12/18/2011
The Georgia Aquarium is the world’s largest and the pet project of Bernard Marcus, the founder of Atlanta-based Home Depot. We’re used to these kinds of places being non-profit or government run, so it was a little strange being routinely reminded of the awesomeness of Home Depot (the facility’s mascot is a cartoon clownfish named Deepo), but it’s his money and I suppose Marcus can do what he likes with it.
Naturally, the kids loved everything. Kathleen was riveted. The boys especially liked the moving walkway that slowly moved them under a transparent tunnel filled with hundreds of species.
After we had seen all the live exhibits we were suckered into the 3D movie. We were the only people at that particular viewing, which was probably a good thing. This was the first time any of the kids had been in a movie theatre and we weren’t sure how they would behave. Incidentally, Laura and I have never seen a 3D movie – even though they’re the hip thing now.
The movie was only 15 minutes and the sort of thing where they spray water at you and shoot bursts of air at appropriate times. Philip was terrified out of his mind, but Daniel couldn’t stop talking about it afterwards.
Your baby kind of looks like Kim Jong Il.
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