Exploring Dallas

So bummer no trip this weekend.  American could not get Josh's information in the system in time so instead we decided to spend the weekend exploring Dallas a little bit more.  Helen and Bob have two bikes that we love to go riding around on which is what we did a good part of Friday.  Saturday was our adventure day.  First thing in the morning we went to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.  It was really cool.  They had a lot of hands on modules for you to play around with.  They had different experiments you could try and an actual cell lab!

My favorite part was next when we went to the Dallas World Aquarium.  We were debating between here and the zoo but heard this was superior and it sure was something else!  You walk up and down different floors of wild real animals amongst all the plants.  It is incredible.  So many plants my allergies started going haywire and I am still trying to recover.  And losing the battle!  But anyways it was incredible the way they set it up and Josh and I decided we like seeing real animals more than just the fossils, not that the fossils at the science museum weren't cool.

This creepy bird was right when you came into the aquarium.  He was HUGE! and
came right up next to the fence by you!

They had all different kinds of exotic birds from every color of the rainbow.  We even got to feed one.  When I fed him he took the blueberry right away but when Josh tried he kept biting his thumb!  They had the animals up close right next to you even a sloth outside of a cage just hanging above your head.  We saw all kinds of fish, monkeys, alligators and snakes!  We watched an anaconda while he was eating a giant ginny pig - gave me the creeps!  We saw this beautiful python right up on the glass next to us.  The aquarium was by far one of my favorite things to see in Dallas so far, a definite must!

The shark tunnel!

cutest little panther he was still a cub!

After the aquarium we went to our wards annual craw fish boil!  Apparently a few couples in our ward went to med school in New Orleans and have brought back craw fish every year to boil.  They were DELICIOUS!  Josh was the one to crack and peel them all I thought they were creepy with their beady little eyes looking at you it would have ruined my appetite so he did all the grunge work!  It was great.  Our ward is extremely friendly and outgoing it was fun to get to know more people at the dinner!  It is a really young ward we are among quite a few young couples who always reach out to us and introduce themselves.  Bob brought an entire pig to the dinner - like the gross kind you see on a skewer over the fire on TV.  An entire pig!  Apparently his friends from Lithuania brought it to him.  So delicious!  It was an awesome weekend but we can't wait until we get to start traveling!