Georgia Aquarium

Saturday, my mom, Ryder, and I drove down to Atlanta to meet Jessi and sadly give back Riley :(. We met at the Aquarium and had THE B-E-S-T time!! It was absolutely amazing and Eric and I are aleady planning our trip back because it was so awesome! Right when we got there we went straight to the AT&T Dolphon Tales show. It is in an 80,000 square foot arena and holds over 1000 people! It's basically like sea world but with only dolphins. Ryder was just in awe it was so cute! They jumped up in the air, did flips, threw the trainers in the air, and did all sorts of neat tricks. We weren't allowed to take pictures in the arena but here is a little video you can watch to see what I am talking about..

This was Ryder eating a snack and waiting for the show to start, he kept squeezing his fists together and smiling and giggling he was SOO excited!!

After we left the arena, they move all of the dolphins to a huge glass tank where you can go see them while your leaving, Ryder was just in awe. It was really neat!

Then we headed to the rest of the HUGE aquarium. Ryder and Riley were just in heave and I had a blast and saw a ton of animals I had never seen before! Here are alot of pictures from our fun day! (sorry bad phone camera pictures- I knew carrying around my good camera AND Ryder would be exhausting and I was right!) 

We got to see them feeding and teaching an otter to go up stairs, it was really cool!

This tank was so huge, this picture just doesn't do it justice! They had 4 Whalesharks in this tank along with tons and tons of other big fish! After we turned the corner it led to a tank you walk through/ride it was amazing! All of the sharks, and whales, and fish just swim around you while you go through!

It was hard peeling him away to get pictures!

These were the whale sharks!

We also got to touch alot of things, sea urchins, starfish, horshoe crabs, sea anemones, and EVEN SHARKS! Ryder touched a shark! (you don't even have to ask him because he'll tell you as soon as he sees you! ha!) 

All in all these 2 had a TON of fun and they were pretty much inseparable all week! So glad they had time to spend together!!