Ever since Eric’s parents bought a condo in Virginia Beach last year, I’ve been begging to visit the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center. I had been there for field trips when I was in school, but I hadn’t been back in over ten years despite telling Eric that I love it every time that we passed signs for it on I-64. Specifically, the nature trail between the aquarium and the marsh pavilion has remained in my memory a special place.

He finally took me to the aquarium this past January.

This was Dash’s first trip to Virginia Beach (although we never did go down to the sand), as well as his first time to a museum or an aquarium. I think that I had way more fun than he did, though. He ended up sleeping in his stroller most of the afternoon.

The aviary was especially exciting, and not just in an Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds kind of way. We saw two birds fighting in a pond while the other birds spectated.

We also saw some adorable otters, all kinds of frogs and snakes, a few turtles, a pair of hedgehogs (they were married), and a komodo dragon.

We also saw a pretty spectacular stalk of seahorses, and I thought that these fishy guys were pretty bizarre. Supposedly, everything at the Virginia Aquarium is native to the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding waters!

Of course, we also saw sharks and sting rays and all kinds of crazy fish.

And we saw these groovy jelly fish in a tank under colored lights.

Oh, and I almost got devoured by a shark, but Eric saved me. No biggie!

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