Aquarena Adventure

I blog this while baby boy hiccups happily in my belly.
Today the kids and I drove to the Aquarena Center in San Marcos for a glass-bottom boat tour. I got the idea from the Texas Nature Challenge, and thought it looked fun. We even drove straight there, more or less.
This was the first attraction of the park: a tree. I think the kids were just excited to be out of the car.

Caleb doesn't really like trees. He just wanted to be in the picture.
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We purchased our tickets and headed out to the boat. Here is an excited Emily:

Boarding the boat:

Can you tell by this overdocumentation that I was proud of myself for doing this without Joseph? I have to admit, I was nervous.

And finally, inside the boat.

Em spent most of her time looking through the boat floor.

Caleb spent most of his time hanging out the windows. He liked that there was no glass.

El spent most of her time sitting and being curious.

 

 Right when the kids started asking when the boat ride would be over we got back to the dock. We spent some time in the museum answering our Nature Challenge questions.

I tell Emily to smile for pictures and she says she is. To me, she does not look excited here. She is the only child that would stand still long enough for a picture though, so she gets points for that.

When we got home we filled out Emily and Caleb's Adventure journals. Emily is such a sweet, earnest girl. I love the effort she puts in to projects like these. She was distraught when she realized her turtle picture was upside-down. The green, she explained, is not scribble-scrabble; it is all of the green plants that grew under the water.

 Caleb was super grumpy when we sat down to do his. He insisted he went on the boat ride by himself and that it was snowing. He also was sure he had seen a hippopotamus and heard octopus noises.

All in all, a satisfying day.