Newport Aquarium

Last Saturday we headed up to Newport, KY (it's just across the river from Cincinnati), to visit their aquarium. I know I've been there once before, but it sure was different! Note: due to the vast amounts of really cool and unique fish, this post is bursting at the seams with pictures!

It's too late for these 3!

mmm... dinner!

A giant snail

This shark appeared to be looking right at us!

It's Dory!

(for those of you who have seen Finding Nemo - after I saw this darned fish I kept singing "just keep swimming, just keep swimming...(only sometimes in my head, for I couldn't be the only one annoyed by this mantra going through my brain!))

That's a fish! It almost looked like it was made of corduroy.

I loved how this gator was just resting his head on the turtle


Star Wars fans - does this remind you of anyone?

Feeding the larakeets again - unfortunately there were more people than birds so the birds had already had their fill. All but this little one that kept getting chased off.

They had some really cool jellyfish there

Believe it or not, these are jellyfish too!

They're called upside down jellyfish.

I imagine they pack a pretty powerful punch - I'd want to get a closer look at them if I were out snorkeling because they're so pretty.

This is not the time-release effects of my camera - the tentacles on these things really were that long!

The kids playing with jellyfish - they would scatter when they got close to your shadow, so of course the kids would get close and then try to whack one of them.

Watching the penguins with Grandma

We really enjoyed seeing all the different animals and fish at the aquarium. We could have spent hours more there just sitting and staring at a tank at a time.