A couple of weeks ago Aunt Erin took Landon, Lucas, Steve and I to the Living Planet Aquarium here in Sandy as a special treat. Her friend Mel works at the aquarium and so we were able to get the behind the scene tour as well as the regular tour. 
One of the first places we went behind the scenes was the tank that had the sharks in it. It was sort of scary holding Landon while looking down into the tank - I just thought for sure I was going to drop him but luckily that did not happen. We also got to see and touch the octopus which at first Lucas was not real keen on but he finally worked up the courage and went up the ladder for a closer look.
One of my favorite exhibits is the frogs - I love the bright blue and yellow frogs. They almost don't even look real. Steve, Erin and I got to touch the sting rays and after some time Lucas was able to get his arm down in the tank enough to touch one as well. Landon's arms were not long enough but he still enjoyed playing in the water. 
We got to see the newest exhibit - the penguins which was cool as well.
At one point during our tour Mel went to the back and brought out a snake for the boys to see. They were both brave enough to touch the snake which really surprised me. Lucas was so proud of himself.
Towards the end of our tour we went to one of the back rooms where they had lots of cages of different animals that were not on display. The boys got to touch yet another snake and they saw tarantulas, Madagascar Cock Roaches and a few other things we can't recall. ;) Last but not least it was off to see the birds. There were approximately 7 birds - parrots, toucans and something else. Some of the birds did little dances for us and one bird kept saying "cereal". To this day Landon will start talking about the bird who kept saying "cereal". The boys really enjoyed the entire visit which would not have been half as fun without Aunt Erin and Mel.
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