The Viehwegs: Ocean Fun...no, we didn't go to the beach

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Ocean Fun...no, we didn't go to the beach

Yesterday we went to the Albuquerque Aquarium. It was a lot of fun, we have also been to the Seattle Aquarium and I liked this one just as much. We bought a family pass so Keegan and I can go back when Josh is working. Yay!! When we got there it was feeding time. We got to see a lady in and open tank feeding some smaller rays, and then when we got to the big tank it was feeding time in there too. So much fun to watch.

The puffer fish was HUGE, I would say he was as long as Keegan is tall. And he always swam with his mouth open, kinda strange

Here is Keegan in front of the 1st big tank.

They have a model ship room, and then this big Captains Wheel. Keegs can't even see where he is taking us.

A sea turtle, all I could think about was... "Dude and then I was like Dude".... from Finding Nemo

A portal into the big tank

When I wanted him to look into the tank so that I could get a pic from the back he kept turning around and saying "Cheese"

The big tank at the end had the Biggest rays in it. This one was over 6 feet long (just a guess) but he was huge

Ahoy Matey!!

Here he is again, such a big ray. Keegan says that they are flying in the water. The guy in there was feeding the rays. It was a lot of fun to watch!! There are also sharks in there, I am not sure I would be in there during feeding time.

They have some smaller tanks as well, this one had a few Sea Horses. There were even little baby ones in there too.

Ooops Back to feeding time.

Well, there it is. Sorry they seem out of order, some of them are, and some are because Keegan kept running back and forth from tank to tank we saw it all more than once.

I think one of my favorite parts was the Jelly fish tank. They are so calm, they just bob along, so relaxing to watch.

Keegan says that his favorite part was the "fishy tunnel" it has a walkway where you are going through the tank in a tunnel.

Josh isn't sure that he had a favorite part. He is either really indifferent or he liked it all. I think he liked it all.

We can't wait to take Uncle Jon and Aunt Jace in a couple of weeks!!

5 comments:

Leavitt's said...: Dude...and then I was like Dude...that looks like fun. The aquarium in Sandy is kinda lame; May 13, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Ashley Armstrong said...: Great pictures! Maren LOVES going to the Denver Aquarium and I think the exact same thing whenever I see the turtles!; May 13, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Jacey said...: I chuckled out loud about the turtles, because that was my first thought too. I'm excited to see this aquarium for myself! No offense, but Spokane didn't offer too many outdoor adventures, so I'm looking forward to sunny, warm weather and doing a little more than just watching the boys play video games with their home-made headbands!; May 14, 2009 at 7:07 AM
The Viehweg's said...: Jacey, we are excited to be able to do more too. But, don't knock the home-made headbands. Lol. The zoo is pretty fun too, and as for the sun, it is always out and the pool is open and ready!!; May 14, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Brittany said...: I love those tunnel pictures! So cute. It looks like a fun place.; May 14, 2009 at 8:38 PM

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*Keegan* Funnies

"Mom, do you know how I see things? There are little guys in my head taking pictures of what I'm looking at and then they send them to my brain"

Early this morning Keegan came running out of his room with a shoe in his had and yelled "MOM there's a bug in my pants!!" I asked "there's a bug in your pants?" He responded, "not these pants, the ones on my floor, I saw it, and thought it was a running arrow, but it's a bug"

Uncle Jon works at the Costco that George Bush was doing a book signing at. Keegan was talking to Jon on the phone and I told Keegan to ask Jon if he saw President Bush. Keegan quickly ask "Jon, did you see a president in a bush?"

He's been saying this for a while now but it still makes me laugh. If you say to him "You don't say" he ALWAYS responds with "OH, I'll say alright!"

Today Keegan told me "Watch out mommy, I'm coming in hot" he then jumped from the coffee table to the couch. When I asked him if he even knew what that meant and he told me "it means I'm going really fast and it will be hard to stop"

When I was unsure of the pool temp he didn't hesitate and jumped in. When he saw that I was still standing on the side he said "jump in mommy, it's refreshing"

Keegan and his best bud had a bit of a disagreement and Keegs ended up with a 1 inch gash in his head. (He's fine) But when I asked him if he was mad at Evan he replied "No, but he sure was mad at me!"

Not a "funny" but just a note, while we were in Mexico Keegan learned to say his "K" and "C's". So he no longer calls himself "Teenan" and Koda is no longer "Toda" It was such a shock to hear him ask us how was "MexiCO" not "MexiTo"

I have resorted to washing Keegans mouth out with a tiny bit of soap when he argues. Afterwards I was talking to him explaining that arguing isn't good and that the soap tastes yucky right?? He looked at me and said "Well, it doesn't taste GOOD"!!

The other day Keegan fell out of my mom's really tall truck. When he was asked if he got hurt on the truck he said, "No, it was the ground that hurt me"!

**Warning, not really funny, but still so funny at the time, maybe shocking is the right word**

Keegan dropped the "F" bomb today, totally random and so unlike him that I didn't believe he actually said what I thought he did. I actually made him say it again to see if heard him right. So despite me and Josh laughing we had to tell him it wasn't funny and that if he ever said it again he would go to time out for a long long time.

He got a watch for Christmas, if you ask him what time it is he often says "here, you look at it" It is a digital watch and will read the #'s individually if there is a 3 anywhere in the time he thinks they are E's So the other day it was 4 "E"7

Josh was helping him put on the ONLY pair of pants that actually fit and don't fall down. Keegan doesn't unsnap the snap and was struggling to get them over his keester so he said "my butt is too big" If you have actually seen Keegan you know that is NOT the case.

He often asks me how fast different animals can run, he usually wants me to tell him if it is faster or slower than Koda.

I told Keegan his drawers were falling down, he turned to me and said "What???? my drawers???" he then immediately ran upstairs and pushed in his dresser drawers.

Keegan asked if Grandpa Dan was up in heaven? I told him yes. He asked if he was up in the stars and clouds? I said yes. He then asked, when he is done in his rocket can he come back down?

Keegan got to meet Elmo at Sea World, he ran up and gave him a huge hug. Afterward he told me that "I gave Elmo a hug and didn't even poke him in the eye"

When his finger nails get to long he tells me he has "girl nails"

While on vacation, he asked if we were going to the beach that day, I told him "No we are going to Sea World today" he started to cry and then told me he didn't wan't to go to Sea World that he wanted to go to Wal-Mart.

While out one day a little girl called to her mommy and Keegan turned to me and said "Mommy she said your name"

I had asked Keegan for another kiss this morning and he replied "Nope, only one kiss today."

"Mom, there is something in my flip-flop!!" I ask, what is it? Get it out. He replies "my foot"

"Pa" is going pee, but he doesn't need my step stool betause he is very tall."