Saturday, August 20, 2011

Sea creatures and a movie

Chuck was working a shift today/night, and I had the kids, so this evening I decided to get them out of the house and into something different than we usually do. After dinner we packed a bag of blankets, some Reese's, M&M's sodas and juice packs and made our way to our local park thinking they were showing The Wizard of Oz as an outdoor movie tonight. I had never been, and thought it would be fun.

Turns out I missed it by a night. So we came back to the house, looked up outdoor movies on the ol' Internets and found another one at a park in Gig Harbor. This one was Oceans, a Disney movie.
You can see more about it here.

It was a bit slow for kids, but so beautiful. These kids were pretty attentive, and Sean is all about animals and sea creatures. He knew what most of them were before the narrator could begin to talk about them. Some we had never heard of, and that is always fun.

Afterward, a group called Harbor Wild Watch shared a little touch tank action with sea stars, crabs and such, and there were lights in the bay just off the public pier. The sea critters get curious about the lights and we got to see a few fish and lots of tiny jellyfish. I was hoping for something more exotic, like a squid or eel, but of course we've seen those before.


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