Fish and Flowers

Albuquerque has a very cool area that they call the Albuquerque Biological Park which consists of the zoo, an aquarium and botanical garden all connected by a little train. We love it so much that we got a season pass for it! We had already been to the zoo so we decided to go to the aquarium and botanical garden. The aquarium is small but not as small as the one in Utah. The kids had a great time despite the size. :)

 

Liv trying to get picture of the baby halibut that are buried in the sand.

This giant puffer loved the kids. He would swim right up to the glass and open his mouth really wide. I guess they looked tasty to him. ;)

They have 2 sea turtles that they hand feed every day. It is so fun to watch. They are so graceful and peaceful.

When we were done at the aquarium we headed over to the botanical garden. I didn't know what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. There was a "castle" that when you walked into you were "mini" meaning that everything inside was actually giant sized. The kids had so much fun running around inside there was even a slide and a maze. We had so much fun and plan on spending a lot of time there during the summer.

This is the kids standing by the dragon the guards the entrance to the castle.

There was a giant garden inside the castle. There were all different kinds of veggies you could play on.

This is inside the giant pumpkin. It was very real looking inside with seeds and strings hanging from the roof.

The slide went through a giant log. We could have spent way more time here but there was a lot more to see and do.

So oddly enough Harris is terrified of ants. Fire ants to be specific. We had to really coax him to get near this thing. He was quick to jump away when we were done taking the picture. It's funny the things kids are scared of. Liv was afraid of flys!

It was a wonderful day and so far I am really enjoying all that ABQ has to offer. Hopefully we get to have lots of visitors to share all this with. :)