Oregon Coast III- Aquarium in Newport

Thursday night Rachel's grandparent's dropped her off, so we were excited to get to hang out with her for a few days and have some fun at the coast. We woke up Friday morning and headed to beach to do a little sand dollar hunting. Zoe had success- I think that kid has x-ray vision. Anyways, after the beach we headed over to a brew pub and had some lunch with everyone and then drove about an hour into Newport to go to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. It was fantastic. We all loved it. They had seals, otters, an octopus, and all sorts of other really cool exhibits. If you find yourself over in that neck of the woods we all highly recommend it, especially if you have kids.

The girls hunting for sand dollars

Look at all those piggies

My lover and me at the Pelican Brewery, waiting for all the rest to join us

nana and papa waiting to get their grub

The girls all hanging around, waiting for all of our food

Finally at the aquarium, me and the girls looking at seals

There was an octopus in this tank- it's in the back corner. They are quite the creature. I can't believe people eat them..ick

This fish was swimming around with one eye. It was chilling right by the front of the tank.

Bella looking through the glass bottom floor...you like my finer in the picture?? :P

I like this picture. Look how big the jaws of that shark are....

They had the best kids area. This was a little cannery type set up with a fish market. They loved loved LOVED this area.

Zoe being the cashier at the fish market

The whole crew

Bella the scuba diver

Rachel the shark

Zoe the penguin

and Louis...the CRAB :)

seahorses!!!

this is such a awesome picture of the jellyfish. its amazing what a phone camera can do these days

starfish are carnivores...totally weird....we have fed our kids to a bunch of animals

puffins and a few other kinds of birds that I cant remember

Zoe had decided to cruise off and check out whatever she wanted to so nana had to go retrieve her. I like this picture a lot but it needs Zo.. it probably would have been the best family picture we have so far...lame

This otter was super cute. He was eating clams