Aquarium

I see I have you all convinced I'm having a girl - 10 to 3! We're all in big trouble with this kid if he's a boy. :)

I have been meaning to catch up on my blog for a long time, but I've been too lazy. The only reason I finally am is because my sister-in-law, who has 2 kids (one of which is a newborn) has started updating her blog every day and has made me feel totally guilty for my serious lack of posting (thanks a lot Lindsey - hehe). And no, I'm not going to start updating every day. I'm just going to catch up.

So over the summer, Lindsey, Connor and Graham (and eventually Audrey when she was born) were living with Dan and Kippy while Con did an internship here in Denver. Karly LOVED having Graham here to play with - Grandma and a cousin to play with everytime we were at Grandma's house? Yay!

One day, we went to the aquarium in downtown Denver. I'm not sure if it was the dark tunnels or what, but Karly didn't really love most of it. She wanted to be held the whole time and was kind of whiny. Good thing she was free! :) Here are a few pictures of parts she did like.

Okay so it looks like I took 4 pictures in the actual aquarium and 1 of them didn't even have Karly in it. My photog skillz really need some work. And look at this: the 2 "good" pictures of Karly include turtles. She does love turtles, so I guess that makes sense.

Don't ask me why, but for some reason, they had tigers at the aquarium. I think that was everyone's favorite part (maybe we're more zoo people?). You need to watch this video - you have to wait to see anything good until about 20 seconds, but then it's pretty cool. And listen at about 30 seconds for Karly's laugh. 

Is it weird that my child thinks violence is funny? :) 

Karly and Graham's favorite part of the whole aquarium was the bouncy house OUTSIDE. Funny kids. Luckily for them, we had TONS of time to spend there (see below).

So, I'm sure many of you are bored of this post, but I had to share a fun little incident we had on the way to (and after) the aquarium. Kippy and Lindsey were in their car and I took my car. Our timing apparently wasn't good because we got stuck in major traffic on the way there. We were in nearly standstill traffic for like 30 minutes in 96 degree weather. While we were sitting there, my car started smoking (did I mention we were in the middle of interstate traffic?). I freaked out for a second and then in stopped smoking. Everything was still running, but the temp gauge was above the red. Did you know that's a gauge I don't think I have ever looked at in my car? So anyway, about then, traffic started moving again, so we decided to drive the 2 short miles we had left to the aquarium and then see what was wrong. I opened the hood in the parking lot and there was green liquid stuff all over everything under the hood. I know nothing about cars, but those of you who do probably know that was coolant. Nate and Dan decided to come down and see what had happened. Turns out the radiator exploded (so to speak), so we called a tow truck and waited like 2 hours (maybe 3?) for it to get there and drive it to our mechanic. Many thanks to Dan and Kippy for taking Karly with them as I'm sure she would have had a few meltdowns had she had to wait with us. Anyway, $500+ later, the car is running great! Though I do avoid really hot times of day. And traffic. And downtown. :)