Memorial Day Weekend

Mark decided to take off the Thursday and Friday before Memorial Day giving him a nice long five day mini-vacation. So we decided to get out there and try some family "firsts" over the long weekend. On Thursday we headed to Baltimore to the National Aquarium. It was such a great experience for Mark, I mean all of us. Jackson had so much fun running around looking at all the fish. He would get right up next to the glass and say, "Hi fish, hi fish, hi!" However, he absolutely did not like the shark exhibit. It was dark and with all those sharp toothed sharks swimming around and around, he quickly grabbed dad's hand and was pulling him out of there! I really don't blame the little guy. Then he discovered turtles!! From there on out he was on a quest to find every tur-tle in the place!

Daddy, where are all the turtles?


Still looking for turtles . . .


After much searching, he finally hit the tur-tle jackpot!


We also had tickets to go see the Dolphin Show. Of course Mark insisted we sit in the Splash Zone! It was amazing to watch those dolphins swim and jump with such ease and grace. We all just watched in awe! After eating a "quick" lunch at Hard Rock (boy, doesn't that bring back visions of your first Hard Rock t-shirt) we headed back home. Jackson ended the day with a nap all the way back to DC. He was definitely worn out from that long vigorous turtle hunt.

To be continued . . . .