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Dallas aquarium
May. 18th, 2008 06:53 pmWent to the Dallas Aquarium with the family today (Sam and Kendra). So much fun. It was much cooler than I had expected it to be (I've been to Sea World Orlando a lot of times).
The layout was cool--this spiraling path that led up or down, different eco systems on different floors. There's a shark and ray tunnel and a place where you can watch the manatees and huge fresh water fishes from their level.
There was a thing with Mayan dancers where one guy had two parrots on his back and another had this fire thing and the two had an accident and the parrots got pissed at almost lighting on fire and flapped off. One ended up between me and a little girl and I distracted the bird away from the girl. It decided I was safety and grabbed my naked arm with its beak and climbed up onto my wrist. It was kinda flapping so I blocked my face but I let it perch on my arm. The guy came and got it right after that. It left welts but it didn't draw blood. Poor scared birdy.
They had BATS. OMG. So cute. it was a black-lit cage and they'd flap from one end to the other and hang in clusters and groom each other. I could have watched them for hours.
And a three-toed sloth. The world's most mellow critter. I love those guys.
Awesome day. worth the $20/person + $5 parking.
The layout was cool--this spiraling path that led up or down, different eco systems on different floors. There's a shark and ray tunnel and a place where you can watch the manatees and huge fresh water fishes from their level.
There was a thing with Mayan dancers where one guy had two parrots on his back and another had this fire thing and the two had an accident and the parrots got pissed at almost lighting on fire and flapped off. One ended up between me and a little girl and I distracted the bird away from the girl. It decided I was safety and grabbed my naked arm with its beak and climbed up onto my wrist. It was kinda flapping so I blocked my face but I let it perch on my arm. The guy came and got it right after that. It left welts but it didn't draw blood. Poor scared birdy.
They had BATS. OMG. So cute. it was a black-lit cage and they'd flap from one end to the other and hang in clusters and groom each other. I could have watched them for hours.
And a three-toed sloth. The world's most mellow critter. I love those guys.
Awesome day. worth the $20/person + $5 parking.
