Aiden Meets A Shark At The Newport Aquarium
Chrissy didn’t want to spend the entire weekend waiting for me to get out of the Botcon dealer room, so we planned to go to the Cincinnati Zoo for a few hours on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, it was cold and rainy that day. So we decided to drive across the river into Kentucky to visit the Newport Aquarium instead. We showed up a little early, so we hung out in the area and took some pictures. Once we got inside, we found that there was plenty of stuff to see and do.
Early on in the aquarium tour, they had small pools of water, each with a horseshoe crab that people could walk up to and see. Aiden got to touch one of the horseshoe crabs, but he didn’t like it very much. Chrissy turned one over and was freaked out by its wiggling legs. There was also an aviary where the birds would fly over to you. Chrissy was jumped by a lorikeet, which was funny. She managed to get it to land in her hand. Aiden loves to watch fish swim around, so he really enjoyed the aquarium.
And we found out that Aiden is afraid of sharks, especially ones that have lots of teeth that are a foot away from your head. The aquarium had many glass tunnels that allowed the fish to swim over and around you as you walked through them. The last tunnel had huge sharks. One of them snuck up behind Aiden, and he turned around just in time to see the shark up close and personal. We’ve never seen him jump so high. We also had a chance to touch some sharks at “Shark Central”, but they were much smaller and friendlier.
We had a good time at the Newport Aquarium. It was a smaller version of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, where we usually go to see fish outside of Red Lobster. We were the first ones in, so we didn’t have to fight through the crowd of first graders that entered behind us. We bought Aiden a hairy turtle and some other souvenirs on the way out, and then headed back to Cincinnati to continue our weekend.
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Aww, shame Aiden didn’t like the sharks, but then again I can’t exactly blame him!