two X's on the Elm street. Good news, I got the picture, mom is still in once piece, but all the pictures I got of the West End are on her camera.