Downtown Aquarium

Houston has a pretty cool, but somewhat small aquarium that is downtown. It is really expensive to go to, unless you go with a field trip and then it is quite reasonably priced. Fortunately, one of our friends who is a preschool teacher set up a field trip for us to go on. She planned it on a day that was a holiday for all of the kids from school, so everyone could go. Unfortunately, it was cold that day, so we all bundled up and went.

You get to walk through some really well done aquariums. The fish that I am most fascinated by were the sea horses, but there were also several tanks with turtles in them that Adam liked to look at, and an alligator that was moving around a lot.

They had a room in which the kids could touch stingrays, urchins and some type of sand shark.

At the aquarium is also a tiger, of course, because tigers are often found in aquariums.

The aquarium also has a large shark tank. You ride a train into a building and that tank surrounds you like a tunnel. It is really cool. The kids really enjoyed the train ride.

There are a lot of sharks in the tank and it is really neat to see them swimming around.

We went twice. The second time Ellie wanted to sit all by herself. The boys wanted to be at the back of the train the whole time so I let them.

Since our friend set up the field trip, there were a lot of the kids friends there to see and interact with.

We also rode the carousel, but this year we skipped the Ferris wheel. Adam was sure there was no way he was going to get on the Ferris wheel.

I hope we do it again next year!