Weirdness at the Aquarium

Today our friend Shawna invited us to join her and her kids at the Georgia Aquarium. Strangely, Anthony and I had never been there. We felt like tourists in our own town!

There's nothing like a visit to an aquarium to remind you what an incredible world we live in, full of so many weird, wacky creatures. Such a huge variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and amazing adaptations.

There's also nothing like a visit to an aquarium to remind you how hard it is to photograph wildlife, even when it's in captivity. But I did my best.

 

Manta ray "flying" overhead as we walked through the tank tunnel.

If there's anything cuter than an otter, I don't want to know what it is.

This guy is the Grumpy Cat of the frog kingdom.

Giant tank of Pacific Sea Nettles. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Seriously, I could have stared at the Pacific Sea Nettles for hours. I really wished I had a better camera to capture their amazing colors and textures. Here is a video of some at another aquarium. They are so very strange, but so graceful and mesmerizing.

Now, I might not be a great nature photographer, but if there's one type of photography I excel at, it's shots of me and my loved ones being wacky. So we have plenty of those from this outing as well.

 

My husband made a new friend.

Shawna's kids liked posing for this photo okay, but...

...not nearly as much as Shawna and I did. :)

Gift shop sword fight!

More antics in the gift shop.

 

The pictures I'm in, Anthony took those, while rolling his eyes and making his "I can't take her anywhere" face. But he did it anyway, because humoring me is one of his superpowers.

All in all, a fun and fascinating day at the Aquarium. And to top it off, when we came back outside, we saw this:

 

First time in a week we've had blue sky for more than five minutes.