Those were my thoughts as we drove home from Atlanta (in traffic) on Thursday, after having spent two nights with my parents. We had action-packed days.
We began Wednesday at the Center for Puppetry Arts to see "A Little Pirate Mermaid" and participate in a puppet workshop. Below you can see the first "puppets" we made - hand puppets!
The theme of the workshop was fish, and the boys made wonderful rod puppets.
Here we are working on the puppets. I love this picture of Amanda, as she is trying so desperately to see what is happening. She never wants to miss a thing! I'm carrying her in my Ergo carrier, which gives me the freedom to use both arms, but she would rather be free to roll around on the floor and explore.
The "Little Pirate Mermaid" was a wonderful show, using string puppets, shadow puppets and hand puppets. The voices were all live and the set was amazing. I'm planning to return for another show soon, as it was excellent.
Later that evening, after naps, an hour at the park and an early dinner, the boys insisted on testing the waters in the neighborhood pool. Never mind that the previous two nights had seen temperatures in the 40s and it was currently a cool 67 degrees, with gusty winds. They had a blast, especially with the borrowed goggles. We love the Lost & Found!
Thursday morning, bright and early, we headed to the Georgia Aquarium with folks from our Homeschool Co-op group.
At one point, I thought that the caption of the picture below might be "taken just before (insert name here) fell into the touch pool." I really don't see how more kids don't fall into these pools. The sides of the touch tanks are at least three feet high, so the kids have to dangle themselves over the side to reach the animals. Combine that with the fact I was trying to handle two kids and keep an eye on Amanda, and I was sure someone (i.e. Andrew) was going to get wet.
Here the boys are touching some coral and sea anemones. In other tanks, they touched Rays, small sharks, shrimp and horseshoe crabs.
The highlights for me were the huge tanks of fish, especially the tank with the whale sharks and other sharks. We read so many books about sharks that it was really exciting to see them in person.
This is Derrick's favorite picture. It looks as if Andrew is trying to touch the jellyfish. Thank goodness there was thick acrylic between him and the animal! I've been stung by one and it was no fun.
This is what happens after two action-packed days. Andrew did not make it to see the last 30 minutes of the aquarium. Scott and I were pretty tired as well.
In all, it was a great field trip! The only down side was Derrick had to stay home and work. But, we have the summer countdown going. Only nine more days with kids and two post-planning!
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